Hey everyone ! I live in New England and so I love U.S Colonial Coins (Coppers) Like CT coppers, New Jersey ,MA Coppers etc. ) . If you have one or more please post them . I'll go first with MY 1787 CT. Copper found in 2004 .
I have a couple. Here is one. These are expensive little suckers with tons of die varieties. In my opinion they require alot of research and understanding. If not you could easily over pay.
It was not an official New York State coinage, but the Nova Eborac copper was a proposed coinage. Machin's Mills was a private minter that was located in Newburgh, New York. They made genuine, authorized coins and counterfeits. This is a Vermont copper, but it was struck at Machin's Mills. The reverse is intentionally weak. It was used for some of their counterfeits. The idea was to make the piece look "worn" so that people would accept it. If plenty of other people had accepted it, then it must be good ... right? This came from the Eric P. Newman collection. I have many more pre-federal coins, but this is a start.
Here is "cousin" of the Hibernia coinage, a Rosa Americana half penny. These coins were made with a strange alloy called bath metal. The new Red Book says that is an incorrect term. At any rate it was made of copper, zinc and a trace of silver. The coins were not pleasant to the touch. They were rough, and the American colonists rejected them.
Philadelphia coin dealer William Idler did a copy of a Maryland piece and made it into a store card. The Maryland originals are quite expensive, but this is a nice placeholder in my Colonial/Pre-Federal collection. Recently purchased in a Stack'sBowers sale.
I have a few pretty rough U.S. Colonials (sorry my camera skills and equipment doesn't match most of yours) 1788 Connecticut and a 1788 Massachusetts are a few of mine.
My rough and worn examples are what I can afford, but I really like them for their history. Even the wear means they were used by real people in early America, and perhaps for years into the 1800s. I wish there were a way to know what all they had bought and who had received them in change. Although called colonial, of course the 1787 pieces (Connecticut and New Jersey) were made after independence, while the Woods token and the Pennsylvania 30 shillings were actually made during the colonial period and in the name of the King.
Here is my representative Lord Baltimore, Maryland coin, a six pence. Yes, these pieces are very scarce and expensive. The copper piece that Idler copied is especially tough.