Hey all I want y’alls opinion on whether you think this was a nice purchase! Either way 7 dollars isn’t much of a loss haha.
not horrible for $7 but not a huge fan of coins with big rim dings or chunk missing on top of obverse.
Thanks. That makes sense. (No pun intended). I guess I had "a penny for your thoughts" running through my sub-conscious mind ;-)
I think it is a decent buy, Looks like N-3 and R-3 variety, not particularly rare but not real common either. Sure there are nicer coins available, but for $7 this would be hard to beat. I would have no qualms paying that for it. (No that is NOT an offer, just so the moderators don't get their hackles up.)
One thing I used to do when I was younger was to buy low grade Draped bust half cents and cents and attribute them (this was at a time when you could occasionally find AG or G with problems for <$5). In hindsight, I would have been better off financially if I would have put that money into 1 or 2 rarer, high grade coins, but the amount I learned about early copper and numismatics turned out to be an incredible bargain and some of the best money I ever spent in the hobby Too bad @Conder101 was a spoiler and gave you the attribution information. If you're interested, try to see if your attribution matches up with Conder's. If you learn something from it, then your $7 will be well spent
Yeah, I thought the exchange rate was 1 thought = 1 penny. Of course, that was in 16th century England, so we would have been talking about a silver penny, but then as the penny was debased, perhaps thoughts also became less valuable at the same rate, keeping the saying synchronized with the initial exchange rate. I know that I really couldn't care less what people are thinking most of the time. Decimalization... rather decimalisation... probably messed that up a bit where people paying a new penny for thoughts should have been getting 2.4 of them. I'm sure the elderly got shortchanged thoughts more often than others, even more so of they were forgetful.
