Early 50 C. Piece ?$?

What would you pay for this coin? I think it's still a neat coin even though it's been cleaned. It's in an NCS holder graded VF Details, Improperly Cleaned. I understand that some of you would not buy this coin. That's fine. I'm just asking what a fair price for it may be in this condition.

 

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Bullion value is about $2.80

I might go as high as three bucks if I really needed it to plug a hole.

 

Others?

 

It should be worth between $80-$100. A raw one with a deep gouge sold on ebay for $81.00 recently.

Charlie

 

Two more NCS coins for you to consider a fair price on...both Improperly Cleaned.

And yes, I know some of you think they're no better than just bullion value, but I still believe they're neat and have some historical significance. I'm just trying to feel this out.

 

It's in pretty good VF shape. An unscruplous professional dealer might dip it and then bake it in a potato, LOL

Bone

 

Ok here is my 2 cents...
Most old coins have been cleaned (dipped) at sometime or another so its hard to get one that hasn't been....I think it has been said that 90% of the older coins have been dipped...
I'm one that trys to buy only uncleaned coins but at a point in time you have to over look somethings...

As for these coins...
I would think about the last 2 but the first one is a no go....

It is all in what you collect....with me since I try to buy uncleaned coins I would much rather have a nice (G-F) circulated set of these then a set of higher grade coins that have been cleaned---

Speedy

 

I think most of us older (45yrs old and up) guys & gals probably experimented with cleaning their coins if they collected as a kid, I sure did. My childhood collection is packed under years of Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, and every other type of obsolete holiday decoration you can imagine down in our basement.

If you were to locate it, you'd think you found GOLD because those lincoln's are bright copper, LOL. Baking soda and lemon juice were the trick in 1968

Bone

 

Why not try and find them? It would be interesting to see what 37 years of benign neglect has done to them.

 

What is bad is that there are various edges that can be on a coin of this date. You cant see what kind it is in the slab.
I wouldnt pay more than $40.00 for it in the slab.
Have Fun,
Bill

 

LOL, you have NO idea!!! I really wish I could lay my hands on my Nacogdoches Collection which was stolen/sold by an old GF who stayed at my apt when I was at Basic Training in 1982. There were six months of rent prepaid and I only had to be gone for 12 weeks. Let me tell you, some of the worlds most STUPID decisions are made in moments of passion or very quickly. This one fit into both of these criteria. Misssing are about 20 seated/trade dollars, a couple of 1921's, a 1927, and a 1928!!! peace dollar.

DAMN...

Bone

 

35 on the first 40 on the second 45 on the third.

 

If the coins (the last few) were not to badly hurt with scrub marks in the field and any pitting from cleaners, I to would get them at a REASONABLE price,I wouldnt pay more than $75.00 ....cheaper the better,like I said, if no damage is evident other than the lack of mint luster, they will, and can be toned to a pleasing state. As mentioned most of these old coins have been cleaned-up at some time, but not all, I look for better stikes on these bust halves myself.

 

I think they're pretty nice coins, tcor. If, as suggested by others here, they are available for about 20% of the price of a similar uncleaned coin, they would seem to be a bargain based on their age and historical value. I can understand the concept of discounting cleaned coins, but the discount seems a tad too large to me.

 

$20 each? sure

 

The 1829 is gorgeous with fantastic fields and detail,cleaned or not.I would pay $75 for it any day.

 

bake it in a potato bonedigger??

 

That '29 is actually a pretty nice coin, well struck and in good shape except for the cleaning. It's a shame those words "improperly cleaned" jump out at you like that. I'd probably de-slab it and put it into an air-tite just so I wouldn't have to look at the label.

 

Amen....I don't know if I would crack it out of the slab but I wouldn't mind owning it!

Speedy

 

Oh, I've read a time or two you can do all sorts of things to "ahem, impart a natural (or unnatural) tone to otherwise nondescript silver..." Travers, The Coin Collectors's Survival Manual

Bone