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1787 New Jersey "John J. Ford, Jr." "Large Plan, Plain Shld" PCGS AU53
Maris 63-q (Rarity-3)
Reference #: C29
"An attractive Large Planchet type coin with the desirable Ford pedigree. Warm chocolate brown toning for a variety that usually is seen on a dark olive planchet. The surfaces are smooth and reflective with an interesting bonus feature. As described by the Ford cataloguer: ""Apparently struck on a flan damaged by the planchet cutter leaving a wide expanse of unstruck copper along around the left side of the obverse, more faintly through the lower third of the reverse"". ex. Stacks John J. Ford, Jr. 10/03 Lot #199. "
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1787 New Jersey Camel Head PCGS VF35
Maris 56-n (Rarity-1)
Reference #: C30
"The ""Camel Head"" is a popular type, which some people are known to collect as a series onto itself, for the wealth of undertype variations that the frequent use of other circulating coppers of the time for planchet stock resulted in. This coin was struck over a Connecticut Copper, most likely a 1787 issue. Signs of the host coin are most apparent in an upside down branch hand emerging form the base of the NJ horse, and for the Connecticut legend AUCTORI showing at the right of the reverse. This is an attractive coin, with contrastng light and darker chocolate browns at points. Obverse is smooth and glossy, the reverse just a tad less so but pleasing nonetheless. Date struck low on the obverse, but still fully readable and no problems to speak of."
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1787 NJ on 1787 CT Copper "John J. Ford, Jr." Sm Plan Pl Shield NGC AU55BN
Maris 58-n (High Rarity-4)
Reference #: C73
"The second most common of three varieties that make up the ""Camel Head"" Type. This coin also has a Connecticut Copper undertype, which was attributed by Walter Breen to be a Miller 15-F.1. On the obverse, the Connecticut date can be viewed upside down on the horse's head, with a CT branch hand also right of the horse's base. On the reverse, signs of the undertype are clearest at the base of the shield. A recent ranking by a noted collector of New Jersey Coppers lists this coin as being the seventh finest known for this variety."
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1787 Vermont BRITANNIA PCGS VF30
Ryder 13 (Rarity-1)
Reference #: C35
"The Britania Type, named for the reverse die of this coin which previously had been used to produce counterfeit British Halfpennies at Machins Mills NewYork, hence Britannia. This coin is always graded by the obverse only as the reverse die was worn out long before it was married with a Vermont obverse. It is chocolate brown, relatively smooth and reflective with one or two rim bruises that are hardly apparent in the holder."
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