1785 VERMONT COPPER -
RYDER 2PCGS No:
539
Rarity:
Common
Variety equivalents:
Breen 711, Bressett 1-A
Notes:
This was the only use of the obverse die.
This was the only use of
the reverse die.
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Images courtesy of Ron Guth
Significant examples:
(illustrated above). Ex - Robert
Hinckley collection, Lot 2288, sold for $2,875.00
Recent appearances:
PCGS EF-45. Ex
– American Numismatic Rarities, LLC’s “The Classics Sale,”
July 25, 2003
, Lot
15, "Ryder-2, Landscape, VERMONTS, Rarity-2", illustrated, sold for
$3,450.00 PCGS VF-30. Ex - Superior Stamp
& Coin's "The ANA 2000 National Money Show Auction", March
2-3, 2000, Lot 26
PCGS VF-25. Ex - Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins
& Collectibles, Inc.'s "Pre-Long Beach Sale", September 23
& 24, 2002, Lot 74, illustrated.
"VF-25, porous". Ex - Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins
& Collectibles, Inc.'s "Pre-Long Beach Sale", September 23
& 24, 2002, Lot 75, illustrated.
PCGS Fine-12. Ex - Superior Galleries' "Pre-Long Beach Coin
Sale", May 27-29, 2001, Lot 1027, plated, where it was described as
follows: "1785 Vermont Ryder-2 PCGS graded Fine-12. Landscape
VERMONTS. Fairly glossy steel brown and chocolate. The planchet is
decent but does show microscopic granularity and faint hairlines under
strong magnification. There is a shallow void in the planchet near the
center of the reverse, and shallow voids weaken VER, IMA, and LLA. The
rest of the planchet is nice and the legend clear. Struck very slightly
off center to K-5 leaving the lower third of the date off the planchet.
E-MDS."
Sources and/or
recommended reading:
"Copper Coins of
Vermont" by Tony Carlotto
"The Colonial Coins of
Vermont" by Hillyer Ryder
"Vermont Copper
Coinage" by Kenneth Bressett (Chapter 11 in "Studies on Money in
Early America" by Eric P. Newman and Richard C. Doty)
"Walter Breen's Complete
Encyclopedia Of U.S. And Colonial Coins" by Walter Breen
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