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I'M SICK AND TIRED OF ALL THE FUGIO WHINING - THIS MEANS YOU TOO DORKKARL!
Pushkin
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I’m sick and tired of listening to all the whining and complaining about Fugio Cents on this forum! Fugio cents are OLD, when you get old you don’t look so good – you should see me, I’m old and I look awful. Fugios are almost four times older than me, they should look positively TERRIBLE. But you guys, like Dorkkarl just won’t let up on complaining about the appearance of a certain Fugio cent up for sale (no, I’m NOT the seller, I‘ve never sold a Fugio, only owned one and it is here for you all to see).
Well, I have a proposal for all you whiners, wimps and sissies complaining about Fugios' appearance. BUY MINE NOW!
Yes, my Fugio is a real macho man’s Fugio, a Fugio for the he-man collector who knows that most Fugios have seen a lot of history and been through some really rough times. I took my Fugio to Greece, sought out the fabled Medusa, who is so ugly that if you look at her, she will turn you to stone. Using an elaborate system of mirrors and, sadly, mourning the loss of my translator who “looked”, Medusa looked at my Fugio and turned to stone!
So, if any of you guys complaining about the looks of Fugios have any guts, I dare you - double dare you - to purchase my Fugio. It has NOT been unnaturally oiled, cooked, or played with. All if its wear is NATURAL. Eight years – count them – eight, in a tannery. Buried for 43 years in a dung pile on a New England dairy farm. Six years left in a sock full of Fugios used by Caribbean pirates as a weapon – and those pirates had really smelly socks. 112 years at the bottom of the East River in Harlem – the corrosion and porosity on my Fugio is 100% natural – no artificial toning here – who needs AT when you can have the real thing. THIS COIN IS UNIQUE – NO OTHER FUGIO IN THE UNIVERSE HAS HAD THE EXACT SAME HISTORY – NONE!
For only 24 hours I am offering this UNIQUE piece of American History (if you don’t buy it you are an unpatriotic, un-American scumbag) for only $1234.00 plus $67 NON-INSURED S&H or $98.73 for INSURED S&H.
So all Fugio cowards – chronic Fugio complainers – put your money where you mouth (or mouse) is and buy this UNIQUE, 100% natural, organically aged Fugio. NO PLASTIC TOMB TO RUIN ITS NATURAL APPEARANCE.
I accept only bank-wired funds and USPS money orders. Absolutely NO RETURNS- NEVER – EVER; I DON'T SELL MY GEMS TO WIMPS!
Coin includes a Certificate of Authenticity with a real “golden seal” and a small rock chiseled from Medusa who turned to stone
Stop whining about Fugios (this means you too, Dorkkarl) and buy it now, or eat your cowardly hearts out for the next 200 years.
NOTE - THE REVERSE HAS A LARGER DIAMETER THAN THE OBVERSE
Well, I have a proposal for all you whiners, wimps and sissies complaining about Fugios' appearance. BUY MINE NOW!
Yes, my Fugio is a real macho man’s Fugio, a Fugio for the he-man collector who knows that most Fugios have seen a lot of history and been through some really rough times. I took my Fugio to Greece, sought out the fabled Medusa, who is so ugly that if you look at her, she will turn you to stone. Using an elaborate system of mirrors and, sadly, mourning the loss of my translator who “looked”, Medusa looked at my Fugio and turned to stone!
So, if any of you guys complaining about the looks of Fugios have any guts, I dare you - double dare you - to purchase my Fugio. It has NOT been unnaturally oiled, cooked, or played with. All if its wear is NATURAL. Eight years – count them – eight, in a tannery. Buried for 43 years in a dung pile on a New England dairy farm. Six years left in a sock full of Fugios used by Caribbean pirates as a weapon – and those pirates had really smelly socks. 112 years at the bottom of the East River in Harlem – the corrosion and porosity on my Fugio is 100% natural – no artificial toning here – who needs AT when you can have the real thing. THIS COIN IS UNIQUE – NO OTHER FUGIO IN THE UNIVERSE HAS HAD THE EXACT SAME HISTORY – NONE!
For only 24 hours I am offering this UNIQUE piece of American History (if you don’t buy it you are an unpatriotic, un-American scumbag) for only $1234.00 plus $67 NON-INSURED S&H or $98.73 for INSURED S&H.
So all Fugio cowards – chronic Fugio complainers – put your money where you mouth (or mouse) is and buy this UNIQUE, 100% natural, organically aged Fugio. NO PLASTIC TOMB TO RUIN ITS NATURAL APPEARANCE.
I accept only bank-wired funds and USPS money orders. Absolutely NO RETURNS- NEVER – EVER; I DON'T SELL MY GEMS TO WIMPS!
Coin includes a Certificate of Authenticity with a real “golden seal” and a small rock chiseled from Medusa who turned to stone
Stop whining about Fugios (this means you too, Dorkkarl) and buy it now, or eat your cowardly hearts out for the next 200 years.
NOTE - THE REVERSE HAS A LARGER DIAMETER THAN THE OBVERSE
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I realize you didn't mention anything about an auction, but I will still start the bidding at $1 (though I wont pay for shipping if I win it).
Clankeye
I'll double Clankeye's 2 cent bid to 4 cents (you provide postage). That's probably over copper melt value!
Oh - He bid $2 -- I guess I'm out of this auction -- It's too rich for me!
Stuart
Collect 18th & 19th Century US Type Coins, Silver Dollars, $20 Gold Double Eagles and World Crowns & Talers with High Eye Appeal
"Luck is what happens when Preparation meets Opportunity"
I deeply regret that the coin looks better than the photo shows. The date (sadly) is very clear, and "MIND YO" of "MIND YOUR BUSINESS" is clearly visible. "WE and R and ON" of "WE ARE ONE" is also clear. Some nice, very pretty sea-green verdigris enhances the obverse detail. The nicks and dents on the rim are from where the pirate's sock full of Fugios hit the victims on their heads.
