This is the nicest zink one cent I have seen to date. Pocket change from the store. As soon it was handed to me I quickly grabbed a napkin. Should I spend the money and have certified?
No. Is that your collecting goal? To have any nice looking coin slabbed? It would be much easier to purchase one. You can get them fairly cheap.
it may be nice but you can see discolorations on it. It's cheaper to buy a slabbed nicer version from people who have already made that mistake, than to pay for slabbing it yourself.
I just wanted to see what the response was going to be like. It's my understanding that the shield cents have yet to grade above MS68 or some where I'm that range. My I don't like any of the coins minted after 1982. This one as stated just happened to be the nicest "I" have personally seen. I will add it to the thousands of nice ones I have been hanging on to. They will be worth something 20 years from know. I have coins from 1895 to current. I have coins from 1895 to current. Errors, wheat, buffalo, Indian heads, pennies nickels, dimes quarters, some silver some gold. And as soon as I become more experienced I will go through them again and dump another 5,000 pennies that are worth not much then a penny. Thanks for all the positive feed back.
