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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;l.cutler, post: 26634329, member: 13318&quot;]It&#039;s quite nice, so I don&#039;t think $200 is out of line.&nbsp; Honestly, even though I collect these I don&#039;t really grade them.&nbsp; There is so much variation in planchet quality, and strike quality, I just don&#039;t get hung up on a numerical grade.&nbsp; I do look for detail, color and surface quality.&nbsp; Nice light chocolate brown is quite desirable.&nbsp; Most of what is on your coin are planchet striations, but there is minor damage.&nbsp; You aren&#039;t going to find many of these that don&#039;t have it though, and I&#039;d say this is better than most.&nbsp; The Connecticut minting history is pretty complex, all of the 1788 dated pieces and some of the others are actually contemporary counterfeits minted at Machin&#039;s Mill in Newburgh New York.&nbsp; Most of the 350+ varieties, yours included, were minted at the legal mint in New Haven Connecticut. The mint changed hands during it&#039;s time in operation and eventually switched over to minting the Fugio cents, that&#039;s a story in itself!&nbsp; There is a lot of reading available, one inexpensive book that covers these as well as other colonial and state coinage is the &quot;Whitman Encyclopedia of Colonial and Early American Coins&quot;.&nbsp; Quite inexpensive and well worth the investment.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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