1787 Connecticut Cent! Wow, Miller 33.23-hh.2, possible R6+! Lotta detail, but old corrosion too. Maybe around 20 exist??14 Day return privilege.Open to offers on all my coins! First time I\'ve been able to see inside all the little ovals that make up the 5-point cinquefoil just in front of the forehead.
Bob
More Info: Often comes poorly struck.A very rare variety, called High R-6 in Perkins, and one that has nearly held up its rarity level, with Robert Martin noting just 17 examples in all grades in his database, dropping it to a solid R-6 here on the presumption that are a few out there that have not been recorded, though it could well end up a High R-6 still.The Norweb-Perkins piece, a nice EF which had areas of weakness, brought $4,025 to an advanced collector of the series and was called High Condition Census.The Taylor piece was a nice EF, the Dr. Hall-Hessberg coin was a VF/EF, later appearing in Stack’s March, 1994 sale, and there was a Choice VF in the EAC ’75 sale.After that the census drops to a small number of VF’s, including the 1998 C4 sale piece (at $1,430!), the Lindesmith coin sold in Bowers and Merena’s November, 1999 sale and the John J. Ford, Jr. coin sold by Stack’s in May, 2005, which was a pleasing specimen overall and realized $3,220 to a dealer.No example of the variety appeared in the Jesse Patrick sale. Bowers also mentions a rough VF sold at a Stack\'s sale in 2005 for $3200!
Copper coins were struck in Connecticut beginning in 1785 and continuing through 1788. Connecticut coppers have the most complex minting history of allcolonial issues. There are more than 355 die combinations, with at least 126type varieties having 26 distinct bust styles made by at least six differentmints. The year 1787 has 241 varieties. Yet, the basic design of theConnecticut Coppers never changed; all issues imitated the British halfpenny!These were struck with primitive technology by people who didn\'t know what theywere doing, and thus they cannot be graded the same as products from a well‐run and experienced mint.Planchet flaws, weak strike, late die states and the like are the rule, not theexception. The most common Connecticut copper is 1000x rarer than a 1909-S V.D.B. cent and rarer than therarest Morgan Dollar!
