 1787 Connecticut copper. MBL. Hercules head. M.7-I. R-6. Choice Very Fine. A superior specimen and the second best seen after the Oechsner coin. 126.4 gns. Pale steel gray and brown in color on both sides with a faint hint of iridescent blue. Centers very soft and indistinct as usually seen, the effigy's face with essentially no detail left, the center of Liberty's figure showing only the original planchet surface. Struck a little off center to the lower left with a raised rim at the upper right on the obverse; reverse die apparently too wide for the planchet, the tops of 'DE' completely off the flan, tops of 'IN' run to and just off the edge. Some light hairlines, reverse rim very ragged at the upper right. Described on its collector's ticket as ''Hercules head. weak in center. very good.''
Ex Harlan Page Smith Collection (S.H. & H. Chapman, May 8, 1906, lot 102). Square collector's ticket accompanies the lot.
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