1788 CT 1/2P Mailed Bust Right, BN MS (PCGS#397)
The November 2012 Baltimore Auction
- 拍卖行
- Stack's Bowers
- 批号
- 6053
- 等级
- XF45BN
- 价格
- 62,277
- 详细说明
- Overstruck 1788 Miller 5-B.2 Connecticut Copper
The 1975 EAC Sale Coin
1788 Connecticut Copper. Miller 5-B.2, W-4440. Rarity-5-. Mailed Bust Right--Overstruck on a 1785 Nova Constellatio Copper--EF-45 (PCGS).
117.6 grains. Called "possibly finest known" and "unquestionably one of the finest known of this rarity" by Walter Breen in 1975. Very nice medium brown and steel with exceptional detail and very little actual wear. Boldly overstruck on a Crosby 5-E Nova Constellatio, with details of the undercoin abundant on both sides. Obverse aligned to 1 o'clock, reverse to 5 o'clock. Notably problem free, just a great looking coin. The Boyd-Ford coin was the Miller plate and Miller collection coin; it was a lustrous Unc, and Breen undoubtedly knew about it when he cataloged this coin. The Perkins sale suggested two other coins in the AU range and another EF, which makes this piece Condition Census however you slice it. The story it tells is an important one: of underweight Nova Constellatios being imported into the New York area and valued relatively lower that Connecticuts, thereby making it profitable to take Novas and use them as planchets for a "Connecticut copper" struck extralegally at Machin's Mills. This piece makes a truly remarkable visual impression.
PCGS# 397.
Provenance: From the John "Jack" Royse Collection. Earlier from Pine Tree's 1975 EAC Sale, February 1975, lot 290. Lot tag included.
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