1787 Connecticut Half Penny - Low Grade, Low Cost - Colonial 1/2 Penny 1787 State of Connecticut - Auctori Connec, Rare
This listing is for the photographed 1787 Connecticut Half Penny. Low Grade, but a Low Cost Option! Amazing piece of history.Ā
Connecticut coppers have the most complex minting history of all colonial issues. There were more that 355 die combinations, with at least 126 type varieties having 26 distinct bust styles made by at least six different mints. Yet, the basic design of the Connecticut Coppers never changed; all issues imitated the British halfpenny. The obverse depicted the bust of a man wearing a laurel wreath, the figure sometimes faced to the left (as George II) or to the right (as George III) and was either clad in mail armor or draped in a toga. The obverse legend was one of several forms of Latin abbreviations for the phrase "By the authority of Connecticut." The reverse depicted a seated personification of Liberty closely resembling the British Britannia with a legend consisting of an abbreviated form of "Independence and Liberty."
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1787 Connecticut Half Penny - Low Grade, Low Cost - Colonial 1/2 Penny 1787 State of Connecticut - Auctori Connec, Rare
1787 Connecticut Half Penny - Low Grade, Low Cost - Colonial 1/2 Penny 1787 State of Connecticut - Auctori Connec, Rare
This listing is for the photographed 1787 Connecticut Half Penny. Low Grade, but a Low Cost Option! Amazing piece of history.Ā
Connecticut coppers have the most complex minting history of all colonial issues. There were more that 355 die combinations, with at least 126 type varieties having 26 distinct bust styles made by at least six different mints. Yet, the basic design of the Connecticut Coppers never changed; all issues imitated the British halfpenny. The obverse depicted the bust of a man wearing a laurel wreath, the figure sometimes faced to the left (as George II) or to the right (as George III) and was either clad in mail armor or draped in a toga. The obverse legend was one of several forms of Latin abbreviations for the phrase "By the authority of Connecticut." The reverse depicted a seated personification of Liberty closely resembling the British Britannia with a legend consisting of an abbreviated form of "Independence and Liberty."
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This listing is for the photographed 1787 Connecticut Half Penny. Low Grade, but a Low Cost Option! Amazing piece of history.Ā
Connecticut coppers have the most complex minting history of all colonial issues. There were more that 355 die combinations, with at least 126 type varieties having 26 distinct bust styles made by at least six different mints. Yet, the basic design of the Connecticut Coppers never changed; all issues imitated the British halfpenny. The obverse depicted the bust of a man wearing a laurel wreath, the figure sometimes faced to the left (as George II) or to the right (as George III) and was either clad in mail armor or draped in a toga. The obverse legend was one of several forms of Latin abbreviations for the phrase "By the authority of Connecticut." The reverse depicted a seated personification of Liberty closely resembling the British Britannia with a legend consisting of an abbreviated form of "Independence and Liberty."
