Actually there are well over 200 varieties for 1787! This one is 33.19-Z.2 which is a rarity 5 variety. Rarity 5 translates to 46-60 known...
Speared olive bud, nice!
Nice coin but not nearly valuable enough to have slabbed.
More than I can store properly, and they still keep coming!
Absolutely! On the rare occasion someone on one of those groups comes up with a common date Indian cent or v nickel, and all the responses just...
Absolutely true, I follow a couple of the facebook coin collecting groups and they are just unbelievable. One of my favorite common questions is,...
1799 is definitely my white whale!
I wonder what they are generally plated with, chrome? Certainly shinier than zinc.
It is quite ironic, of all the 1787 varieties these are both the same one, 38-l.2! This is an R4 variety, 117-158 known.
It's actually right around 350, most of which are 1787. I just hit 79 varieties. I especially like the 1788's, which were all made at machin's Mills.
Now that one saw some circulation!
Me too, I've seen them posted a lot on the metal detecting forums, but I've only found the British ones.
I'd love to find a Fugio in any condition! My area wasn't settled until the late 1790's and most of the coinage of the early settlers seems to be...
I guess it depends on which "Hibernia" coin. The regular Irish half pennies with Hibernia on the reverse and Wood's 1722-1724 Hibernia coppers...
James Jarvis got copper from the government to make the Fugio cents, much of which was used to strike Connecticut coppers instead. Some of this...
I agree, just circulation damage and environmental damage.
I imagine the merchants got them for less than a cent each, so by giving them out as change it was a win win situation.
I dabbled with Civil War tokens 10 or so years ago, you're making me want to get them out again!
Exactly, not to mention whatever fuel you use to melt them, electricity, gas, would cost you more than you'd make!
This one doesn't look like much, but it is a 33.28-Z.20 currently only 8 known. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
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