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UNDATED FUGIO CENT -
NEWMAN 101-EE (Silver)
Rarity: 2 known
Variety equivalents:
Notes:
Obverse: unfinished Fugio Cent style die, with a sundial in the
center and a sun with a sharply defined semicircle of rays surrounding.
Reverse: thirteen circles
in a never-ending link, each circle containing a five-pointed
star. Normal "UNITED STATES / WE ARE ONE" configuration
at center except that stubby rays emanate in all directions from the
round label.
Believed to be a 19th
century fantasy.
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Known examples (2):
1. "Proof-60 or thereabouts, perhaps lightly cleaned long ago,
lightly brushed as well." Ex - Chapman Brothers sale of the
C.T. Whitman collection, May 1893 - R.C.H. Brock - gifted to the
University of Pennsylvania - John J. Ford, Jr. (New Netherlands Coin
Company) - Dr. James Sloss - Stack's sale of the Dr. David L. Spence
collection, March 1975, Lot 745 - Bowers and Merena Galleries
"The Rarities Sale", January 8, 2002, Lot 5, illustrated,
"152.7 grains...28.2 mm...", sold for $5,060.00.
2. Garrett (1980).
Sources and/or recommended
reading:
"The Early Coins of
America" by Sylvester S. Crosby
"The Fugio Cents" by Alan
Kessler
"Walter Breen's Encyclopedia of
U.S. and Colonial Coins" by Walter Breen
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