I Finally Found a Wide Rim SBA! Value??

When I was at the bank today I asked if any one ther.e had any cool coins or paper money. The teller said that she has some Susan B. Anthony dollars. All of them were 1979 so I got them, just to check if they were the Wide Rim, there were 7 of them and after a quick look under the loupe I saw that one of them was clearly the Wide Rim.

First off, do you think this coin could be AU or BU?

 

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Good for you! Now that makes two of us recently. They are out there. Looks to be at least an high A.U. About $15-$20. In B.U. around $25-$30.00.

 

Make that 3.

 

Congrats Hommer! Maybe I missed a post by you?

 

Would you like to pay $20 for the book or $50 for a grading lesson?

Chris

 

Thanks Tommy! I'm have been checking every 1979 SBA at the banks for a while now, the problem is, they rarely have any SBA let alone Wide Rim. Pretty thrilled to find this one, now on to the next

 

That's right, he should get John Wexler's book for $20.00, I did. Edit, wrong thread, I was thinking of the RPM thread, my boo, boo.

 

I'll stick to the free of charge PCGS photograde

 

Do you smoke El Cheapo cigars, too?

Chris

 

I never posted about it. Found mine about 2 weeks ago. Congratulations to you both.

 

Looks like a narrow rim to me @Hommer, but it would help if picture was in focus.

Nice find coinman1234!

 

No doubt, this is a very cool find and Congrats!

As for value? If it were my coin, and I had been looking high and low for one, it would have w-a-a-y more value to me than to anyone who might be interested in purchasing it from me.

PCGS Price guides (for PCGS Graded and encapsulated coins) go from $12 for an XF40 to $5750 for an MS67+.

You "CAN" get your coin graded at the Modern Rate of $16 (+$10 for handling and $19.95 return shipping) as this is a Heritage coin and no attribution fee is required. If you want an "FS" number, it'll set you back another $18.

All in all, you're looking at $45.95 without "FS-301" on the slab or $63.95 with "FS-301" on the PCGS slab label.

NGC may be cheaper. ANACS and ICG would be the cheapest.

IMO, slabbing the coin, since it does not appear to be an MS65, MS66 or an MS67, would be a self indulgent luxury that you may or may not regret.

Assigning a value to the coin is nothing more than a relative guess. I'm sure you could sell it raw for $5.00. Possibly $10. But why? You looked and then you found.
Hang on to it in its raw state and just add it to your collection of achievements!

Whats next??

 

Yahhhh, Swisher Sweets! LOL.

 

I agree, I looks like it is a narrow rim, better photos would help though. It is pretty noticeable when you have one, even without a loupe.

 

I'm definitely hanging on to it, I do not want to sell it any time soon, I guess it would be best to keep it raw then.

 

Focus keeps me from posting a lot on here. The wide rim has a taper from the raised rim to the fields giving the rim it's "wide" appearance. On the narrow rim that taper was removed making the rim seam narrowed from the first.
Edit. This one has that taper.

 

Funny that I just saw this thread as I have 3 of them sitting on my desk here all 3 ODV-002 Wide Border with the Mint mark style MMS-002. You can go to Variety vista.com and see the varieties listed there.

 

Thanks, I just check mine, the mint mark style looks to be MMS-001,

 

I've never heard of this "taper diagnostic". But I do know that the gap between the date and the rim appears to be too big to be a wide rim. Unless your picture is really distorted.