I found a John Adams Dollar today that is an absolutely gorgeous double die where the inscription on the edges overlap each letter so closely that it even makes the 1955 look bad. Does anyone have an insight as to what this might be worth? I took it to a coin shop and he offered me $200 to begin with and kept going up until he stopped at $500. Would ebay be the best place to list it or should I try something else like Southerbies? I mean if someone offered me $2000 tomorrow I wouldn't know if it was a heck of a deal or if I undersold it. My gut tells me that it is worth at least a grand if a coin shop offered me $500, but if it was really worth thousands I would have thought he would had upped his offer to at least a grand. I've found a bunch of double lettered ones on ebay and even some where you will see for example 2 2 0 0 0 0 7 7, but none where they touch so close, but yet not close enough to make it not look like a double die. Any comments apppreciated.
Welcome aboard,neuman456.Can you please post some photos? If you don't know how,you can use www.imageshack.us & link the photos back here. Aidan.
Heres a Buy-It-Now at $599: http://cgi.ebay.com/2007-P-JOHN-ADA...207QQihZ016QQcategoryZ524QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem Its been on there for 6 days and no ones bought it. Now I cant see into the future, but my gut would be telling me to take the $500!
I would go back and hope and pray that he still is willing to give $500...and if he will only go to $200 I would take it and run.... Speedy
Further, doubled edge lettering isn't a doubled die, it is double struck. by the way, it is really bad form to offer a coin to a dealer without countering with a number when he makes an offer. For example, when he offered $200, that's when you say, no, I'm thinking more like $2000 (or whatever). When you don't counter it becomes obvious that you don't know what you have and are fishing, which is a waste of that dealer's time. Not a nice thing to do to a man trying to make a living.
Based on the number of coins available on Ebay and the ease in making these with a machine I think prices are heading down.
