1787 Fugio 1C Club Rays, FUCIO, BN MS(PCGS#907)

May 2019 Baltimore U.S. Coins Auction

拍卖行

Stack's Bowers

批号

3270

等级

XF40BN

价格

157,534

详细说明

Condition Census Newman 2-C Fugio Copper Rare and Popular FUCIO Error 1787 Fugio Copper. Club Rays. Newman 2-C, W-6630. Rarity-6. Concave Ends, FUCIO, UNITED STATES. EF-40 (PCGS). 174.9 grains. A superb example of this highly elusive and extremely popular variety, finer than the flawed Norweb specimen, the Kessler plate piece and the harshly cleaned Hancock coin. Both sides of this piece are toned in light olive-brown. There are some scattered areas of darker color on the obverse, one larger area at the lower left reverse border. Exceptionally nice detail can be seen in the sundial's numerals, while the sun face still shows some definition when the coin is held in a raking light. The fields are microgranular, with some heavier roughness visible below the sundial on the obverse, at the upper right border on the reverse, and elsewhere around the peripheries on both sides. There is a small flan flaw, pinprick size, above the letter F in FUCIO, while the reverse is essentially flawless. A tiny edge bump on the obverse at about 5:45 is noted, along with a few very small edge nicks elsewhere on that side. Struck from the apparently perfect state of both dies. The FUCIO error occurred when the die engraver failed to add by hand a short crossbar to the punched letter C that would have turned it into a G. It seems that there was no G letter punch available at that time. An impressive and significant example of the variety, this coin was ranked just behind the Roper-Ayers specimen in the Retz census, which coin brought $32,900 as lot 1334 in our August 2013 sale of the Ayers Collection. Provenance: Ex Henry Chapman's sale of the Matthew Adams Stickney Collection, June 1907, lot 1461; Hillyer C. Ryder; F.C.C. Boyd estate; our (Stack's) sale of the John J. Ford, Jr. Collection, Part I, October 2003, lot 235. PCGS# 907. Click here for certification details from PCGS.