August 2023 Global Showcase Auction – 14 - 21 August 2023
Live Sessions: Ancient and World Coins, Currency
Part B: Tu, 15.08.2023, from 6:00 PM CEST
Part D: Tu, 15.08.2023, from 6:00 PM CEST
Part 2: Tu, 15.08.2023, from 9:00 PM CEST
Part C: Tu, 15.08.2023, from 10:00 PM CEST
Part 3: We, 16.08.2023, from 5:00 PM CEST
Part 4: We, 16.08.2023, from 7:00 PM CEST
Part 5: We, 16.08.2023, from 10:00 PM CEST
Part 6: Th, 17.08.2023, from 12:00 AM CEST
Part E: Th, 17.08.2023, from 6:00 PM CEST
Part 7: Th, 17.08.2023, from 8:00 PM CEST
Part 8: Fr, 18.08.2023, from 5:00 PM CEST
Part 9: Sa, 19.08.2023, from 1:00 AM CEST
Part 10: Sa, 19.08.2023, from 5:00 PM CEST
Part F: Mo, 21.08.2023, from 4:00 PM CEST
Description
1787 Fugio Cent. Pointed Rays. Newman 10-T, W-6705. Rarity-5-. STATES UNITED, 1/Horizontal 1. EF-40 (PCGS).
150.8 grains. A lovely example, golden brown with lighter olive brown on the worn high points of the devices and legends. Well struck and well-centered on a well-made flan, absent the usual planchet flaws that can plague Fugio cents, though the Newman 10-T combination is usually found on better than average planchets. A few marks on the surfaces may be found, a thin, worn-out old hairline meandering through the sun's rays until it stops at the top of the gnomon. This example is ranked number 9 on the Retz census, and though finer examples exist, they can be in a wholly different value range, such as the PCGS AU-55 Pierre Fricke specimen that sold for $26,400 in our November 2021 Baltimore Sale.
PCGS# 878086.
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From the Sydney F. Martin Collection. Earlier from our (Bowers and Merena's) sale of the Sussex Collection, June 1990, lot 4009; Donald Scarinci Collection, November 2010.
Estimate: $5000
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Bidding
| Price realized | 3'600 USD |
| Starting price | 1 USD |
| Estimate | 5'000 USD |
