1788 VT 1/2P Georgivs III Rex, RR-31, BN MS(PCGS#687737)

November 2025 Showcase Auction U.S. Coins

Auctioneer

Stack's Bowers

Lot Number

4394

Grade

VF20BN

Price

1,140

Lot Description

118.4 grains. Tan devices contrast pleasantly with darker brown fields. A bit grainy, and showing some encrustation and verdigris. The centering is very good, ideal on the obverse but leaving the bottoms of the date digits and the tops of LIB off the flan on the reverse. The centers are stronger than usually encountered, with a bold enough strike to obliterate the divot usually seen at the central reverse on this variety. Distinctive and popular, the RR-31's obverse legends makes plain the connection between the Vermont subcontract with Machin's Mills and the counterfeiting activity conducted at that Newburgh, New York mint. This one is both sharper and nicer than most.