Rare American coins: their description, and past and present fictitious values . VERMONT CENTS. Crosby, who is conceded to be the best au-thority on American Colonial and State coin-ages, gives twenty-two types and varieties of theVermont coppers, in his excellent work, EarlyCoins of America, and we simply present themost common type, 1787, in the above illustra-tion ; The earliest Vermont copper coins weredated 1785, and presented on the obverse sidethe sun sinking behind the hills, or mountainspartially wooded, beneath which a plow, anddate 1785 ; around the border the inscription,* VERMONTI
Rare American coins: their description, and past and present fictitious values . VERMONT CENTS. Crosby, who is conceded to be the best au-thority on American Colonial and State coin-ages, gives twenty-two types and varieties of theVermont coppers, in his excellent work, EarlyCoins of America, and we simply present themost common type, 1787, in the above illustra-tion ; The earliest Vermont copper coins weredated 1785, and presented on the obverse sidethe sun sinking behind the hills, or mountainspartially wooded, beneath which a plow, anddate 1785 ; around the border the inscription,* VERMONTIS - RES - PUBLIC A. The re-verse side presents a series of the suns rays,radiating from the centre, within which is a hu-man eye. Thirteen stars are placed between theouter ends of the thirteen large rays, while thir-teen smaller rays alternate with the former,making twenty-six rays in a circle. Around the border is the legend, QUARTA-DECIMA-STELLA. There are several varieties of thistype of the Vermont coppers. One variety reads on obverse, VERMONTS -RES-PUBLIC A; another re
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