Pick of a Small Litter

These are the nicest of an extremely small accumulation of cents and half cents. 1847 one cent and 1835 half cent. (Photos are kinda out of sequence). I've assessed them as a "first try" to grading. Fire away please. Thanks, Charley

 

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nice coins! how much did you pay for them if you don't mind me asking?

 

Thanks. These fortunately came from where we all like to find them - grandma's coin jar!

 

Grandma has great taste in coins! Thanks for sharing!

 

Okay - my try is VF20 for the large cent and xf40 for the half cent. THe pictures on the half cent appear to be darker and I can't see some of the details, but that is my guess. Nice Grandma!

 

Very nice coins. I've got an 1810 Half Cent from Grandpa's coin jar. Unfortunately it's very worn.

 

You have a 1847 coronet half cent. The thing is that from what I know they only made the classic head large cent from 1808-1814, that coin says 1835...

 

Photos aren't in order, the 1835 is the half cent.

Nice coins.

 

Mark, thanks for your input. I feel a bit comfortable now with my first try according to the "Red BooK". I did see another thread that lets me know there is a lot to be looked at beyond the Red Book criteria. I'll study those references before I try again with another sample and then come back and revisit how I looked at these two.

At least I feel that I'm in the ball park, Charley

 

VF-25 cleaned

XF-45 cleaned

...but both coins have since retoned nicely and have great surfaces!