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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Victor, post: 1504982, member: 5454&quot;]<b>connecticut copper</b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; ******************</p><p>&nbsp; I taught a small coin collecting class last fall at the local adult education center.&nbsp;&nbsp; One of the students brought in a heavily worn and cruddy old copper.&nbsp; You could just barely make out the letters CON around the rim.</p><p>So I guessed it was a Connecticut copper.</p><p>&nbsp; Even though I told him not to clean it he did and brought it to the next class.&nbsp; It looked better and you could see the details better.&nbsp; We brought it to two coin shows and let some experts look at it.&nbsp; Sure enough it is a 1787 Connecticut copper.</p><p>&nbsp; What is interesting is that back in the day when they let you pick the dump is where he found it.&nbsp; A funeral parlor threw out a very old couch that was in the funeral home.&nbsp; The student cut open the back of the couch with a pocket knife and the coin fell out.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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