1786 Connecticut Copper. Miller 5.3-N. Hercules Head. Mailed Bust Left. 120.8 gns. Fine. Deep olive brown in tone, with slightly darker hues surrounding the legends and letters. Surfaces are generally smooth, with a touch of microscopic porosity noted under a glass. As with many Hercules Heads, this coin exhibits deep planchet flaws at the obverse center and lower reverse. Struck from the very late state of the reverse die in its single clashed state, before the double clashing seen on Perkins(2000):231. A great coin for the specialist.
Ex Coin Galleries Mail Bid Sale, August 1978, lot 1229.
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