Diversity in Numismatics
Cayman Islands


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Set Details
Coin Description: COP 1786 'ENSIUM' VERMONT
Grade: NGC VF 30 BN
Owner: RAM-VT
 
Set Category: Other (Diverse collecting in the style of Garrett while on a very limited budget)
Set Name: Diversity in Numismatics
Slot Name: Cayman Islands
Research: Currently not available

Owner's Description

Colonial Coinage Vermont 1786 “VERMONTEMSIUM” RR 7 (Rarity 3) VF-30 Brown Census - 33 NGC graded coins - 15 VF's / VF-30 ? - 13 graded higher On June 15, 1785 the Vermont legislature granted Reuben Harmon, Jr. an exclusive franchise to make copper coins. They were to weigh 160 grs. which exceeded even the Tower Mint standards for halfpence. This weight was reduced to 111grs. in October of that year. Vermont coinage had two basic designs with several varieties of each and one oddball issue First design Obv. – Shows the sun rising over the Green Mountains and a plough in the foreground with the date below. The obverse legend read VERMONT(I)S RESPUBLICA (the Republic of Vermont”). Later VERMONTIS became VERMONTENSIUM (better Latin). Rev – Shows the All-Seeing Eye in the Blazing Sun within a constellation of 13 stars for the original 13 colonies. The reverse legend read STELLA QUARTA DECIMA or the 14th star referring to local pressure to join the union. Second design The mint operator petitioned the legislature to permit a change in design to approximate that similar to most other coppers then current (British halfpence and their local imitations including Connecticut). The Vermont legislature amended the act to specify the following: Obv. – A head with the motto AUCTORITATE VERMONTENIUS, abridged Rev. – A women with the letters, INDE: ET LIB: - for Independence and Liberty. Third Design the “Immune Columbia” issue Although this design bears the date 1785, it was probably struck later toward the end of the Vermont-Machin venture. The obverse matches the requirements for the second design but the reverse shows a seated figure of Columbia (a poetical name for America) and the legend IMMUNE COLUMBIA, this reverse was not authorized by the Vermont Legislature. I purchased this coin from B&M when B&M were still there. I paid dearly for this coin because I knew the owner who was from an old Vermont family. I wanted the coin to stay in Vermont. - I paid $2,250.

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