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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jester3681, post: 2461707, member: 53130&quot;]The Fugio is a late state 8-X, fairly common. A Bank of New York coin. Examples are plentiful - I was actually looking at this item when Doug reached out to me. I was seriously considering buying - the seller describes it as a split plantchet and his pictures are misleading. Not saying this is intentional or dishonest. I have a bad habit of doing most of my shopping and Cointalking on my phone, so images are small and difficult to enlarge for better viewing.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just as a learning experience for anyone interested in Fugios, the 8-X in its last two die states can *easily* be identified by the halfmoon die crack across the better part of the lower obverse. This was the terminal die state for obverse die #8. One of those identifiers that you can use, even in well worn examples. </p><p><br /></p><p>My 8-X is significantly double struck, but this identifier allows concrete identification, even though part of the second strike and poor planchet quality mask much of the lower obverse:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]516237[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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