1877 Indian Cent

I've wanted one of these for over 40 years...now I have one. I always try to buy the key dates first, then the rest of the set.

 

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Glad you got one, I need one myself. I don't have anywhere close to 40 years to get one.

 

Nice pick up...I had 1 sold it ..xf as it had pitting issues. And never replaced it the only hole in my set.
And interresting fact there are no variety known for the date.

 

It is one of those alluring specimens that collectors just have to have. An exciting date to own -

 

Great coins guys! I always dreamed of finding one Metal Detecting but never did. Closest was my 1870!

 

I'm waiting to find an XF at the Coinstar machine at my local Walmart.

 

The 1877 Indian Cent was my dream coin in high school. I finally got one. It had Fine sharpness for the time, but there was a very small green spot on the reverse. Today the sharpness grade would be Choice VF. I don’t know what the minor spot would have done to the slab grade. The coin went with the set when I sold it circa 1973.

I had a couple of other ones when I was a dealer. One was in a nice accumulation of Indian Cents I bought raw. Unfortunately I had been lightly cleaning. In those days, cleaned coins came back in “body bags” so I had to send it to ANACS to go into an old “bar soap” holder.

I bought the second one raw from a collector. It was very nice, but it wasn’t AU-58 nice, which was what NGC graded it. Old time grading called it EF-45 because it had no luster.

 

Many years ago, I went to one of those shopping mall coin shows. A guy had an 1877 Indian he had found with a metal detector. There was no question as to what it was. The trouble was it had a big gash into the coin that had probably been from being hit with a sharp object. It was such that it would not have fit in an album hole. He couldn’t get $20 for it.

 

Oh wow! That stinks. Ehat's worse is when you ding a coin with a digging shovel. Did that with my Fugio. Good thing it was "toast" from being in the ground all those years.

 

Good things come with patience. Thanks for sharing.

 

Oldest for me was an 1876 specimen. Close...but just close.

 

Happy when anyone can get that "one" coin they long for.

 

I've got all of the coins except the 1877. I got a 4 square of 1877 stamps and then I got an 1877 metal coaster. My friends were trying to help me. I did get a couple of chuckles out of them.

 

Unfortunately, this picture was rushed and doesn't capture it fairly. A bit outside my budget at that time, but fun to see a grand specimen nearly 150 years old.