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UNITED STATES: AE Connecticut copper, 1785, ANACS VF30

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / US Coins Start Price:140.00 USD Estimated At:150.00 - 250.00 USD
UNITED STATES: AE Connecticut copper, 1785, ANACS VF30
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280.00USD+ (56.00) buyer's premium + applicable fees & taxes.
This item SOLD at 2022 May 13 @ 18:22UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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UNITED STATES: AE Connecticut copper, 1785, KM-22, Miller-3.1-L, W-2325, ANACS graded VF30, Mailed Bust right. Connecticut coppers have the most complex minting history of all colonial issues. There were more than 355 die combinations, with at least 126 type varieties having 26 distinct bust styles made by at least six different mints. Yet, the basic design of the Connecticut Coppers never changed; all issues imitated the British halfpenny. The obverse depicted the bust of a man wearing a laurel wreath, the figure sometimes faced to the left (as George II) or to the right (as George III) and was either clad in mail armor or draped in a toga. The obverse legend was one of several forms of Latin abbreviations for the phrase "By the authority of Connecticut." The reverse depicted a seated personification of Liberty closely resembling the British Britannia with a legend consisting of an abbreviated form of "Independence and Liberty."