Show your FUGIO!
bennybravo
Posts: 1,950 ✭✭✭
Always wanted one of these, just hasn't happened yet. Show them if you have one! Would love to see your examples of such a historic coin.
2
Comments
Showed this recently in another post
"Got a flaming heart, can't get my fill"
Great examples!
https://www.ebay.com/mys/active
Mine was admittedly a bit of a panic buy from the good folks at HLRC, just after PCGS reclassified it as the first regular-issue federal coin (I didn’t want to get priced out from owning a nice example). Time will tell whether it was a sensible or terribly informed decision.
I love that the first federal coin is still collectible even in UNC, thanks to the famous Bank of New York hoard…which is still holding something like 900 coins. This one is a Newman 13-X, which I believe is the most common variety, and almost certainly originated from the NY hoard.
Blunt rays, a little harder to find.
I was just looking for a nice low-grade one of these. I'm toying with the idea of a 18th century copper type set or sampling thereof. Cool coin!
Check out the "high relief" of that obverse! Very cool.
"Got a flaming heart, can't get my fill"
Some very nice coins here. Thought about getting one of these years ago... put it off, other priorities. Never did get one.... Cheers, RickO
I really like the Fugio coinage. These are the 3 examples in my collection.
Is that the New Haven restrike? If so, I'm surprised at how much wear it has.
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
Got this on the BST looooooooooooong ago. I should probably get a nicer one at some point, but it's nice to have a piece of history like this that I can just hold and appreciate.
I’ve shown this many times but the story is worth telling again- outbid by Tony Terranova in a Stacks auction, I had to reach out to the legend himself and pay up a little.
MS66RB
@Floridafacelifter - I looked up the cert number and the auction history. Any info on the Laird U. Park Collection provenance? Does the holder still have that reference on it?
"Got a flaming heart, can't get my fill"
Yes indeed since you asked……… here is the coin in the holder as I purchased it and as it remains
And Laird Park had a tremendous collection of early coins- auctioned by Stacks in 1976- here’s a link to the auction catalog
https://archive.org/details/lairduparkcollec1976stac/page/28/mode/2up
And my coin can be found on page 31
Holey Moley!! This is going to have to suffice until I can get a real one. lol...
Successful BST transactions with: SilverEagles92; Ahrensdad; Smitty; GregHansen; Lablade; Mercury10c; copperflopper; whatsup; KISHU1; scrapman1077, crispy, canadanz, smallchange, robkool, Mission16, ranshdow, ibzman350, Fallguy, Collectorcoins, SurfinxHI, jwitten, Walkerguy21D, dsessom.
@Floridafacelifter - thanks. I like the Stacks photos better than the TV. Bet they are more accurate too.
"Got a flaming heart, can't get my fill"
Just got this one in the mail from @MWallace, my first Fugio!
."It's a dangerous business... going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to" -JRR Tolkien_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Outstanding BST transactions as a seller, buyer and trader with: ----- mustanggt, Kliao, claudewill87, MWallace, paesan, mpbuck82, moursund, basetsb, lordmarcovan, JWP, Coin hunter 4, COINS MAKE CENTS, PerryHall, Aspie_Rocco, Braddick, DBSTrader2, SanctionII, Histman, The_Dinosaur_Man, jesbroken, CentSearcher ------ANA Member #3214817
Yes; maybe a pocket piece?
MS64BN …this coin was in my possession for a short period of time…i truly regret selling it…much redder than the photo reveals….it was TRULY a Bank of NY hoard coin…i purchased it as a framed piece with a “letter” to a Duetches Bank exec in 1973 as a memento from NY Bank hoard.
Purchased from CRO quite a while back.
Keeper of the VAM Catalog • Professional Coin Imaging • Prime Number Set • World Coins in Early America • British Trade Dollars • Variety Attribution
Wow! Great Examples!!!!
https://www.ebay.com/mys/active
Love the coins here everyone!
Here's mine! I might need to upgrade
I love your "Modern Crap"!
Who bought the off center ones from SB??? Those were so stinkin cool
BHNC #248 … 130 and counting.
I don't know who purchased them, but the Star of Texas Collection Coins were awesome!
Here's my favorite! It's really the perfect looking error!
https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/1072739/classic-u-s-error-coin-appreciation-thread/p1