The Tom Wachtel Collection of Early Copper Coins

Five points sharper but covered with microscopic granularity. No verdigris and the only mark is a dull, light scratch over the O in ONE. E-MDS with

Nice glossy medium brown blending to chocolate in protected areas. Smooth and attractive with only trivial contact marks. A small diagonal nick betw

Rather glossy dark steel brown with lighter reddish steel brown toning in protected areas. The surfaces are smooth and show only minor contact marks

Attractive glossy light to medium brown blending to light chocolate on the right side of the reverse. The surfaces are smooth and this cent has excel

Glossy olive brown and chocolate with peeps of faded mint color in some of the protected areas, mostly on the reverse. No contact marks of note, but

Glossy light to medium brown blending to chocolate brown in protected areas. Smooth and quite nice with only trivial contact marks, none notable. Ve

Glossy olive brown and bluish steel with traces of very faded red in protected areas, most likely the result of an old cleaning. The surfaces are smo

Rather glossy dark olive and steel with lighter steel brown highpoints. Covered with fine roughness with some light scratches in the fields, all blen

Glossy light olive and medium brown with chocolate brown toning at the bust tip. Smooth and attractive with just a few minor ticks. A small nick in

Lustrous light brown with subtle overtones of light bluish steel, particularly on the obverse. Traces of mint red remain visible on the obverse and a

Lustrous light to medium brown with a streak of slightly darker steel brown toning from star 5 to left of the date. Satiny and very attractive. The

Lustrous light greenish olive with hints of bluish steel and sea-green overtones on both sides. The surfaces are satiny and this cent is very attract

Rather glossy golden steel brown with a patch of shallow reddish crust at ENT. Lightly cleaned. There are traces of fine roughness in a few places b

Glossy medium brown woodgrained on the obverse with chocolate brown. Just minor defects including a planchet flake at the top of the 3 and some fine

Glossy light olive brown and chocolate. Smooth and attractive but there is a depression in the planchet at the curl left of star 11. The depression

Frosty steel brown with slightly lighter toning on the highpoints thanks to a light cleaning and retoning. The color looks natural and passed muster

Frosty mint red fading to light steel brown with about half the mellowing mint color remaining visible on both sides. The surfaces are satiny and lus

Lustrous light olive brown and steel with about 20% of the planchet showing mint red, mostly on the reverse. The surfaces are satiny and this cent is

Frosty tan and light brown mixed with bluish steel and chocolate. Peeps of faded mint red show in a few of the protected places around the portrait a

Glossy light chocolate brown with lighter brown toning on the devices. Possibly lightly cleaned and retoned. The surfaces are smooth but there are t