1785 Confederatio Cent Bolen Copy Small Stars W14250 PCGS MS63BN CHOICE!

From the 04/13/22 Stacks sale of the E Pluribus Unum Collection, where this BOLEN COPY was lot #1093 and described as: “Lovely Confederatio Cent by Bolen.  "1785" (ca. 1863) Confederatio Cent, Small Stars. By John Adams Bolen. Musante JAB-8, Kenney-3, W-14250. Copper. MS-63 BN (PCGS).  26.7 mm. 149.7 grains. Lustrous chocolate brown with attractive accents of blue-green iridescence and traces of lingering red close to some of the letters. Excellent quality with an aesthetic to match. A very popular colonial copy by this highly skilled die-sinker. One of just 40 believed to have been struck.”  There are scratches at the top of the obverse and at the bottom of the reverse: these are NOT on the coin, they are on the plastic!  From the E Pluribus Unum Collection; Stacks 04/13/22:1093:$870; CVM; JRB; Shawn A. Yancey 02/27/23.