MS68 1831 Half Dime value

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1831-CAPPED...14?pt=Coins_US_Individual&hash=item2a1fb6b562

What would you guys think is the value of this They are selling for $26,197.50 (don't ask me where they get that number from)

Ruben

 

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That seems a bit much, maybe $19-20K would be reasonable. Lucky Steve, he gets all the good coins.

 

Save your money, you can get a MS67 for half that price.

 

Who?

How about offering 9K. Not that I have it but he will say no

 

Steve Contursi is the owner of Rare coin wholesalers and has owned some of the biggest prizes in numismatics. He has owned or still owns the 1794 SP-66 Flowing Hair dollar widely believed to be the first dollar that the US ever produced, the Ephim Brasher Doubloon, a PDS set of copper 1943 Lincoln cents, a complete set of Stellas, and the King of Siam proof set which included the Childs specimen PR-68 1804 Bust dollar to name a few. Lucky guy indeed.

9k won't do it for him, maybe double that and you have a shot.

 

I wouldn't pay 1/4th of their asking price.

-Brian

 

And simply put you will not have one.
Some coins just flat out are not going to be in some of our collections.:hail:

 

Are these heavy hitters active on forums?

 

There are very few people who can collect coins of this magnitude, most are just investors. Sadly, most investors could care less about the coins that they own, to them it is nothing more than having stocks. Some actually pay someone else a storage fee to hold their coins. A crazy notion if you ask me.

 

+1. It's rather sad actually -- having (one of) the finest collections and not even being able to show it off! However, in today's rather depressing world it's a necessity -- I mean, people would go crazy knowing you have millions of $$ worth of coins in your home safe...a bit off topic but I read somewhere that a lot of people were polled and the conclusion was that at 3 million $$, people would be willing to do anything. Go figure.

 

I have a recurring dream where I'm buying a cigar in a pharmacy somewhere in NYC. I pay with a dollar and the cashier reaches below the counter, pulls out a BU roll of key date coins, cracks the roll on the edge of the register drawer, and dumps them into the tray.

The year changes, but it's always a key date year!

 

Wish I'd have that dream - sounds cool!

 

Nice coin, but I don't know, is it just me, but has that coin had too recent of a cleaning to go 68? I know cleaning these oldies was considered ok, but I'd prefer some old deep lustrous colorful toning on it at that grade/price.

 

He also was a co-purchaser of the PR-69 Ultra High Relief that just sold.

 

agree, this coin should not be so blast white. I can think of a lot of coins I'd pick over this one at that price.

 

Great, you can add that to his list of coins that I am jealous of.

 

Smoking is bad for you !

 

She didn't say she was smoking the cigar just buying it .

 

I'm not sure how there can be anything bad to say about this coin. I wish that they would image their coins better so that you can see how truly beautiful this coin is. I have not seen this coin personally, but I have seen many high grade blast white coins from the era. There is something to be said of a coin in this state of preservation. You would be hard pressed to find a modern business strike with that quality.

Being blast white does not necessarily mean that the coin has been cleaned. Toning is not just a natural thing that a coin does, it takes a contaminant of some sort to make the toning start. It is very unusual for any coin of this age to be free of some sort of toning, but it does happen.

 

I disagree to a degree. This coin has definately been dipped at one point over the past 180+ years, IMO. The line between a light cleaning such as a dip and other more harmful cleanings can be very hard to define. But dont get me wrong, I'm not saying that the dipping made this coin bad, it could have had horrible, black toning and now is a market acceptable piece.