Newest addition to my collection of semi-religious coinage...

What does everyone think? Still has a decent amount of luster on it that unfortunately didn't come across through the camera...

I know people get excited about rare, high quality coins...but for someone as poor as I am...perhaps a tiny bit of excitement? Ha!




How would I (if I were so inclined) go about grading this and determining its worth? I bought it out of a jewelry box at a local flea market along with a 1931 British Threepence (also holed.)

Thanks,
~benjamin

 

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They do not get grades with holes in them. That basically puts the coin in a bullion category. One of the things that graders look for is holes that have been filled. They send such coins back ungraded.

If you are interested in practicing grading, get The Official American Numismatic Association Grading Standards for United States Coins and The Red Book, A Guide Book Of United States Coins. You should also get The Coin Collector's Survival Manual, by Scott Travers.

 

benjamin, the coin has a good amount of detail. Collecting holed, cleaned, and partly damaged coins is a way for someone on a tight budget to obtain some of the old classics. It won't have much resale value, but you also didn't pay an arm and a leg. Enjoy it!

 

Nice coin.

 

I like it but then again I sort of like holed coins as well LOL

 

That was a much better date, a 1913 P quarter.
Mintage= 484,613.

Before someone destroyed it it was an XF.

Pre-hole value: $400.

Current value: bullion.

Value on ebay? Priceless.

P.S. Nice, I just got it: Semi-religious= holey (holy).
Very cute.

 

Thats really too bad that someone drilled a hole through it. As Frank said, its a very nice XF. Well, we can look at the bright side, at least its not a 1913-S.....lol

 

could you imagine?

I have a friend who recently bid on and won a date set of cents from 1858 to about 1931 or so.

Each coin had two holes, one on either side and links in between.

And YES, it included the 1877, as I remember it was about a VF, no S on the 1908 or 1909 (either one).

But I was in mournig over the '77.

It was the hit of the coin show that Sunday.
Everyone wanted to hold it.

 

This is like what I did when I was a kid. The coins were not collectible at the time that people put holes in them to wear them. They were just circulated coins.

 

I admit a hole ruins the value of a coin ,but not down to bullion , I'd pay $25 for it . heck some people collect coins with holes in them because thats all they can afford . What would you pay for a 1895 dollar , bullion ?

 

Imagine the riots for that kind of stupid crazy money.