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1787 Fugio Cent - New Haven Restrike, Silver

Strike Type
1787 Colonials coin

Coin Details

Year
1787
Denomination
Colonials
Strike Type
Restrike
Series
Proposed National Issues (1776-1787)
Composition
Silver
Edge
Plain

Description

This is a New Haven restrike of the Fugio cent struck in silver. The pieces called New Haven restrikes were long said to come from original dies found in the Broome and Platt store at New Haven, where the Fugio cents had been coined; Crosby and Newman both tell that story. Later research, reported in dealers' catalogs and on the Notre Dame colonial coin pages, holds that they were struck about 1860 from new dies, probably by the Scovill Manufacturing Company of Waterbury for Horatio N. Rust (search). PCGS number 915.

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