1787 Connecticut Copper. Miller 1.1-A, W-2700. Rarity-3. Mailed Bust Right, Small Head, ETLIB INDE. Incomplete Clip. EF-40 (PCGS).

122.8 grains. A superb example boasting olive-brown surfaces of quite some beauty. Well struck and only lightly worn, although called only VF-20 in 1990, the higher EF-40 grade returned by PCGS is more than justified. All details are fully on the flan, though the planchet was not large enough to accommodate the entire run of distinct saw-tooth denticulation on both sides. Miller 1.1-A is collected for a number of reasons - as a variety, as a unique obverse type in the Connecticut series, and for the plethora of its planchet variants. Often seen with small curved clips, this particular specimen boasts an incomplete planchet cutter clip arcing through the lower left obverse and the upper left reverse; this is joined by a V-shaped planchet void at 8 o'clock relative to the obverse and an associated U-shaped depression at the reverse border. Given the softness of the contours of this void, we believe that there was a piece of foreign matter that got stuck on top of the planchet stock when it was being rolled, creating the depression at the edge of the coin visible today. Here is a coin that combines beauty with a unique planchet anomaly and a great provenance.

PCGS# 686401. NGC ID: AVKV.

Ex Hays; Hillyer C. Ryder; F.C.C. Boyd; John J. Ford, Jr.; our (Bowers and Merena's) sale of the Chris Shenkel Collection, November 1990, lot 5378; our (Stack's) New York Americana Sale of January 2011, lot 5898; our sale of the Anderson-Gleckler Collection, November 2016 Baltimore Auction, lot 5223.

Estimate: $750