What The Fugio...?

saintguru

post your Fugin' Fugio's please...

Barndog

not mine

123cents

BS

Sorry, I can't post images.

mrearlygold

Your into Colonials now?

Hyperion

one day I will own one of these babies

Connecticoin

<< <i>Sorry, I can't post images. >>



Here you go:

Edit: Very cool Fugio!

MikeKing

<< <i>Your into Colonials now? >>



I knew he'd get tired of those damn Saints.

GoldenEyeNumismatics

weren't there about 2000 UNC Fugios that were recovered from a bank 6o or 70 decades ago?

Cladiator

<< <i>6o or 70 decades ago? >>

600 or 700 years ago?

MikeKing

this is a quote from Fugio:

" On July 9, 1789, a New York merchant named Royal Flint purchased all of the Fugios remaining in the Treasury on credit at about one-third face value. However thirteen days later on July 20 a copper panic occurred devaluing most coppers by about seventy-five per cent of their value; this loss landed Flint in debtor's prison. Apparently, a full keg of uncirculated Fugios were acquired by the Bank of New York in 1788; these coins were stored in their basement and not rediscovered until they changed their location in 1856. The coins were then put in cotton bags and again forgotten until another rediscovery in 1926. From that time, they were slowly distributed to officials and favored customers. In 1948, the American Numismatic Society examined the remaining 1,641 Fugio's. Several examples were donated to the American Numismatic Society and others were sold to collectors. Currently the bank has 819 pieces."

notwilight

You probably thought I posted my Fugio in the WT thread last night.

Here is my other Fugio. This is from the collection of my best friend/high school teacher who has now moved into a rest home. He put together 99% of a type set during the 90's. Expensive coins were mostly poor, cheap coins were pretty good. I gave him most of the difficult coins as birthday and Christmas presents including a birth year MS63 Saint (1924). It wasn't very expensive but was well beyond a Teacher's retirement fixed income. Unfortunately, all his coins were stolen when he became infirm except for some Modern Crap and his large cents which I now have. He is vicariously enjoying my re-entry into the numismatics in our daily phone calls.

Fletcher

notwilight

Fletch,
I assume yours is one of the Bank of New York Fugios. Is that what you believe? Very nice. --Jerry

TwoSides2aCoin

fletcher ole boy, I never know if you are posturing or just bragging.

I cannot post what is in my dreams


Joe

Fletcher

<< <i>Fletch,
I assume yours is one of the Bank of New York Fugios. Is that what you believe? >>



Yes, I am quite sure that it was part of the Bank of New York hoard as it is an 8-B. However, this variety is still considered scarce and there are only 170 of these @ PCGS as opposed to the 13-X of which there are 764 certified.

The original Kessler book is a GREAT resource for these!

notwilight

Where do you get your variety pops since PCGS doesn't provide these variety attributions? -jerry

ColonialCoinUnion

<< <i>Where do you get your variety pops since PCGS doesn't provide these variety attributions? -jerry >>



Fletcher is giving you the UNITED STATES vs STATES UNITED pops, which don't exactly correspond to the KN numbers.

Coxe

KN-4E (NGC AU58)

ColonialCoinUnion

I always post this one every time a Fugio thread comes up -

notwilight

Ok. I got off my lazy butt and logged into the pop report and see that either way, Fletcher's coin is pop 1, best known to PCGS. --Jerry

stev32k

Here's mine. It's not nearly as nice as Fletcher's, but still one of my favorite coins - warts and all

saintguru

<< <i>Your into Colonials now? >>



No...I just liked the play on Fugio/Fugin'