My Latest Purchase

Vermontensium - Thanks for providing the Miller # and the link! I was just reading some interesting stuff - George Washington donated some of his personal silver to get the us mint up and running. They wanted to produce some silver coins to give to the Indian warrior chiefs to make friends so they wouldn't kill the settlers. I guess some things don't change in world politics. :)

Hey thanks for sharing!

This is a nice one! Fascinating that it makes VF. I might have guessed F, but not VF - that's interesting - shows you how poorly stuck most of these are. Even the nice ones aren't very detailed.

The planchet flaws are typical, so that's nothing to worry about. You actually have really nice, clean fields for the grade. The cinquefoils still actually have the detail of cinquefoils, it's very nice! And cool that it was in a PCGS holder.

All in all, great coin! The varieties of Connecticut's kinda scare me, so I'm good with one or two in my collection - I'll never go and get all of them. I'd be proud to have this one in mine! It's a good representative for the series.

I'll check my Bowers... I was going to have a look at Connecticuts anyway, for some personal research. =) Hopefully Dave and I agree on the Miller# lol =)

Alright, we'll see what vermontensium says, but my best guess is a W-3960, Miller 33.39-s.1.

According to Bowers, that makes it URS-9, which is equivalent in the original Sheldon scale as R3 - R4. In my edition of Bowers, it lists the price in VF-20 (published 2009) as $400.

That's all in the for-what-its-worth column!

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Nope, that's a fair price - you done well. ; )

What else are you after? I think a Virginia Halfpenny is the next colonial I *need*... ;D

You absolutely stole that coin for $280, wow.
delaner, agreed :-)
Choice color and sharp details. It's just a nice looking CT.
I would be proud to have it in my collection however, I would have not let it go for less then $400. Again, well done ;)

Awesome coin! I have so much to learn, but I know cool when I see it!

Colonial Numismatics is a specialty area in a sense. I would say they are the least collected coins in the " Red Book" There were many different coins used in the American Colonies brought over from England, Ireland, France to name a few, with a few entrepreneurs who came to the Colonies and contributed in minting coins during the Confederation period.
There are many die pairings and varieties, especially in the Connecticut Coppers, that you can literally take a lifetime assembling a complete collection, if ever. Then there is the crudeness of some.
There is something about these old copper coins that just makes you wonder if George Washington or Paul Revere or Ethan Allan etc..could have held these coins.

Beautiful coin...........