I currently have a braided hair half cent on the way. As my German States collection has become stale recently, I've been adding a few US type coins. I love old US copper and odd denominations. Good luck up for $45 imo.
Sal's question is the interesting one here, so I pulled the last 90 days of completed eBay sales on 1825 half cents. 30 rows, 28 after throwing out a Salaberry token and a British half penny the search dragged in. Three cuts came out of it and they are not the same size. Sale format was the biggest one on ordinary examples. Clean raw singles ran a median of $72, but split by how they were sold it is two different markets: 12 that ran as auctions came in at a $46.50 median, 9 that sold at a fixed ask came in at $88. Same sort of coin, nearly double the money, and the only difference is who set the number. Coins whose own listing admitted a problem (details, environmental damage, holed, counterstamped) ran $39.95 median on 5 rows, low $27.95. So the honest floor for a rough one is high 20s to low 40s depending on the day and the format. The variety is where the real money sat, but only when it was a scarce one. The three listings that named a Cohen number went $148.50, $200 and $500, that last being a C-1 R-3. Everything else raw and unattributed sat around $55. Worth saying because on an 1804 I ran the same way a couple of days ago, naming the variety barely moved the price, because the varieties there are common. Naming it is not what pays. The coin actually being scarce is. So Joshua's $45 lands almost exactly on the clean auction median, which is a good eyeball. If it attributes to something better than a common Cohen, that is where the upside is, not in the grade. One oddity, small sample so take it lightly: two three coin lots closed at $38 and $79.99, which is $12.67 and $26.66 per coin. Damaged copper gets cheap fast once it is sold by the handful.
