1787 Manchin Mills

Interesting how the die linkages can illustrate the history of these colonial coppers. The story of this variety, 13-D, begins with the variety 9-E, which was minted by the legitmate Company for Coining Coppers, in New Haven, under contract from the state. Abel Buell made the dies and ran that company. The 9 obverse went on to be paired with reverses R and D, but those varieties are usually found to be well below the legal weight. It's thought they were minted illicitly by Abel Buell's son Benjamin, who was given the dies after his father fled the country after the debacle over the Fugio coppers that he crafted. Benjamin ultimately sold his father's dies to the counterfeiters at Machins Mills in Newburgh NY, where the D reverse was used again, now paired with obverse 13 for the known Machins Mills counterfeit above.
Note the Machins triangular denticles on the obverse, but not the reverse.

I agree with VF.. VF25 actually :)

It's a nice example and I like the color.

1. I was just showing how the die linkages trace the history of the mintage of these coins. The obverse 9 die was used by Abel Buell with reverse E to make legal Connecticut coppers. Then Benjamin Buell used obverse 9 with reverse D to make underweight coppers that violated the state contract. Then Machins Mills got ahold of the reverse D die and used it with their obverse 13 die to make blatant counterfeits.

2. Those denticles tend to be associated with the Machins Mills products, but aren't completely diagnostic. I can recall at least one instance of our resident expert, vermontensium, being misled by similar denticles into thinking an anonymous counterfeit halfpenny might have been a Machins coin...

3. All the Connecticut coppers, legal and counterfeit, are grouped together by both Miller and Bowers, probably because it's not always clear which is which! It was Walter Breen who attributed a group of them to Machins Mills, but that group is still largely his subjective opinion.