How rare is this?

http://www.empirecoins.net/shop/index.php?l=product_detail&p=42305
How rare is it to still find some original luster on coins fro the 1700's?

 

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I just took a quick peek at the NGC Census, and there are quite a few coins listed in MS with some as high as MS67.

Chris

 

I don't do Colonials, so hows come this didn't oxidize like 99.9% of other coppers?

 

That does look like a smoking coin for it's age and compisition.
Maybe GB has very little humidity

 

pretty cool looking for sure, but $1500 seems steep.

 

The Chinese have em by the bucket full

 

Yeah, I agree, $1500 seems somewhat overpriced, but still a beauty nonetheless!

 

It's amazing, but it must have been properly stored.....a rare thing for a copper.

 

I'm really surprised that so many are out there. Makes me wonder if they had a secret ingredient back then. Thanx everyone...

 

I have a Salzburg 3 Kreuzer silver coin from 1681 and it is graded MS63 and has booming luster with hardly any toning, just on the highest points. They're out there!

 

A nice find, Even if there is a large census

 

IIRC, there was a hoard of these coins found, accounting for the large number of mint state specimens.

 

Why does it seem steep? If the coin is a large cent from the 1840's it's worth more than twice that.

 

If they are high grade then they will usually have luster. Frankly the coin is question doesn't appear to me to have good luster. (Don't confuse color and luster.) I have close to a thousand Conder tokens from the 1790's, maybe 400 to 500 AU or better. Some still red, some RB, and many of them brown and most still with luster.