My Redbook shows a generic retail value of about $15 for a cud (defective die) zinc Lincoln cent.
In that condition, I would say that your 1880-O is worth maybe $27 to $30
Your coin is a short-lived type coin from the French 2nd Republic, but that date and mintmark combination is the most common (14 million pieces...
So now we can look forward to having a middleman taking a cut out of all our financial transactions. America's new growth industry. Yay.
Thanks for looking that up and confirming it for me. :)
If the seller actually expects to get $100,000 for that coin, then I think he'll be in for a big disappointment.
I realize that gold fell a bit yesterday, but if it had hit $1406 I think there would have been panic around here :eek:
Looks like a fingerprint to me, too.
This 1819 Large Cent is not particularly pretty, but on close examination it appears to be an 1819/8 (Breen 1801). If it is, it would be my first...
I really like that Icelandic millennium coin. In my own collection, I have many favorites. This is one-- 1902 matte proof sovereign:
Great Britain 1902 matte proof half crown:
Theoretically, 166.36 Spanish pesetas should be convertible into one Euro at a Spanish bank (though maybe not all Spanish banks will do that)....
In my August 1969 issue of Coinage magazine, rolls of Unc 1955-S cents were being offered by advertisers for anywhere from $12 to $17.95 each, and...
This is the only bluish Lincoln cent in my collection-- a 1934-D that was purchased from a coin company in Houston in 1978 and stored in a Whitman...
Here's an MS-68 for comparison http://legacy.stacks.com/Lot/ItemDetail/140758
I still think you should take more pictures of the coin, from straight overhead, with obverse and reverse both aligned straight up. Even with the...
Perhaps if you took photos from directly overhead, with the obverse and reverse in upright positions, it might be easier to make comparisons. And...
Inexpensive? The original poster paid $15.50 for a coin that contains about 6 cents worth of metal. Because it is relatively common, people are...
For starters, the Indian's face doesn't look right. The Indian on your coin seems to be grimacing like he's in pain (look especially at the left...
I have my doubts about the authenticity of that coin. Compare it to this one:
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