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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;MIGuy, post: 21347014, member: 116145&quot;]I picked up another bargain piece for my low grade Colonial Copper set - this time it&#039;s a 1787 Nova Eborac Copper Cent, Seated Figure Left variety (there are 4 varieties) in a PCGS slab graded VG08.&nbsp; I love the history of these colonial coppers - and here&#039;s some info from my favorite source on these, the University of Notre Dame, &quot;In March of 1787 the New York State Assembly took a stance restricting the circulation of lightweight coppers and rejecting all the petitions they had requested for permission to mint coppers. The two majors contenders for the minting rights took matters into their own hands. Thomas Machin and his partnership concluded an agreement with the Vermont mint and also began producing <a href="https://coins.nd.edu/colcoin/colcoinintros/Machin.intro.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://coins.nd.edu/colcoin/colcoinintros/Machin.intro.html" rel="nofollow">imitation British halfpence</a>. The other major contender for the New York contract was the partnership of Ephraim Brasher and John Bailey. Brasher and Bailey also took matters into their own hands by privately minting Nova Eborac coppers (Nova Eborac being the Latin for New York). The coins were made to look like contemporary British and Connecticut coppers with an obverse portrait of a mailed bust facing right and wearing a laureal wreath with the legend &quot;NOVA EBORAC.&quot; The reverse contained a seated figure of Liberty holding a branch in one hand and a liberty pole in the other with a shield below, similar to Britannia, with the legend &quot;VIRT. ET LIB.&quot; (Virtue and Liberty) and the date 1787 in exergue. These coins were accepted and regularly used for they are usually found in well circulated condition. Their weight range is from 88 - 150 grains.</p><p><br /></p><p>All Nova Eborac coppers bear the date 1787. They are found in four varieties made from three obverse and four reverse dies.&nbsp; Anthony Terranova discovered punch link evidence associating these coppers to the <a href="https://coins.nd.edu/colcoin/colcoinintros/Brasher.intro.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://coins.nd.edu/colcoin/colcoinintros/Brasher.intro.html" rel="nofollow">Brasher doubloons</a>, and Breen has shown them to be stylistically similar to coins by Brasher and Bailey as the New Jersey &quot;Running Fox&quot; (Maris 74-bb, 75-bb, 76-cc, 77-dd and 78-dd) and the New York &quot;Excelsior&quot; coppers.&quot;&nbsp; (Sellers pics)</p><p>&nbsp;[ATTACH=full]1542685[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1542686[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1542687[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1542688[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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