Having become recently enamored with Feuchtwanger Cents, I was wondering: 1) Do Greysheets cover items like this? I don't think so. 2) If not, are there any printed price guidelines? 3) Or are Heritage and eBay completed auctions the best place to gauge prices? Now regarding grading them: 4) I didn't expect to find anything in the ANA grading book. Found a blurb in the Redbook on pricing. How do you grade these?
Grading them is similar to grading any coin. Look at what a perfect one would look like and judge the level of wear on the current example. Every collector should be able to grab any coin and grade it, especially in worn condition.
I was into Feuchtwangers in the 90's. A neat design, they never struck up completely because of a mismatch between design reliefs front-to-back. Low grade specimens were harder to find than higher grade, and higher grade had to be luster-graded because of the poor strike. As I recall, I had to work from the pricing in the Redbook, as I could find nothing else at the time. I suspect you can find something else today, if you search long enough on the internet.
Completed auction results are going to give you the best idea of what these are worth in each grade. You can also see a summary of auction results on the PCGS website, they use coin number 20001 for the Feuchtwanger cent. But remember, if you see this listed in price guides, that's usually the price for the most common variety such as the 6I die pair. Some of the more rare varieties of the Feuchtwanger will of course sell for more.
