Extreme Lowball HalfHalf

I thought I would share this on here. I was at the bank and asked if they had anything cool. They had a bunch of halves and this clad lowball was there.



what do you think

 

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Kinda neat.

Any idea of date?

 

197x d

I think I may see the top of the 7 in 197 but the last number is worn into the edge

 

Great for that lowest grade type set you will put together

 

Here are some new photos.


I'm working on a Lowball Ike right now, It is only down to EF-45 though

 

Time to change the buffer pad. LOL.

 

How could a relatively new coin end up like that?

One time I ended up with a 2010 shield cent and it was nearly black, totally corroded....

 

Probably got stuck in a commercial clothes dryer for a long while.

 

Any ideas of a value???? Hard to put a price on though. Do you think it is a pocket piece or artificial. It looks like a pocket piece to me, I tried to sand down a clad quarter once to make it look blank and it looked nothing like this half. The half has no hairlines that I see and is not shiny at all, completely dull, that first photo has horrible lighting, I took it in the supermarket with my phone

 

Just leave a new outside for a while - they corrode quickly. I like that half - nice and worn.

 

These coins must have been pocket pieces for people that work in a gravel yard LOL I have a 197x cent thats between FR2/AG3. Very odd

 

Here's the Ike I'm working on, not much progress though I have only had it for two months. I take it everywhere in my pocket.

 

Man talk about rode hard and put away worn-out . I don't think I've ever seen a Kennedy that bad.

 

Are you gonna sell it on eBay for $750?

 

There's probably someone out there who might pay a few dollars for it as an oddity.

 

I guess I'll just have to damage all my halves!!! Thanks for the advice! lol

 

Anyone remember this one I posted earlier? Sold for a dollar plus .85 cents postage. The person who bought it was tickled pink. And I picked up a positive feedback.

 

You could do a batch of them with a rock tumbler! LOL.

 

I'll never understand the appeal, but lowball coins can go for EXTREMELY high prices.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1923-S-PCGS...94?pt=Coins_US_Individual&hash=item23469742b6

 

I can't figure it either. But it's not like I advertise them as an error or rare. Just as an oddity with question marks in the title. It's possible that a newbie thinks it's something it is not but as long as I sell them responsibly it's okay I guess.