Forgotten, now found (the pocket piece I didn’t even know was there)

This was in my old billfold, in a flip that was wrapped up in some postal receipts. I still carry that billfold in my back pocket for receipts and business cards, but use my phone case wallet nowadays for credit cards and driver’s license, etc.

I was surprised to rediscover this. Particularly since I’ve been carrying it around unknowingly. It had to have been in there the better part of a year.

Note the nifty little cud at the top of the obverse.

It’s always fun to find forgotten treasure and thereby cherrypick one’s self. LOL

 

Yes, it was from you.

 

If it had been a snake, it would’ve! LOL

 

Back last year I bought it with the intention of flipping it.

But I do now realize I don’t have a Coronet cent in my type set. Hmm. Thing is, mine is an all-slabbed set. I wonder if this one’s worth the expense of a trip to PCGS? Maybe. Maybe not. It wouldn’t grade out super high, of course, but it’s a nice enough circulated example, I reckon. And the cud is cool.

Eh, maybe I’ll include it in my next submission. Otherwise, I’ll flip it as originally intended.

How do y’all reckon it would grade out? I don’t see any surface issues that would prevent it getting a straight grade. Might go XF40-ish, ya think? With PCGS, I mean. Not EAC. LOL.

 

No, thanks for the detailed breakdown. Upon further examination, at least of these pics, I concur with the VF30-35 assessment. I will say that (as usual) my photos are not optimal, and the lighting gives the coin a very slightly greener tint; under sunlight or incandescent lighting, it’s a bit browner looking.

One other person on CU has suggested it might have had an old cleaning. I wonder if that was based on what you see on the reverse. If that’s indeed the case, I would hope a TPG would deem it “market acceptable”.

But then, as you mentioned, it’s barely worth the added expense of slabbing, financially speaking. Sure, if I could be assured of a straight XF40, I think it would be (if only just). But since that’s looking like a bit of a long shot, and a straight grade is also not 100% assured, perhaps I should just flip it as originally intended.

Normally I’d look for a higher grade example as my type coin, anyway. But I do like this one.

Numismedia retail price is $83 in VF20 and $168 in XF40. I do not recall what I paid @jerryc39 for it last year, but I know it was less than the Numismedia VF price. I believe it was about $70. So does it make sense for me to roll the dice on a PCGS submission that would add another $45-50-ish to the price? Hmm. Barely, if at all.

Maybe I should just flip it and put the proceeds toward a better, higher grade Coronet cent type coin that’s already been slabbed. I’ll mull that over. I do think it would be a nice addition for somebody who has a raw Dansco-7070-style type set.

I’m told it’s a late die state N6, R2.

 

6+ paragraphs in my last post. Yeesh.

Sorry, I’ve always been longwinded. I’ve tried to scale that back some, but…