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Are you using a specific website to find these old papers? I'd love to find one of those fugios, but highly unlikely in Ohio.
Neat !!!!
Since the article had it valued at between $25 and $100 way back in 1898 I wonder what the value would be now !
Depending on the shape and variety, which there are many including restrikes and fakes, legitimate specimens anywhere from hundreds to thousands to hundreds of thousands.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_New_York_Hoard
Depending on the shape and variety, which there are many including restrikes and fakes, legitimate specimens anywhere from hundreds to thousands to hundreds of thousands.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_New_York_Hoard
Thanks for that link, on that link it included -
"The bank kept 819 of the remaining coins which range in grade from mint state to corroded due to past water damage while in storage. Despite the merger which led to the banks closure in 2007, it was reported in 2013 that the coins still remain on the property. The owners have refused to distribute the remaining coins, and have kept them for historical value and appreciation."
.....could you imagine the value if even only 10% of those 819 are in mint condition ?
I can imagine.............thats about all I can do..........I can also imagine the cotton bag they were stored in with a little bitty hole in it
Thanks for the link, a quote from it reads:
Sometime in 1788, a keg of Fugio cents were acquired by the bank and
stored in the basement. The coins were forgotten about until they were
rediscovered in 1856, this time at the banks current location. At that time the
coins were placed in cotton bags and put away until a final rediscovery of
the coins was made in 1926.[1] The coins were then given out as souvenirs
and keepsakes to clients until 1948.
Kegs? Cotton bags? Souvenirs? Where's that time travel machine Mr Peabody?