August 2024 Global Showcase Auction – 12 - 23 August 2024
Ancient and World Coins and Currency
Part B: Mo, 12.08.2024, from 6:00 PM CEST
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Description
1787 Connecticut Copper. Miller 10-E, W-2865. Rarity-5. Mailed Bust Left. VG-10 (PCGS).
185.8 grains. Medium brown with some deeper patina in the fields that nicely accentuates the designs giving them excellent visibility for the overall softness and degree of wear. Reasonably glossy even if microgranular up close. Fairly well centered with a full date. Struck from the late state of the obverse with a prominent break through the letters of AUCTORI, but on a very heavy flan. Clark notes that this variety averages in weight below the authorized 144 grains, with outliers ranging from 117 grains to 186 grains. This might well be the coin referenced at the top end and the heaviest known of the variety. The flan is clearly of substantial thickness.
PCGS# 686416.
From the Sydney F. Martin Collection. Earlier from our (Coin Galleries') sale of April 2000, lot 1709; Jim LaSarre, via John Agre and Dave Wnuck (Coin Rarities Online), June 2006.
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| Price realized | 120 USD |
| Starting price | 1 USD |
| Estimate | 400 USD |
