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1786 "IMMUNIS COLUMBIA" PATTERN - MARIS 3-C
Rarity: Extremely Rare
Variety equivalents:
Breen 1129, Breen
Decad 6-F
Notes:
This was the only use of the obverse die.
The reverse die of this
variety was also used on:
1786 Maris 4-C
1786 Maris 5-C
1786 Maris 7-C
1786 Maris 8½-C
1786 Maris
10½-C
1787 Maris 6-C
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Images courtesy of Superior
Galleries
Known examples:
Stack's 1976 ANA Sale, Uncirculated at $22,000
PCGS EF-45 (illustrated above).
Ex - DEA auction - Superior Galleries' "Pre-Long Beach Sale",
February 18-20, 2001, Lot 2027, where it was described as follows:
"1786 Immunis Columbia with Shield Reverse Breen-1129 Rarity 7 PCGS
graded EF45. Nice glossy medium brown and chocolate. The
planchet is smooth and free of corrosion, but there are a few tiny
laminations at the 86 and MMU, as struck. The only notable contact
mark is a long, thin diagonal nick through the 1 of the date. An
attractive example of this extremely rare colonial Confederation
pattern, sometimes mistakenly called a New Jersey state copper because
of the shield reverse (Maris 3-C)", sold for $18,400 - Early American
Numismatics
"EF". Ex -
Stack's sale of the John L. Roper, 2nd collection, December 8-9, 1983, Lot
297, "128.4 grains...", illustrated, sold for $7,150
Bowers & Ruddy Galleries sale of
the Garrett collection, Lot 1389, EF, 153.4 grains at $17,000
Stack's "Robison" sale,
1982
Additional examples are known
Notes:
Breen claimed "7 or 8 known" in 1988, making this an extremely
rare coin. Breen called this a "Pattern Decad" because
of its relationship to a large copper coin mentioned in a deleted
paragraph of the Report of the Grand Committee of Continental Congress
Sources and/or recommended reading:
"Walter Breen's Complete
Encyclopedia Of U.S. And Colonial Coins" by Walter Breen
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