Notice anything other than the wear? They both have the Carson City mint marks. The 1977-CC had 1,420,000 minted and the 1876-CC had 1,956,000 minted. Both are over $100 coins, even in this condition. That and the low price I paid were the reasons I know own them.
I collected a small hoard of 1876-CC Lady Libertys raw off eBay on the hunch that they would appreciate over time with the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence approaching. PCGS XF40 PCGS F15
Here are my 1877-CCs. PCGS XF45 PCGS VF30 - color adjusted to better represent coin. This is a really nice coin except for the "rubber burns."
A friend of mine found an 1853 seated quarter in AU while hunting a field where a Civil War recruitment site was located. It came out of the ground lustrous and free of staining like it had been dropped last week. All I found were some corroded Indian head cents. The site was in Lower Marlboro, MD.
Look at it carefully. You can see the shadow of the glove on the top part of the coin. Weird angle and lightning. It's not Photoshop nor AI I can find the video of the find if you've never seen it.
Aha! That's what it is. Optical illusion! I wasn't doubting your find- I remember you posting it. The picture just looked weird, is all.
Over $100? Really? I sold this G6 for $90 two years ago. What do you think it is worth today? Edited to add - Good grief, I already posted these coins above. But here's the story of my only coin investment other than the 1968-S proof set I purchased for $20 when I was 12-yo. Investing in horseshoes back in 1910 would have been a better investment than that proof set. The 1876-CC is a date that I actually invested in, aside from collecting for my SLH set. I purchased 10 of them, mostly in nice AG to a F15, along with my PCGS XF40, in expectation of a price increase before 2026. What prompted me to do this was my experience purchasing this raw XF40. The XF40 was initially a BIN OBO on eBay. I offered the seller $179 for it and my offer was rejected. The seller replied that the 1876-CC was a hot coin worth at least $100 more than that, a claim that surprised me. It didn't sell for the price he wanted, so he put it up for auction and I won the coin for $170. The seller was correct about the price rise, though, because the price guides soon raised the value to $275. That prompted me to start buying nice, low-grade examples when I encountered them, including the G6 shown above. Here are two more "shares" of 1876-CC I purchased. PCGS F15 A raw VG8 WB-2 Large CC that needs to be graded now because of the price rise. They ease the pain in my failing to purchase a nice 1839 No Drapery 18 years ago when they were worth about $1000 in XF40. I wasn't savvy enough to realize that the 39ND, a one-year type, would also rise considerably over time. Now, it's a $3000+ coin at that grade.
Another "investment" I made was spending some time learning how to recognize 1855/54 overdates, particularly in blurry photos. I had already purchased a very weak overdate in XF45 off Heritage for a very strong price and became dismissive of the variety until I discovered that my 1855 normal date was actually a WB-1 1855/54 with a pronounced overdate. I purchased the coin to fill the 1855 normal date slot, and when it arrived, I regarded it as barely "clearing the bar" for that slot in my Dansco. I never looked at it critically as one normally does with a new purchase. Ten years later, after downloading Bill Bugert's keys, I discovering my 1874-S was the rare WB-4 that BB called a "super-rarity." All that excitement prompted me to fetch the Dansco out of my SDB, examine the WB-4, and check my other SLHs for scarce die marriages hoping that "lightning strikes twice". The first coin I happened to look at holding the Dansco under my 'scope was this "1855 normal date" with a screaming overdate. Flash...Boom! Upon recognizing what to look for on these 55/54's, I picked a quart of these cherries including an XF45 off Great Collections. However, this crusty AG3 WB-1, picked off eBay for $48, is one of my favorite coins in my collection.
A non-USA seated Lady Liberty with over 1.3 ounces of gold in it. Peru: 1965 gold 100-soles, Seated Liberty type (9 over inverted 5 variety)
Every now and then, I pick up a nice, raw coin off eBay for well below retail. This is from "The Happy Coin" on eBay. I've gotten other nice coins for reasonable prices from them in the past. Looks like an XF40 to me. Here's another coin I purchased raw from The Happy Coin. I feel it is under-graded at CACG XF45.
