I found a 1919 Lincoln wheat penny, I was looking online and found different opinions about this coin it has no number under the date....I found a seller on ebay that has the same coin up for bidding...man it looks just like my penny..i polished it up and I think it may be red as well..How do i determine if it is in fact the same red as the one in the link.... http://cgi.ebay.com/1919-Lincoln-Ce...5925744QQihZ012QQcategoryZ39456QQcmdZViewItem He is saying that its value is over $2,000... please can you help me.... sici
Unfortunately if you did polish it up, you could have potentially ruined the coin. If you could show us a pic of the coin, we could probably tell you for sure. Sorry, you should have asked before you cleaned it.....
thats what my coin looks like the one on ebay ....i used never dull to clean it...why would that be bad....ill take a pic now with my web cam and post it in a min ok.....sici
to CoinTalk sici. What's bad about having chemically cleaned your coin is that whatever value it had has been cut to a fraction, since any experienced collector will be able to tell from across the room that the coin's surface has been altered, and originality is a highly prized characteristic of any collectible.. As far as value is concerned, the fact that no one has bid on the one you linked to for 9 days, 22+ hours should tell you something about how realistically it is priced - not!
I didn't think that Wayne Herndon's coin on eBay was his/hers.... And I could be very wrong, but I don't think that a cleaned "found" 1919 is going t be a MS67. Again, I am assuming a lot right now, and I apologize in advance in case I am wrong. sicilian hottie, I look forward to seeing your picture. A few words about cleaning coins....collector's value original coins, they shy away from coins that have been cleaned. They want "original skin". When you cleaned the cent, you took away the original skin.
The pics you posed are awefully small and fuzzy. However, it looks like the wear is what you would expect for a coin that has seen a fair amount of circulation. I would imagine that it was worth no more than about $0.50 or so before it was cleaned. 1919 is a fairly common cent, over 392 million were produced so many remain in nicer grades (the link you posted was a professionally graded coin that was an exceptionally high grade, they graded it a 67 out of 70). So, a 1919 is a neat find from circulation and deffinately worth hanging onto for that reason alone. But, it doesn't appear to have much "collector value."
can you tell me what makes it different...is it the material or what...ty so much for your time....sici
What makes it different is appearance, pure and simple; and the way collectors feel about a coin's appearance, which directly affects the demand. Your coin shows unmistakeable evidence that it has been circulated, and partially worn away. Giving it the benefit of the doubt considering the quality of your pictures, the obverse is no better than Very Fine, and the reverse is no better than Extra Fine. Look at the wheat ears, and observe the smoothing that has occurred. The overpriced EBay piece which didn't sell, is in fact a high grade uncirculated coin, worth 100s of times as much as yours simply because of the law of supply and demand. There are at least tens of thousands of 1919 Philadelphia cents in as good or better condition than yours. Perhaps there are a few hundred as nice as the Ebay example. It is not at all uncommon for heavily circulated coins to be worth less than a dollar while high grade examples of the same year and mint are valued in the thousands.
