1788 CT 1/2P Mailed Bust Right, BN MS(PCGS#397)

The November 2012 Baltimore Auction

Auctioneer

Stack's Bowers

Lot Number

6524

Grade

F12BN

Price

18

Lot Description

1788 Connecticut Copper. Unattributable. Mailed Bust Right--Overstruck on a Nova Constellatio Copper--Fine-12 Heavily Corroded. 85.8 grains. A rough deep olive-brown specimen with uniform crumbling of the surfaces and green-white patination in the deepest design recesses. The Connecticut copper details are plain though weak -- a true devotee of the series may be able to come up with a Miller attribution though no doubt with some difficulty. Host coin wreath around the seated figure of Liberty on the reverse. PCGS# 397.