1793 Nova Constellatio

I came across this copper coin in my dad's coin collection. It's in pretty good condition and was wondering if these coinds are valuable enough to be professionally graded.

Thanks for the help

 

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whoops, 1783, and I'm adding pics of it

 

Hulkster,where's the photos? I'd like to see the coin,as all the other members would.

Aidan.

 

I've got vista and having trouble resizing the photos to make them fit. It was easier with XP.

 

Hulkster,you can always use www.imageshack.us .

Aidan.

 

hopefully this works

 

If it helps, I took it to a local coin dealer (one of the best in the city) who asked me where the hell I got it from. He then said that it looked like a real one to him, but he couldn't really grade it for me.

 

Hulkster,that's a very nice coin you've got there.

Aidan.

 

hey, nice coin. where did you come across this? your dads collection?

interesting, it could be very valuable but also it could be fake. i see you resized the picturs.. now there kinda small , cant really see the coin good at all

take a few new pictures.

mark

 

I just bought one today

I bought one of these today and just came across this in researching it.
Yours appears to be a 1785.

There are some good pics and info here.

http://www.coins.nd.edu/ColCoin/ColCoinText/Cons-Nova85.html

 

Very nice piece.
I know that it is almost heresy here, but I'd get it slabbed to get a grade and be sure that it was genuine.

 

Bump

Just bumping this thread to say that I got it slabbed by NGC. It graded as a "VF-25 1785 Lg. Date Point Rays" making its Red Book value at $525. Not a bad deal!!

 

Kudos!

 

Congrats! Thats a nice piece to get in a holder!

 

Good move getting it slabbed, now you know the it is genuine.
Congrats.

 

Nice !

Mine is nearly a slug, now.

I tried cleaning it with hydrogen peroxide, before reading all of the great advice in this forum.
The green stuff was so imbedded, when it went, the details went.
At least I can still see the date and some of the rays on the reverse.
Lesson learned.