Just Reported This One - Fugio

Do the same rules apply for marking it a copy if it's not legal tender? Technically, you could go into a store and buy a gum ball with a chain cent, but not a fugio cent.

Kind of my thoughts exactly. We don't have it in hand therefore, we can't weigh it. Looks very thin though...at least from what I can see from the sellers pic.

The Hobby Protection Act requires imitation numismatic items to be marked with COPY. They define imitation numismatic item to be something that represents itself as a genuine numismatic item but which it is not. Legal tender status does not matter. World coins, ancients, tokens, and medals are all numismatic items even though none are legal tender. Fantasy CSA coin are purporting to be numismatic items, Confederate coins, so they need to be marked as well. This is why I believe Carr's fantasies need to be marked. They purport to be 1964-D Peace dollars, 1931 SLQ, 1964 Franklin half etc but they are not, so they need to be marked as well according to the law.

That's my point. If you don't mention that at all, you have plausible deniability ("I found it at an estate sale!").

I asked him if was actually a Gallery mint copy. His answer was "How can you tell if it is or not?"

That's "how you can tell if it is or not!" I still wish I knew what exactly this thing was, though, and the path it took to this listing as a genuine Fugio.

Say what you will about the Gallery Mint Museum, cast copies don't seem to be what they made. Was this seller trying to lie twice in the same listing? "It's the real thing! Don't buy that?... OK, how about, it's one of those really good copies they used to make! No good?... OK, it's chocolate, but it's that really good chocolate, from, like, Belgium or something! No?... Um... Would you believe....."