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airplanenut
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Who cares about the plastic or whether it's the finest known of 2 billion... just post something you like.
I spent about a decade searching for a nice Fugio within my budget, and ended up with this.
I spent about a decade searching for a nice Fugio within my budget, and ended up with this.
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And a Superbird to boot!
In honor of the memory of Cpl. Michael E. Thompson
PCGS and I disagree on the grade, but I really love the look of the coin.
Mike
<< <i>Looked for one like this forever and now she is mine.
That is a great looking coin Tom.
<< <i>Looked for one like this forever and now she is mine.
Tom, here's a '92-S that would look lovely alongside your gorgeous '93-S. Taken as a trade, I decided to keep it even though I am not a Morgan guy. But you have been very good to me.
Lance.
Now I have one I really like.
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<< <i>Looked for one like this forever and now she is mine.
That is a great looking coin Tom. >>
Darn skippy it is, and you still suck Tom
Here's one of my favorites... I LOVE this coin. Yes, the pic sucks, yes I gotta grab them from the bank and get em imaged... but...
<< <i>I dreamed about finding this coin as a kid and must have looked at 10 gazillion pennies hoping and hoping.
Now I have one I really like.
Dang, John. That's a beauty. I have a 62BN I wish had a fraction of all that red. Yours really should be a 64RB, don't you think?
Lance.
"She comes out of the sun in a silk dress,
running like a water color in the rain...."
I totally think this one has enough red to go RB.
I think they called it brown due to the toning.
Here are my pics that are more representative of the coin in hand.
Even the TruView pics can't deny a bit of red hanging around the devices.
Lance.
Pistareen posted this in a "splasher" thread in 2006 and it summarizes why I like them.
Most folks call them cliches (with an accent aigu over the e). Jefferson, and thus probably Jean-Pierre Droz and Augustin Dupre, called them eprueves (with the same accent on the first e).
Splashers is the most useful term, though, because it says what it really is -- a splash of hot metal that suddenly cools. You can heat soft type metal (pretty much just pewter or "white metal") on a kitchen stove or a hotplate. Basically you take a piece of paper, pour a dollop of super-soft molten metal out, push your die in, and -- voila! -- a cooled splasher is finished in a few seconds. The paper is pretty much there just so you don't scorch your tabletop.
I love splashers, since they were poured by the engraver/sculptor himself (or herself). Some are called "progress proofs" -- these are impressions from the die when it is not yet done. Like Shamika said, a not-yet-hardened die could be damaged if it was struck in something hard, but pushing it into a splash of molten pewter is pretty harmless.
These things are extremely rare because 1) they are fragile and 2) they were not meant to be saved.
1) Fragile, yes. Crumbling in your hand, no. I keep mine in stiff cardboard envelopes and they're just fine. I wouldn't chew on it or try to fold it, but as long as it is handled carefully it will not fall apart.
2) They were just a temporary, even momentary, way to see what a product would look like if the die was ready to make a finished product. The earliest ones I've seen are French, ca. 1770. The US Mint was using the technique through the 1870s or so.
To answer your other questions -- yes I've seen them in person and yes I have seen one slabbed. NGC slabbed a Standard Silver half dollar splasher that an ANR client discovered and consigned to us. I do not believe they graded it. Value is a function of supply and demand like anything else. I own a splasher made in 1787 by famed French sculptor/engraver/inventor Jean-Pierre Droz that I think I paid $120 for. I also handled splashers made for the 1790 Diplomatic Medal (made for the US govt in France) that were worth about $10K each. Most are in the middle.
In my opinion, US pattern splashers are vastly undervalued when compared to their rarity and history. Of course, they're not as pretty as a toned Amazonian quarter. But there are no guarantees the engraver ever handled an Amazonian quarter, which is downright common by comparison!
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<< <i>Among the circulated coins in my collection, this is my favorite. So very pleasing to look at and so very original. A perfect XF and the model for the RE set. I still haven't found another date to match it in eye appeal and originality...
coinlieutenant, with your original RE lady entry I hereby promote you to coincaptain!!!
Ron
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<< <i>airplanenut - you and me both - I too always wanted a Fugio and it is one of my favorites:
i like catbert. its one of my favorites as well
<< <i>Kinda fond of this one.
Mike >>
DANG!
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