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Nice! Are you going to attribute the die varieties? You never know, there might be a rarer one in there!
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Are you going to attribute the die varieties? Will need to eventually, by "variety" up above I just meant I like the landscape VT coin better than the bust, I think this CT head looks the most "classic".. For NJ, it seemed every coin I looked at had an entirely different horse on it, I liked the pointy/bulbous 'snout' on this one  So as you see I have some learning to do, but that is part of the fun. |
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Well done @tim. Colonial copper is definitely interesting!
"If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
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Excellent examples you picked up! Really stellar coins. The majority of colonials out there are problem coins in some way. You've managed to get a lot of really nice examples, congrats!
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Collector of U.S. Coins, Varieties, and Colonial Coinage
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Great start. I'm also collecting the early coppers. Amazing connection to history. So much subtle symbolism and detail in those early designs. Thanks for sharing,those are nice.
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That's a very nice quartett of State coppers. Congratulations.
The Vermont Landscape would be my favourite too. There is something very 'quintessential' about them.
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The Vermont landscapes are my favorite as well. If you don't have one, get a copy of Whitman's Encyclopedia of Colonial and Early American Coins. You'll be able to ID all of yours with it. Start with the easiest and work your way to the harder ones Vermont should be the easiest, then New Jersey, toss up on the other two, and you are absolutely correct, the research and learning is all part of it! I love trying to attribute low grade Connecticuts looking for a hidden gem!
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Now I'm going to be looking to purchase some state copper, those are too cool! Thanks for sharing.
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Very nice!, you gotta show the reverses!
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Very nice!, you gotta show the reverses! If you insist! Sure is hard to take good pics of coins in slabs, with all those reflections, but here's the general idea. Now on the hunt for a Fugio & a Nova Constellatio, boy this colonial thing could get addictive.  |
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Addictive? No, not at all, I am closing in on 60 Connecticut varieties now!
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Very nice, . You should add a nice pine tree shilling too! I collect similar too you focusing on eye appeal.
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You should add a nice pine tree shilling too! Oh yes, or an oak tree, that would lead off the whole lineup. Tough coins, it never seems they used a big enough planchet to contain the whole coin. I also want a George Washington pattern, great story of how George did not want himself on a coin at all, too much like a king. Bar cent, RI ship, Virginia halfpenny, Machin Mills, Nova Eborac.... there are endless nominations out there of what might constitute a basic "colonial type set", which I guess is my top collecting goal at the moment. |
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I am closing in on 60 Connecticut varieties now! The number of varieties is mind-boggling, I guess those dies were just constantly breaking..? More research to do. Like when hunting for my NJ copper, I could swear they were all done by hand, one by one, each by different people, based on just the description "a horse bust, shoulders up, mostly looking right but once in a while toss one in looking left"  Edited by TimNH
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