Question for Abuell

ColonialCoinUnion

This is running on Ebay at the moment described as 18 KNOWN! RARE FUGIO W/ PTD STARS! PCGS CERT:





Any idea how many of this variety are actually known (as opposed to the number that PCGS has slabbed being highlighted by the seller)?

jonesy

I Love That Coin!!!

ColonialCoinUnion

ttt

abuell

The variety is N. 15-Y. It's a R-3 variety and one of the more common non-hoard varieties. My CC for the variety is 3 AU 55's, 3 AU 50's and 6 XF 45's. From the pictures I would grade the coin a choice VF 35, possibly a XF 40 - make no mistake it's a nice coin.

I emailed the seller shortly after the coin was listed with the above info and received a very nice reply. His listing is a classic case of using a slab company's population report as valid research.

cherrypickincoin

Guess the grade and variety on this puppy, the only one I got! Will post the grade later.

cherrypickincoin

Wonder why that didn't work..hmm

Ah there we go.

jadecoin

CCU, This is N.15-Y, an R.4 variety. It's a common variety. A few years ago, we were fortunate enough to have purchased a large collection of Fugios and 15-Y was represented by several examples from Fine through Ch. AU. PCGS is actually not too far off on the grading of this example, as they only overgrade it by 10 points (this is a VF-35 coin).

"18 known" is a highly overstated. 15-Y is common, as far as Fugio varities go. The seller should focus more on the originality, as opposed to the variety scarcity. The seller's coin is very original and is great as a type representation. Actually, this coin is likely an R.3, as we do not know how many examples have not seen the light of day in decades. Not a bad coin though. Do you have an ebay auction number??

jade

lordmarcovan

Nice.

On the other end of the spectrum, if anyone knows of a holed Fugio, I'm potentially in the market for one.

abuell

<< <i>Guess the grade and variety on this puppy, the only one I got! Will post the grade later. >>



Variety: N. 7-T; grade: F 12.

cherrypickincoin

I guess PCGS should give up on colonials, lol.

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cherrypickincoin

err I'm no good at this HTML stuff. Here we go.

<center><img src="http://images.andale.com/f2/110/109/8495265/1057039820407_label.jpg"></center>

If that doesn't work I give up.

Russ

Russ, NCNE

cherrypickincoin

Thank you Russ. I need to take an HTML tutorial, lol.

Russ

CP,

The forum doesn't allow the use of html. It uses it's own coding specific to the software. For images it's [img ]url of image[/img ]

Just close the brackets.

Russ, NCNE

ColonialCoinUnion

Thanks Abuell and Jade for the knowledge sharing.

abuell

In evaluating early copper one must be cognizant of the fact that color and surfaces are more important to a coin's overall appeal, or lack thereof, than technical grade. Look at the two coins shown in this thread and forget completely their respective technical grades and concentrate solely on the color and surfaces of the coins. One coin is choice and one coin is, well, not. The differences between the two coins are far far greater than the difference between 45 and 20 or 35 and 12.

ColonialCoinUnion

<< <i>In evaluating early copper one must be cognizant of the fact that color and surfaces are more important to a coin's overall appeal, or lack thereof, than technical grade. Look at the two coins shown in this thread and forget completely their respective technical grades and concentrate solely on the color and surfaces of the coins. One coin is choice and one coin is, well, not. The differences between the two coins are far far greater than the difference between 45 and 20 or 35 and 12. >>



Can you post that in large capital letters on this site so everyone can see it 24 hours a day? I couldn't agree with you more.