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1787 COPPER Connecticut Copper, Muttonhead XF40 PCGS 1787[COPPER] Connecticut Copper, Muttonhead XF4

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1787 COPPER Connecticut Copper, Muttonhead XF40 PCGS 1787[COPPER] Connecticut Copper, Muttonhead XF4
<B>1787<COPPER> Connecticut Copper, Muttonhead XF40 PCGS.</B></I> M. 1.2-C, R.3. A richly detailed chocolate-brown example of this crude <I>Guide Book</B></I> variety. Likely a contemporary counterfeit, Breen assigns the type to an "unlocated private mint." Mint-made laminations affect the upper obverse, but the surfaces are remarkably free of blemishes or corrosion. In the Taylor Sale, Michael Hodder attributed the obverse appearance to a combination of factors: "Imperfectly annealed and rolled. A high-grade example from the intermediate state of the obverse die, after partial regrinding: right half of first O, left half of second O, second upright of each N, and final E in the obverse legend lapped off the die." Listed on page 59 of the 2006 <I>Guide Book.</B></I><BR><I>Ex: Frederick B. Taylor Collection (Bowers and Merena, 3/1987), lot 2394.</B></I><BR><I>From The Oak Collection of American Colonial Coinage.</B></I>