At coin shops the have junk jars where you can get many and much better quality for dirt cheap. Cost of silver.
I guess that's where my number (1.40) is coming from. I just picked 40 decent mercs from a big can in a coin shop for a dollar thirty one apiece.
Coin World's newest price guide has a VG-8 listed at $1.75. their prices usually higher than what they actually sell for and IMHO your coin doesn't grade that high so those saying $1.25 I agree with.
I'm sorry, I know very little about world currency except what I run into in the course of buying and selling.