1783 C Nova 1/2P Blunt Rays, BN MS(PCGS#807)

The August 2013 Chicago ANA World's Fair of Money

Commissaire-priseur

Stack's Bowers

Numéro du lot

1225

Grade

XF40

Prix

852

Description du lot

1783 Nova Constellatio Copper. Crosby 3-C, W-1875. CONSTELATIO, Blunt Rays. EF-40 BN (NGC). This ideal Nova Constellatio type coin is very attractive medium brown with a slightly lighter reverse. It is problem free, nicely centered, and well-struck on both sides. Considering the prominence of those who conceived this issue (Robert Morris, Gouverneur Morris, William Constable, et al), the historical importance of the 1783 Nova Constellatio patterns that inspired these later coppers, and the near-universal familiarity of this type throughout early America in the late 1780s and later, it is a wonder that Nova Constellatios are not among the most avidly sought early American coins. Interest in them and their varieties should be far greater. PCGS# 807.