 1788 Connecticut copper. DBL. M.15.1-L.1. R-3 to R-4. Uncirculated. A superior example and one of the nicest seen. The Miller Plate Coin. The Miller Sale Coin. 112.7 gns. 28.3 x 28.9 mm. Both sides are medium brown in color with a few scattered areas darker. The surfaces appear quite rough to the naked eye, particularly in the center of the obverse and lower right portion of the reverse. Elsewhere original mint lustre can be seen in the protected areas around the letters of the legends and in places in the fields. Struck slightly off center on the obverse to the lower right, the reverse to the extreme right, but the misshapen flan has allowed the letters of the legends on both sides to strike up and be present. The obverse rim flawed at upper left, somewhat more lightly through the center, quite indistinct at upper right, somewhat ragged around; the reverse rim quite misshapen and rough from about 4:00 to 12:00, small planchet cutter clip at about 4:00, quite ragged above 'IN'. Traces of verdigris on both sides, most noticeably on 'ET' on the reverse. Flan cracked in striking from rim on the reverse at about 8:30 in toward Liberty's knee, this noticeable really only under magnification. Tom Elder catalogued this coin as ''Uncirculated, half red''.
Ex Henry C. Miller Collection (Tom Elder, May 29, 1920, lot 2061). Square collector's ticket accompanies the lot.
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