1786 NY 1/2P Non Vi Virtute Vici, Small Head, BN (Regular Strike)
Series: U.S. Colonial Issues
PCGS AU58BN
PCGS AU58BN
PCGS AU53BN
- PCGS #:
- 422
- Designer:
- N/A
- Edge:
- N/A
- Diameter:
- N/A
- Weight:
- N/A
- Mintage:
- N/A
- Mint:
- Philadelphia
- Metal:
- Other
- Auction Record:
- $180,000 • MS64+BN • 01-24-2021 • Heritage Auctions
Major Varieties
- 1786 NY 1/2P Non Vi Virtute Vici, Large Head, BN
- 1786 NY 1/2P Non Vi Virtute Vici, Small Head, BN
Condition Census What Is This?
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#1 MS63 estimated grade
Louis E. Eliasberg, Sr. Collection - Bowers & Merena 5/1996:56, $66,000 |
| #2 MS61BN PCGS grade |
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#3 XF40 PCGS grade
F. Dabney Caldwell, Jr. Collection - Stack’s 4/1988:2005 - Heritage 11/2012:3035, $64,625 - Stack's/Bowers 3/2014:4002, $57,575 - Heritage 6/2015:3736, $47,000 |
| #3 XF40 PCGS grade |
| #5 VF30 PCGS grade |
#6 VF20 PCGS grade
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The Non Vi Virtute Vici Copper is grouped with other New York issues because of the reverse legend Neo-Eboracensis (the Latin term for New York). This issue has also been tied with certain Vermont coppers because of the matching shape of the A punch, and the date ties it to the New jersey series. Tradition has it that the obverse figure is a portrait of George Washington, but the similarity is tenuous; nonetheless, it is included in Baker's "Medallic Portraits of Washington" as Baker 13.
This is a rare issue that seems to have circulated well. The best example appears to be Eliasberg:56, catalogued in 1996 as MS-63 or finer. Others range in grade from corroded Fine to choice AU. Sometimes, these come on clipped or mal-formed planchets and they are rarely found properly centered.