1787 RARE \"Horned Eagle\" Clipped Planchet Massachusetts Colonial Copper Cent
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1787 RARE \"Horned Eagle\" Clipped Planchet Massachusetts Colonial Copper Cent:
$103.70
A Rare Coin and Low Reserve
1787 Massachusetts Cent Horned Eagle. This State of 1787 Massachusetts Cent is uniformly chocolate brown on both sides. Although circulated, the strike is sharp enough to read CENT on the eagle’s breast. For the grade, the surfaces are original, clean, and free of individual marks worthy of mention. May have been cleaned recently.
Joseph Callender, a student of sliversmith Paul Revere, designed this coin. It portrays an Indian brave looking left holding a bow and arrow. One star is above in the upper left field. The inscription is COMMON WEALTH separated by the figure of the Indian. The reverse shows an eagle with a bundle of arrows in its left claw and an olive branch in its right. On its breast is a shield with the word CENT at its top.
There are a few varieties for this issue. They have a “horn” or no horn on the eagle, 4 or 5 leaves on the sprig. A period or no period before COMMON, and a single or double exergue line on the reverse. The present coin is the “Horned Eagle” variety, which resulted from a die defect.
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1787 RARE \"Horned Eagle\" Clipped Planchet Massachusetts Colonial Copper Cent:
$103.70