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Fugio Cent

Designed and engraved by: Abel Buell (American, 1742–1825)
Struck by: James Jarvis (American)
American Confederation Period
1787
Mint: New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Medium/Technique Copper
Dimensions Diameter and weight: 28 mm, 10.76 gm (1 1/8 in., 0.38 oz.)
Credit Line The Sidney A. and Ellen M. Wien Collection—Given in their memory by Claire W. and Richard P. Morse
Accession Number2004.1152
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CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsNumismaticsCoins

Catalogue Raisonné Breen 1310-12
DescriptionObv: (rosette) FUGIO. (rosette) / (rosette) 1787 (rosette) around a sundial with a sun shining above it and MIND (ornament) YOUR (ornament) / BUSINESS (ornament) in the exergue below, the whole surrounded by a toothed rim
Rev: A thick chain of thireen links around a circle imprinted with (rosette) STATES (rosette) UNITED and enclosing WE / ARE / ONE, the whole surrounded by a toothed rim
Edge: plain
ProvenanceCollected by Sidney A. Wien (1902-1962), Atlanta, Georgia, between the mid-1940's and 1962; by descent to his daughter, Claire W. Morse, in 1962; to the MFA in November 2004, gift of Claire W. and Richard P. Morse.