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Fugio Cent
After: Abel Buell (American, 1742–1825)
Struck by: Scovill Mfg. Co. (operated in Waterbury, 1820–1905)
Struck by: Scovill Mfg. Co. (operated in Waterbury, 1820–1905)
American Confederation Period
dated 1787, restruck about 1860
Object Place: New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Medium/Technique
Silver
Dimensions
Diameter and weight: 30 mm, 13.21 gm (1 3/16 in., 0.47 oz.)
Credit Line
Augustine Shurtleff Collection of Coins
Accession Number01.228
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsNumismatics – Coins
Catalogue Raisonné
Breen 1320
DescriptionObv: (rosette) FUGIO. (rosette) / (rosette) 1787 (rosette) around a sundial with a sun shining above it and MIND YOUR / BUSINESS in the exergue below, the whole surrounded by a toothed rim
Rev: A thin chain of thireen links around a circle imprinted with (rosette) UNITED (rosette) STATES and enclosing WE / ARE / ONE, the whole surrounded by a toothed rim
Edge: plain
This is a "New Haven" restrike of the Fugio Cent which was actually struck at Scovill's in Waterbury about 1860. This example has the sun with the pointed chin and the broken end on the final 7 in the date.
Rev: A thin chain of thireen links around a circle imprinted with (rosette) UNITED (rosette) STATES and enclosing WE / ARE / ONE, the whole surrounded by a toothed rim
Edge: plain
This is a "New Haven" restrike of the Fugio Cent which was actually struck at Scovill's in Waterbury about 1860. This example has the sun with the pointed chin and the broken end on the final 7 in the date.