1878 7/8

Discussion in 'What's it Worth' started by lionsdog64, Jun 7, 2009.

  1. lionsdog64

    lionsdog64 New Member

    picked this up for 50$ says lightly cleaned cleaned is cleaned to me and its to bad but i have no vams so i bought it does it look cleaned to you?
     

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  3. lionsdog64

    lionsdog64 New Member

    wow after seeing it like this maybe i should of passed i will never buy a cleaned coin again unless no i wont
     
  4. WLhalves

    WLhalves Member

    So you answered your own question and if that is the sellers idea of lightly cleaned it would hurt to imagine what a harshly cleaned coin would like by their own definition. Often times we are all tempted to question our belief system to rationalize why this coin belongs in our set or collection.

    On the bright side consider yourself lucky if you learned this lesson for 50 dollars, it takes some people a 1200 dollar coin to learn this same lesson.
     
  5. lionsdog64

    lionsdog64 New Member

    right you are thanks for that im glad it wasnt 1200 dollar coin lesson learned. maybe if i toned it i could sell it for 1000$ never would i do that honesty is best.
     
  6. just coins

    just coins New Member

    And your coin is not a repunched date and it was cleaned.
    JC
     
  7. WLhalves

    WLhalves Member

    Good eye on the repunched date you are absolutely correct.
     
  8. raider34

    raider34 Active Member

    7/8 refers to the tail feathers, not the date, or am I missing something?
     
  9. lionsdog64

    lionsdog64 New Member

    not repunched date 7 over eight tailfeathers
     
  10. raider34

    raider34 Active Member

    It looks like it could be, but we would need closer pics of the tail feathers to be sure.
     
  11. lionsdog64

    lionsdog64 New Member

    take my word for it 7/8 strong tailfeathers dont really matter it was still cleaned taking as lesson learned thats all cant get better pic or i would do you think it could be worth more then 50$ or less ill still hold on to it
     
  12. raider34

    raider34 Active Member

    That depends the cleaning definitely hurts the price, but it all depends on what 7/8 VAM it is, there are a few top 100, 50, and 40 VAMs for the 7/8, so I couldn't say without knowing what VAM.
     
  13. just coins

    just coins New Member

    could mean that to Seven over the eight.
    JC
     
  14. lionsdog64

    lionsdog64 New Member

    your right i will try wording better
     
  15. lionsdog64

    lionsdog64 New Member

    ok its vam-39 does that help thanks by the way
     
  16. raider34

    raider34 Active Member

    For the VAM 39 IMO on a good day maybe you could get around $30, the coin still has great details, without the cleaning it would probably be worth around $50.
     
  17. lionsdog64

    lionsdog64 New Member

    hope silver goes wayyyyyyyyyyy up thanks again
     
  18. lionsdog64

    lionsdog64 New Member

    it also has die crack from ica down to dollar also on united
     
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