1787 Fugio Cent NGC Vs You

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The Carlyle A. Luer Collection

Our Senior Numismatist, Mark Borckardt, noted that the FUN auction offers an amazing number of 1793 coppers, including seven 1793 Half Cents, 26 Chain cents, 28 Wreath cents, and five Liberty Cap cents. This gathering of 1793 coppers is unequaled for a Signature® auction, in our memory. Some of these pieces come from The Carlyle A. Luer Collection, which focuses on Colonials and early large cents. The Luer Collection includes 11 of the aforementioned 1793 cents. The collection is especially rich in important 1794 large cents, several that came from the C. Douglas Smith with his typewritten envelopes, that the New York collector sold to Alfred Bonard in 1965. Others have Dorothy Paschal's typewritten envelopes. Highlights include a 1794 S-19a Head of 1793 cent that is tied for seventh finest known, a Condition Census 1794 S-25 cent that is graded AU53 NGC, a 1794 S-51 cent graded AU Details that is tied for finest known, and a 1794 S-64 Missing Fraction Bar cent that is certified MS62 Brown NGC and tied for second finest known. Other important pieces from the Carlyle A. Luer Collection include a Sommer Island sixpence, Small Portholes variety, graded VF25 NGC, and a 1652 Noe-1 Pine Tree Shilling graded MS62 NGC.