1788 Connecticut Copper Newp

Another cool coin

Where do you find so many interesting coins?

Ha!

I got a good deal on it :P

GR58,
Stumbled upon this one while doing key word search -Connecticut colonial coins for sale-
Guys site popped up that I have never seen before. Turns out he's liquidating his collection and this one was not only neat (I've never seen one possibly brass) but affordable.

I know p, not conventional by any means.

One theory by a Connecticut specialist I spoke with told me it would be highly unusual but not impossible. Minting was on a time frame and these "jobs" and contracts pretty much had to be done by the proposed schedules.
This could have been a last ditch effort by the mint to use alternative metals to finish the job.
We agreed it's a theory. I've not seen any Connecticuts in yellow metal...except this one.

I don't trust any description of "brass" when dealing with a copper based alloy. People tend to describe them based on color and to me cleaned or rubbed copper, brass, and bronze are all the same color. And think about a 1961 cent and a 1963 cent, could you tell them apart by color? Most likely no, but the 61 is bronze, and the 63 is brass. Unless you have a metalurgical analysis that shows significant zinc and no tin, to me it is just copper.