FanofModerns
<< <i>The nicks and dents on the rim are from where the pirate's sock full of Fugios hit the victims on their heads. >>
LOL--I love it.
You should be writing auction descriptions for Heritage.
Clankeye
Pushkin: Would you therefore designate the marks as sockmarks or head-banger marks ?
Stuart
Collect 18th & 19th Century US Type Coins, Silver Dollars, $20 Gold Double Eagles and World Crowns & Talers with High Eye Appeal
"Luck is what happens when Preparation meets Opportunity"
hey pushkin, that is the first time i have ever seen a fugio struck on a tootsie-roll planchet. amazing that it was struck through camel turds as well. didn't know they could grow penicillin on dung!
K S
<< <i>Would you therefore designate the marks as sockmarks or head-banger marks ? >>
I believe the appropriate appellation is "sock lines" and "head-banger rim nicks". ANACS refused to give an attribution for the odor, so I told them to take their cheap, scratched-up "modern" plastic and stick it in the oven.
It looks like a kidney stone somebody passed.
<< <i>hey pushkin, that is the first time i have ever seen a fugio struck on a tootsie-roll planchet. amazing that it was struck through camel turds as well. didn't know they could grow penicillin on dung! >>
Talk is cheap Dorkkarl - put up some green stuff - and I don't mean verdigris - or go back to plastic coffin bashing.
Today a Bank of New York hoard R&B Unc. Fugio is going to cost you $4 grand. If you are a collector who does not have $4 grand, or you don’t want $4 grand in a Fugio, the coin that started the first thread on this series of posts is a viable option. You can pick at it all you want, but you can pick on virtually any 200 year old American copper coin if you want. None of them are perfect. There’s nothing wrong with buying a coin with defects if the price is adjusted for the problems.
This coin was lot 232 of Stack's Ford sale where it opened at $500 and sold for $6k. It was catalogued as choice XF and at lot viewing I graded the coin VF 35 noting 'dark crud in reverse rings.' Now you can buy it 'wholesale' for $14,000!!linkd
<< <i>Of course of you don't like Pushkin's coin you can always jump at this >>
I think they should stick with my coin; the buyer knows exactly what he/she is getting, and my modest profit will go to a good cause - more coins for me. Besides, Heritage isn't offering a "Golden Seal of Authenticity" and I'll bet that high priced coin of theirs doesn't even come with the natural odor of 200+ years of history. I would NEVER sell a coin at wholesale - you lose money!
Please include a scratch and sniff. I'm not sure I believe you about the Pirate.
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
Thomas Paine
..............Coin Number 1 ...............................or .......................Coin Number 2....................or..................... Coin Number 3
<< <i>Could you possibly scan a better pic and send it to me? >>
Absolutely not! A better picture will make the coin look better.
Coin 2 is real and grades PR-01
Coin3 has been called a New Haven Restrike. It's not a restrike because it was made from mid 19th century dies, not from original Fugio cent dies. It's got skinny rings on the reverse, which is the big give-away. The sun's face on the obverse that is shaped like home plate is the other give-away.
<< <i>Talk is cheap Dorkkarl - put up some green stuff - and I don't mean verdigris - or go back to plastic coffin bashing. >>
i would put up some green stuff, but i got my camel turds conserved over at NCS. they aren't green any more - they've got that blast-white look! i bet they could help out your "coin".
K S
<< <i>i would put up some green stuff, but i got my camel turds conserved over at NCS. they aren't green any more - they've got that blast-white look! i bet they could help out your "coin". >>
Ha, ha
My Fugio will NEVER see the dark of plastic or the conservationist's scalpel - I'm a "pure" purist.
My great, great, grandfather Clankeye of Cornwall was killed by a sock full of Fugio's to the head.
Maybe you should be a little more sensitive before joking about that stuff?
Clankeye
<< <i>Maybe you should be a little more sensitive before joking about that stuff? >>
I lost my sensitivity (it was a more traumatic event than losing my - well, never mind) after attending my first coin show and shyly asking a dealer why he was charging so much for a cleaned, AT'd, holed common date coin.
I'd be happy to have a DNA test performed on the coin to see if it was partially responsible for your ancestor's traumatic demise. Please forward a check for $2316.83.
Regards,
Pushkin
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<< <i>Bill, I believe #3 is a modern copy of a New Haven restrike not a "real" one. >>
Conder101 is correct.
Coin No.1 is a Royal Oak Mint "COPY"
Coin No.2 is an authentic Fugio Cent
Coin No.3 is a New Haven restrike "COPY"
Coin No.4 is the nice Fugio that I have been hoping to buy for three years now but still have not located.
Everyone should have a "good luck" coin, you know, the kind you can carry in your pocket and take out and look at once in a while with absolutly no fear that you would lower the grade or damage the coin and this coin sure meets that critiria !!!
Les
BTW, "Ba$tard" is perfectly legitimate word, especially when it is used in the context that is is used here. I don't care for censorship feedback that I got on this post ONE BIT!
<< <i>Now we have copies of coins that were copies of older coins >>
True,
About a year or so back I saw an eBay seller passing these "copies of cpoies" of as legitimate, with a long-winded song-and-dance, and bidders paying large sums for junk. The Royal Oak Mint copies are fairly good; that is they look OK if you just want to see what a "new" Fugio looks like. A good picture of the restrike copies shows how bad they are - sorry my picture was so poor - which caused them to look more "real" than they actually are.