August 2024 Global Showcase Auction – 12 - 23 August 2024
Ancient and World Coins and Currency
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Description
Extremely Rare Miller 49.2-Z.27
The Discovery Coin
1787 Connecticut Copper. Miller 49.2-Z.27, W-4325. Rarity-8-. Draped Bust Left. VG Details--Holed (PCGS).
117.1 grains. Largely caramel brown with some darker mahogany brown patina in some of fields and small areas of superficial oxidation on both sides. A bit granular, but not severely so. Weak at the centers but with full legends all around. The date would also be clear if not for the unfortunate piercing, though this identifies the coin readily as the discovery specimen for the variety. This variety (via this coin) was discovered by Christopher B. Young, and first announced in the Spring 2005 C4 Newsletter, where it was noted to have been peer-examined by Robert Martin and Neil Rothschild. It was more thoroughly written up in the Fall 2007 edition, Volume 15, No. 3. Syd acquired it in May 2005 and later purchased the second example identified, which became the coin in his first-line set. The third known was first published a decade later, in Coin World Online, May 28, 2021, and subsequently sold by us in our Spring 2023 sale. These three coins remain the only known to us for this extremely rare variety.
PCGS# 918319.
From the Sydney F. Martin Collection. Earlier ex Christopher B. Young, May 2005.
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| Price realized | 2'800 USD |
| Starting price | 1 USD |
| Estimate | 6'000 USD |
