Diversity in Numismatics
Cayman Islands


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Set Details
Coin Description:
Grade: PCGS VF 35 Brown
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: See NGC's Census Report for this Coin

Owner's Description

Colonial Coinage 1787 Mailed Bust Left - Connecticut Copper VF-35 Census - 114 NGC graded coins - ? with this grade/10 VF's - 21 graded higher ? = NGC groups VF-20, VF-25, VF-30 & VF-35 under VF so you have no idea how many VF-35's there are. There are ten coins with some grade of VF. Two members of the State Assembly, Joseph Hopkins and Samuel Bishop joined with John Goodrich and James Hillhouse to petition the legislature for a coining franchise. Their fellow legislators authorized them on Oct. 20, 1785, to coin 2.4 million coppers, “of the standard of British halfpence.’ to weigh 150 grs. each. (The coins were actually minted at a standard of 144 grs. each.) The state treasury was to collect 5% of the gross amount coined, after inspection to verify weight and purity. Before the “Company for the Coining of Coppers” dissolved 1,407,000 coppers that passed inspection. Statutory legends AUCTORI:CONNEC: ‘By authority of Connecticut,’ and INDE:ET LIB: = ‘Independence and Liberty’ were imitated on the Vermont Coppers. The end of the “Company for the Coining of Coppers” did not mean the end to the coinage of coppers in Connecticut. The mint and its equipment changed hands more than once. The new owners produced legal and illegal coppers which included Connecticut, FUGIO and Muchin’s Mill issues. In all, over 340 varieties of Connecticut Coppers are known from six different mints and at least two isolated individual sources. The field is by far the most complex in all colonial coinage. No cost data

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