 1788 Connecticut copper. DBL. M.16.5-H. R-5-. About Uncirculated. A second specimen and one of the best seen by the cataloguer. The Miller Sale Coin. 119.3 gns. Good even olive brown color on both sides. Obverse and reverse surfaces both granular, the obverse rough in the center and at right, the reverse at extreme right and top. Both sides fairly well centered. The obverse rim beveled around from the planchet cutter creating a raised lip around portions of the reverse and which has resulted in some loss of definition particularly at the top and right. Obverse die clearly crumbling and rusting, multiple clash marks visible in the left fields; the reverse breaking up diagonally down from left to right. Described on one of its square collector's tickets (a cut down Henry Chapman envelope) as ''16.6-H* new variety of Obv.'' Could this have been the discovery coin for obverse 16.6? Tom Elder seems to have picked up the earlier comments for his catalogue description of this piece.
Ex Henry C. Miller Collection (Tom Elder, May 29, 1920, lot 2072). Two square collector's tickets accompany the lot.
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