1905 10 centimes France

Now THAT's a nice one, with some potential!

Not only a nice example, but a better date, too!

Edit: that is THE key date for the type, and in a popular series, to boot!

I say AU minimum, and agree with @Numismat that it has $100+ potential if it straight-grades.

Potential. This one should cross into 3-figure territory (if just barely) in terms of catalog value. In terms of real-world market value, would it sell for more than a hundred bucks? That might be a stretch, and would take some luck.

But it's a helluva nice cherrypick, regardless.

 

At less than 50 cents, you scored a home run on this one.

I can help with getting it graded if you are very patient. I hope to be submitting some stuff to NGC in the next month or so (and then there's another month's turnaround...)

 

Really, though, what I would do if this were my coin, is get a slightly better picture of it, hang it out there on eBay at a 99c starting bid, and let 'er rip. It'll find its own value that way.

For a 50c-plus-eBay-fees investment, I don't see how you could lose. But alternately, you could go the BIN/BO route, instead.

Really, this is not one of those coins that HAS to be certified. Would that help sell it, since it's a key date? Maybe. Maybe not. I dunno.

I cherrypicked a better-date 1870s Danish coin with a catalog value in the low- to mid-$100s about four years ago (it had cost me about 10-20 cents in a bulk bag, very much like your now-famous "tub"). I hung it out on eBay raw. Can't recall what it sold for- not full catalog by any means- but I was happy. I think it did just barely reach $100-ish. I don't think it would've fetched that much more in a slab, because I slabbed the next-best one out of that lot (there was another nice Danish piece in there), and that one did OK in the slab, but really not as well as the one I sold raw.

So don't feel like you have to slab it. Sell it as-is, and you're basically in that pure-profit sweet spot no matter what. And then you haven't laid out $35-40+ for slabbing.

That "almost-pure-profit" thing is the beauty of cherrypicking bulk lots of world coins here in the USA, where lots of people ignore the "foreign junk".

I've been at the game a long time.

Sometimes the cherrypicking and swapping and selling can really reap dividends.

It's fun AND educational. And with some work, profitable.

 

I predict you'll come out smelling like a rose on this one.

Nice pix.

Shoot me a link when it's on eBay and I'll start the bidding if you go the low start/true auction route.