August 2024 Global Showcase Auction – 12 - 23 August 2024
Ancient and World Coins and Currency
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Description
1787 Connecticut Copper. Miller 56-XX, W-4340. Rarity-7-. Draped Bust Left. AG Details--Environmental Damage (PCGS).
126.0 grains. Uniform medium brown with shallow striated roughness and a few deeper voids scattered about. Upon first glance, this looks to be porosity, but closer study strongly suggests that this was a flawed planchet. Some light porosity is certainly present in the recesses, but it is not severe. The legend is almost entirely visible, though parts of INDE are lost to a combination of wear and the advanced state of the dies that have caused aggressive sinking through the centers on both sides. Centrally weak as a result. Flawed and far from sharp, but also very rare. This variety was first published in 1928, with updates by a subsequent owner of the discovery coin in 1952, and then a more thorough discussion published in the March 1964 Colonial Newsletter. At the time, there were just two specimens known, the discovery coin and the Frederick Canfield coin at the ANS, which is much lower grade than this. Further publishing on the matter presented conflicting opinions as to the nature of this reverse identity (some attributed it to the RR reverse, including the 2020 Heritage offering of the Taylor-Partrick coin) but Clark has clarified this as the XX reverse.
PCGS# 918320.
From the Sydney F. Martin Collection. Earlier acquired unattributed, April 2003, Lancaster, PA; Christopher B. Young, April 2003.
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| Price realized | 1'200 USD |
| Starting price | 1 USD |
| Estimate | 1'500 USD |
