The latest cigar for Tobacconists Association of America (TAA) has shipped.

Crowned Heads announced that it would begin shipping The Angel’s Anvil 2016, the company’s TAA release.

This year’s version features a Connecticut broadleaf wrapper, a Nicaragua binder and Nicaraguan filler. It measures 5 1/2 x 54 and is the first time in three years the release has been box-pressed.

Production is limited to 1,000 boxes of 20 cigars with a suggested retail price of $10.50.

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