Recently, early last year, I picked up not 1, not 2, but 3 Connecticut Coppers. All dated 1787 and circulated in various grades. I love the early American Colonial coinage but I’m not good with them. Just too many varieties and I’m not a variety collector either. So here’s my 2 newest ones.
That’s why I like them so much. Way too many varieties for me as most of the early American dies were handmade. That made them distinctive and created the varieties.
Some of those varieties are represented by only a few coins, and some of those coins are so bad, you can barely see anything on them. I sat in on the 4C portion of an Early American Coppers club convention a couple of times. It takes dedication to go after those coins. Here's the only Connecticut copper I have.
I acquired this one at the last FUN show. I wanted a Conn. for my Type Set but I would never collect these. Not only are there too many but they have got to be about the ugliest coins ever minted.
They are the ugliest until you start collecting medieval British coins. That's British King William II, also known as "Rufus." He looks like a frog to me. He was probably gay, so few women ever kissed him. He was said to be short and fat, but really like fancy shoes.
It's actually right around 350, most of which are 1787. I just hit 79 varieties. I especially like the 1788's, which were all made at machin's Mills.
It is quite ironic, of all the 1787 varieties these are both the same one, 38-l.2! This is an R4 variety, 117-158 known.
