1787 Fugio 1C Club Rays, Rounded Ends, BN MS(PCGS#904)

The November 2012 Baltimore Auction

拍卖行

Stack's Bowers

批号

6771

等级

AU53BN

价格

40,297

详细说明

Condition Census Club Rays Fugio Newman 4-E 1787 Fugio Copper. Club Rays. Newman 4-E, W-6685. Rarity-3. Rounded Ends. AU-53 (PCGS). Thought to be second finest known by Rob, certainly one of the best ones seen by this cataloger. Glorious rich chocolate brown surfaces show superb mint gloss and some remaining frosty luster. The rim shows a natural flaw above IO of FUGIO and a short striation divides 17 of the date. The sharpness is magnificent and the eye appeal is heads and shoulders above what most "nice" examples of this Club Rays varieties show. The ideal centering even shows denticles under BUSINESS at the base of the obverse. PCGS has never certified a Mint State example, and Rob knew of none; the coin he deemed finest is the Garrett coin, ex: Ellsworth, now in a New York City collection. The two Boyd-Ford coins were ranked third and fourth by Rob; the first of those was cataloged as "finest known." Rob's top nine pieces were graded AU or EF, including pieces in the 1995 and 1996 C4 sales, the Norweb coin, and the Newman coin, which serves as the main Newman (2008) plate coin. Die state equivalent to Newman (2008) state C, with a very fine die crack to O in FUGIO and a filled base of the 8 in the date. Rare indeed are Club Rays Fugios graded AU or better. Rarer still are ones with this kind of original skin and luster. PCGS# 904. Provenance: From the Rob Retz Family Collection. Earlier, from our (Stack's) sale of March 1994, Lot 418. PCGS Population: 4; 2 finer (AU-58 finest).