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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;beef1020, post: 2071262, member: 24544&quot;]Thanks for taking the critique of your coin well.&nbsp; The pictures may do the coin some injustice.&nbsp; Ebay is a tough place to find 18th century copper coins, I find a lot of them to be the lower quality stuff which doesn&#039;t do well in auction house sales, or priced too high.&nbsp; The nicer stuff tends to be in larger auctions, like the goldberg sale that just ended, or with copper dealers.&nbsp; Honestly, some of the copper dealers who specialize in area have nice coins at reasonable prices.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is the link to Mainebill&#039;s coin that I was mentioning.&nbsp; You can see it has corrosion, but a very natural patina which is not distracting.&nbsp; I find this to be a very attractive coin in spite of the corrosion:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/most-affordable-1700s-us-coin.257040/#post-2045353" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/most-affordable-1700s-us-coin.257040/#post-2045353">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/most-affordable-1700s-us-coin.257040/#post-2045353</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Totally eye of the beholder with these coins.&nbsp; A lot of early collectors have a strong preference against certain problems, like rim dings.&nbsp; Other&#039;s don&#039;t like scratches.&nbsp; Some want a nice surface and color, but don&#039;t mind some minor dings/scratches.&nbsp; It&#039;s personal <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; Like I said, nice coin.&nbsp; It&#039;s very rare, and has a good amount of meat left details wise.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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