1787 Fugio Cent. Pointed Rays. Newman 18-X, W-6965. Rarity-6+. STATES UNITED, 4 Cinquefoils. Fine Details--Environmental Damage (PCGS).
141.4 grains. A reliably rare variety in the Fugio series, the 18-X was not listed in the original 1949 Newman monograph, and now hovers around the same rarity as several other post-Newman discoveries made in the third quarter of the 20th century, with 13 specimens documented to exist. This specimen is pleasant if imperfect, its golden-brown surfaces uniformly lightly granular, with some minor reverse pitting and a spot of verdigris on left side of sundial. Many of the known specimens are impaired in some fashion, exemplified by the fact that three of the four specimens listed in our online archives are in PCGS "details" holders. This example was ranked in fourth place on the Retz census, and it has the added mystique of a pedigree to the fabled "Marshals sale" of 2000, where rarities were often piled up into group lots, evidenced by the eight-coin lot that contained this coin. It had been nearly a decade since we sold an example of this variety before the appearance of the porous VF Star of Texas coin in our Spring 2022 Baltimore Auction. If you need a Newman 18-X, best to secure this one now, lest another decade passes before another example comes to auction.
PCGS# 878111.
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From the Sydney F. Martin Collection. Earlier from the U.S. Marshals Service Auction by Manheim Auctions Government Services, July 2000, part of lot 102; Donald Scarinci Collection, November 2010.

Estimate: $4500