Diversity in Numismatics
Cayman Islands


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Set Details
Coin Description:
Grade: PCGS VF 25 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 New York 1787 Figure Left Nova Eborac Copper VF-25 Brown Census - 62 NGC graded coins - ? with this grade/VF = 24 - 9 graded higher ? = NGC groups VF-20, VF-25, VF-30 & VF-35 under VF so you have no idea how many VF-25's there are. There are 24 coins with some grade of VF. 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 major 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 imitation British halfpence. 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 laurel wreath with the legend "NOVA EBORAC." 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 "VIRT. ET LIB." (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. I lost my cost info on this coin. I remember I got it for what I thought was a very good price. As nice looking as this colonial is, eBay bidders evidently shied away from this colonial because the attribution on the label was wrong. After winning this colonial I sent it back to PCGS to get the label corrected.

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