What Would Be the Grade of This Jefferson nickel?

What do you thing the grade and worth of this coin is?

 

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Au range

 

What Would be the Worth?

 

Agree with Au. (53-55)
As for worth, online price guide shows no values below MS.
.05-.10 cents. There's really no market for these Jeffersons that aren't
key or semi key dates. Album filler.

 

OK Thanks

 

Agree with the previous comments. If the reverse had full steps it could be worth a bit more but definitely not worth the cost of grading.

 

This coin is actually listed EF40 through MS61 as being valued at $1.

 

Have seen super high prices listed before by Nick. No idea what source you are using but even in MS this is a .25 cent coin.

 

I knew someone would chime in on this. I prefer to use PCGS listings, you know the "Professional Coin Grading Service".
https://www.pcgs.com/prices/priceguidedetail.aspx?ms=1&pr=1&sp=1&c=84&title=jefferson nickel
Super high or not the values I might post are purely my opinion (and PCGS's) of what a coin might be worth and in no way will ever determine what it's real value is, that can ONLY be determined by what a buyer will actually pay for any particular coin. I know what you're going to say; that's only for slabbed and graded coins. Why would PCGS list any coin's worth if it is less than their grading costs, which average anywhere from $12 to $112, or why would anyone have a coin slabbed that is only worth $1 when it would cost $12 to put it in that slab? I feel PCGS is giving a reasonable value for most coins but of course you and I'm sure several others absolutely have every right to disagree with me and with PCGS.

 

Yes, it makes sense to pay $10.00 or more dollars for grading to get a coin worth $1.25

 

Everyone has the right to do that and have their coin verified and certified regardless of value or cost and I stand by my opinions of coin values whether you agree or not. Oh by the way I don't think PCGS lists any coin values in anything other than whole dollar amounts, but if you think your coin is worth $1.25 then that's great.

 

I am under the impression that ALL of PCGS' quotes are for coins ALREADY IN PCGS slabs, not for raw coins. Now, would any sane person send in such a coin for PCGS to slab. Perhaps not, but the populations are NOT "0", so sane or not, SOMEBODY did.

 

So if the population for a EF45 1959 Jefferson is 1 then it should be worth thousands!

 

In a PCGS fanboi world, why not? If you're building a 1959 grading set, gotta have it, right?

Maybe we need to check with baseball21. He's about as PCGS fanboi as it gets.

 

Ok I'm going to retract what I originally said and NO i'm NOT going to edit what I originally said. I don't think this coin is worth a dollar and I don't care what condition it is in. I think this coin is worth five cents period.

 

It's a really nice coin, if I wasn't looking hard enough I would of thought that that wasn't anything old and would have missed it.

 

What a lot of new collectors will need to get used to is that for MANY "old school" collectors, the world pretty much ended in 1964. They view NOTHING after that date as of any use whatsoever. In their uniquely warped minds, a 1959 nickel will ALWAYS be 5 years old.

 

This so true to me too and it is hard to explain and I am "only" 62 years "old".

 

I'm only 62 as well and really haven't had much interest in modern (post 1964) coins other than completing sets (Lincoln, Jefferson, Roosevelt, Washington, and Kennedy). Maybe the large mintages of modern issues is a factor for some. When I was a teenager, I got hooked on earlier series since they were something I didn't find in change and saw in coin shop display cases.

 

I'm vintage 1955 also and I NEVER thought anything interesting changed in 1964/65. The whole "line of demarcation" never made a lick of sense to me. I don't care WHAT coins are made of - I'm in it for the "boundary between the solid and the gas (of the atmosphere)", i.e. what that boundary looks like.