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Vermont Copper (Vermonts variety)

Designed and engraved by: Col. William Coley (American)
Struck by: Reuben Harmon, Jr. (American)
American Confederation Period
1785
Object Place: Rupert, Harmon & Co. Mint, Vermont, United States

Medium/Technique Copper, struck on a rough planchet
Dimensions Diameter and weight:27.5-29 mm, 8.78 gm (1 1/8 in., 0.31 oz.)
Credit Line Gift of Miss Rosamond Lamb
Accession Number64.93
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CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsNumismaticsCoins

Catalogue Raisonné Breen 711 v.2
DescriptionThis is the rarer of the two varieties of this type, with the ray pointing after the RES. on the obverse.
Obv: VERMONTS. RES. PUBLICA around sun rising over mountains with trees and a plow below ·1785· at bottom, the whole surrounded by a beaded rim
Rev: STELLA. QUARTA. DECIMA. around rays and stars radiating out from a circle enclosing an eye, the whole surrounded by a beaded rim
Edge: plain but rough