The reverse side is great the only thing that is difficult to see is the last number of the date........ Also have a 1834 ( pretty sure that the last number is a 4 anyway....) I found out that it is a coronet, first oberse design Indian wheat pennies.. 1897 1795 1902 1889 1897 I have TONS more...I know nothing about them
Welcome to the forum Karen. If you have all U.S. coins, a visit to your local library to consult the Guide Book of United States Coins by R.S. Yeoman, aka "the Red Book", is in order. For that matter, you can get the 2005 edition fairly inexpensively at just about any online or brick and mortar book store, and if you are going to get involved in coin collecting there is an old adage - Buy the book before the coin!. If you have many world coins (any country except the U.S.), you need to watch for a library sale or other used book source to get the Standard Catalog of World Coins by Krause & Mishler. For IDing coins the latest big city phone book size edition isn't necessary.
KAREN if you're interested in SELLING these coins my advise would be to find/buy a copy of the BLUE book. This book has wholesale prices that are approximately what dealers are willing to pay for coins. The RED book is retail prices...in other words if you went out to buy the coins you could expect to pay approximately red book value. Now...with that said...the values are approximate only and are not the gospel. You can look in your local yellow pages and find some dealers, then show the coins to multiple dealers. Don't sell to the first one! After visiting your area dealers sell them to the one with the best offer. You could also list them for sale on ebay and possibly get a bit more, but be prepared to photograph them and learn enough knowledge to create accurate descriptions about them. Lastly, have FUN with this. If you don't become a collector yourself, this may be your only chance to learn some things about coins and coin collecting. Regards, Nick
