OK, maybe the most significant purchase of my collecting "career"!

Purchase from an old collection of "electros" I have looked for several years to find the possible source example with no luck...


Many stated it was the "Bennington" example, but it does NOT match!




No visible edge seam, weight is high but within recorded range for other genuine examples and scans as copper, no lead. So I sent it to the advertised "experts" and it came back as their top POP!


Definitely a "Monster" in the series!

 

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I looked and it is not just Top Pop by a little. The previous was XF, so this jumps over XF+, AU50, AU50+, AU53, AU53+, AU55, AU55+, all the way to AU58.

This is an astonishing find! Congratulations to you.

 

PCGS has 2 in AU53, none higher. I'm confused by "source example" - did you or do you think it's fake?

 

It had been thought some time back a possible electro; one of the few examples I could NOT prove a fake.

 

Holy smokes! It's the find of a lifetime. Congratulations not only on adding a tremendous coin to your collection, but more importantly on rescuing a significant piece of Colonial numismatic history from a box of repros.

 

@Jack D. Young I thought „source example“ referred to an authentic coin used to make counterfeits?

 

Correct, the source is the coin to make counterfeit dies to strike fakes. I looked for a source coin for mine if it were an electro and never could find one like it.

 

Holy crap what a find. Yeah I’ve never seen a high grade baby head Vermont copper either

 

This is the opposite of your usual posts. It makes me curious - have you ever uncovered coins deemed counterfeit by a major TPG that actually weren't?

I never knew these baby heads existed but this is an amazing outcome for you.

 

Actually no! We have proved some low grade examples from collectors or dealers (that were thought counterfeit) genuine but not TPG deemed counterfeits. And some examples bodybagged "questionable" or "unverifiable" when they were not sure...

 

Well, this one started me down the rabbit hole of Vermont coppers; I sold most of my early large cents at the St. Louis EAC and was looking for another direction than just counterfeits.

I have actually started an NGC registry set on these...

 

Wow! Congratulations.

 

Phenomenal find, Jack!

 

Quite the understatement!

 

Congratulations on finding that high of a grade on a Vermont Copper. It’s truly outstanding.