1787 CT 1/2P Mailed Bust Left, M 13-D, BN MS(PCGS#686369)

November 2019 Baltimore Colonial Coins and Americana Auction

Auctioneer

Stack's Bowers

Lot Number

5141

Grade

F12BN

Price

840

Lot Description

1787 Connecticut Copper. Miller 13-D, W-2890. Rarity-2. Mailed Bust Left, Childish Face—Triple Struck—Fine-12 (PCGS). 105.7 grains. Described lovingly in its first auction appearance as an “Extraordinary mint error: first struck simultaneously with another blank which covered profile and AUCTORI, then the second blank [i.e. coin] was brushed away and the coin was given a second blow from the dies, about 7/8 off-center in K-7 so that only top of head, C and part of O show. Reverse is double struck much less conspicuously, mostly at head and bust of Miss Connecticut of 1787.” The obverse may also have shown signs of the third strike, now possibly obscured by parched river bed-like planchet flaws across the obverse of this reddish brown and tan coin. A complex and fantastic error coin. Provenance: From the Robert M. Martin Collection. Ex Pine Tree Auction Company’s Promised Lands Sale, April 30, 1974, lot 258; Bowers and Merena’s Sale of the Milton G. Cohen Collection, January 24-26, 1985. PCGS #349 and #686369. Click here for certification details from PCGS.