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I found a colonial road leading into state property about 20 min from my house.
I've been wanting to make my way to this site for a few months. I hiked about 10 min in and saw the hole was on posted property (water co) :no: The other side of the colonial road was state property. So I hit the fields across from the hole and found my first 1787 Fugio. The other items were found after work this week at another location. The button looks to have a picture of a bird where the shank should be :thinkingabout::. The indian is not a pointed and the wheat is 1919...or 1929...39? 49? :grin: who knows.
Thank you, Drew
 

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[move] :cheering: :cheering: :cheering:[size=36pt]First fugio congrats Drew :cheering: :cheering: :cheering:[/move]

it looks like it might clean up pretty nice too. good luck and hope you find many more Drew |:cheering: |:cheering:
 
:wow: Congrats on the Fugio. It does look like it may clean up good. You can see the impressions of we are one on the back. Theres a lot of history around that coin.
 
OK! Found it, Sweet!

On April 21, 1787, the Continental Congress of the United States authorized a design for an official penny, later referred to as the Fugio cent
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This is soooooo cool! What a piece of history!
 

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del link=topic=9662.msg108486#msg108486 date=1334452210 said:
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[move] :cheering: :cheering: :cheering:[size=36pt]First fugio congrats Drew :cheering: :cheering: :cheering:[/move]

it looks like it might clean up pretty nice too. good luck and hope you find many more Drew |:cheering: |:cheering:
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This is the best reply I've ever received, thanks Dan
Thanks for the pic Cody,
Thanks for nice thoughts everyone.
 
charlives link=topic=9662.msg108581#msg108581 date=1334524588 said:
This is the best reply I've ever received, thanks Dan
Thanks for the pic Cody,
Thanks for nice thoughts everyone.
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your welcome Drew , i've been waiting for you or Brandon to get a hold of one . their one of my favorite coins an in my opinion one of the upper tier coppers to find . i'm hoping you can get it cleaned up well enough to i.d. the variety , it would be nice to see another rare one.

Dan
 
Here it is a little cleaner....with water on it. Best I can tell its a Newman 15-H. :thinkingabout:
 

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Congratulations Drew on your incredible find .That is a beauty , it sure held up well . It must be fantastic to make a find like that , I don't think I would be able to put it down or stop looking at it .
Gotta love these T2s . :beerbuddy:
 
del link=topic=9662.msg108736#msg108736 date=1334601611 said:
the variety Newman-15 obverse is well known for its die crack on the right lower side of the sundial's base out to the edge like this one
http://www.coins.nd.edu/fugio/Newman1-24/fugio.15-H.obv.jpg


i wish i could help you on the i.d. but i just can't see enough detail from the picture , what source did you use to come to that variety??

heres a pretty good link to id-ing fugios Drew.
http://www.coins.nd.edu/fugio/Newman1-24/

Dan
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Thanks for the link Dan, It had more examples than the link I was using. Ok, now I have it narrowed down, (in Get Smart voice) would you believvve.....18-H ex.1 or 18-H ex.2? :grin:
I looked at every we are one on the reverses. Those are the only two that match. They must have set those letters differently for each strike.
 

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Drew , its a lot easier to figure out the obverses than the reverses . the key areas to look at on the obverses are the dot that separates mind and Your it sits above the I in Business but will sit closer to one edge than the other . also where the R in Your is in relation to the letters under it and the designed base of the sundial , there are a few more key spots but those can get you a good indicator of what you have for the front . the back in my opinion is a lot more difficult to narrow down as everything is more subtle .

Dan
 
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