1787 CT 1/2P Laughing Head, Miller 6.2-M, BN MS(PCGS#686409)
1787 CT 1/2P Laughing Head, Miller 6.2-M, BN MS (PCGS#686409)
August 2023 Global Showcase Auction U.S. Coins
- 拍卖行
- Stack's Bowers
- 批号
- 8251
- 等级
- AU50
- 价格
- 13,981
- 详细说明
- Choice Second Laughing HeadCopper 1787 Connecticut Copper. Miller 6.2-M, W-2825. Rarity-5-. Mailed Bust Left, Laughing Head. AU-50 (PCGS). 121.2 grains. Rich medium brown with mild chestnut tones. A trace of minor granularity is detected upon close study, but the overall appearance is of hard and glossy surfaces. Well struck with fairly nice detail throughout, though some natural planchet roughness around the reverse rim has likely contributed to a bit of weakness at the outer peripheries. The scarcer of the Laughing Head varieties, and modern researchers have raised the rarity rating a bit from the R-4 this was called in the 2000 Perkins sale. At that time, this coin was noted as "possible Condition Census" with a comment that it was finer than the Taylor, Oechsner and Hessberg coins. Some other good ones have appeared to challenge the overall quality of this one, including in Collection SLT (though graded lower), Robert Martin:5124 and Twin Leaf:8142. That said, neither Newman nor Partrick (ex Oechsner) had a coin convincingly as nice as this. Provenance: From the Sydney F. Martin Collection. Earlier from Heritage, directly, September 1987; our (Stack's) sale of the George C. Perkins Collection, January 2000, lot 264; Heritage's sale of May 2003, lot 5049 (without provenance); Anthony Terranova; the Lawrence R. Stack Collection, November 2006. To view supplemental information and all items from the Sydney F. Martin Collection, click here. PCGS# 686409. Click here for certification details from PCGS. Image with the PCGS TrueView logo is obtained from and is subject to a license agreement with Collectors Universe, Inc. and its divisions PCGS and PSA.