1787 New Jersey Copper. Maris 34-J (R-3). Late Rahway or Elizabethtown Mint. 146.7 gns. About Very Fine. The obverse is hard and glossy in the apple green and chestnut brown fields, with some pitting towards 12:00. The reverse exhibits more advanced porosity. Overstruck on an undetermined host, causing an oblong stretching of the coin. Struck from the late, severely broken state of the obverse die.
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