First off you need pictures for someone to tell you what it's worth. Secondly you can't advertise in any section of the forum besides the for sale section.
And that's if it's genuine. This date is so heavily counterfeited that even with good photos, I would be wary. Best to take this to a local coin shop for verification (which may still not determine authenticity) and/or have it sent to a TPG for slabbing.
I decided to check this thread out after the OP asked those of us who looked at his 79-CC if we would offer an opinion. It's the Reverse of '78 and I'm guessing that it is about VF and worth $200, but you need to take better photos from directly overhead. Taking them at an angle tends to hide and/or distort blemishes, marks and even possible cleaning that could affect the grade. Chris
Glad to see others say it's not a fake. Nice coin. Is that $200 estimate a "gray sheet" price or e-bay?
I can't speak for anyone else, but I try to avoid placing a value on most coins based on bidiots using FleaBay. There are too many instances where a "first offering" can result in a high winning bid and a later offering ending with a much lower winning bid. For example, a few months ago, I had listed five (5) 2007-P Sac dollar NGC MS68 business strikes in which the highest winning bid was $76.00 and the lowest winning bid was $22.72. The average for all five was $46.43. That's quite a spread for an identical coin. About the same time, I had also listed five (5) 2005-P CA SQ NGC MS68 business strikes in which the highest winning bid was $122.50 and the lowest winning bid was $62.00. The average for all five was $98.80. Again, the spread was too much for identical coins to make it possible to determine a true value. I prefer to use the CDN Greysheet because it will give you a better idea of what dealers are bidding and asking rather than the bidiots with the "just got to have" mentality. Granted, you won't find the coins mentioned above listed individually in the CDN, but my purpose for citing them was merely to show the discrepancies you might encounter on FleaBay. Chris
Well if it's been in your family for 110 years it's probably real. However it may have been faked back in the day because in 1880 $1 was a fortune. So it could have been faked back in the day but that is unlikly. Most people today would fake the 1885cc or 1889cc. It would make a good filler and sell for $150-180.
