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Bowers & Merena will be offered over 400 lots of colonials on ("and the number keeps climbing"). The highlight is
the Dr. Robert I. Hinkley Collection of Vermont coppers. This "hoard" was assembled by a bona fide "Old Country Doctor" from
way up north in New Hampshire beginning in the early 1960s. There are 140 Vermont coppers in the Hinkley Collection, along
with hundreds of other pieces, including gorgeous Massachusetts silver pieces, Connecticut and New Jersey pieces, a beautiful
Bar "cent," and the list goes on and on. The Vermont portion of the collection has 31 different varieties among the 140 different
pieces. Varieties included are R.1 to R.4, R.6 to R.14, R.16 to R.31, R.35 and R.36. Many are CC coins, and many of the duplicates
are CC pieces as well! Some favorites include the R.1, rough flan but neat as heck; a double-struck R.3 in EF; a nice tan
EF R.9 Baby Head with very few "problems"; an off-center, double-struck R.11 in choice Fine; a gorgeous R.12 on a Nova Constellatio,
simply gorgeous deep tan (I want it); a delightful problem-free EF R.18, sharp and beautiful;the Crosby-Garrett R.20, just
as beautiful as any piece of Vermont copper that ever "came down the pike;" an extraordinarily beautiful R.24 in choice EF;
ditto for the R.25; a sharp and essentially problem-free R.27 (nice); another R.27, this one a flip-over double strike; the
R.28 and R.29 are both extraordinary pieces; the R.30 is the Bowers-Vlack-Stearns-Stickney coin, as beautiful as the day it
was made (almost) with full portrait (no swelling), probably Finest Known or so close that it doesn't matter; an R.31 that
I think is just gorgeous even though it's "only" EF.
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