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<p>[QUOTE="Michael K, post: 4244198, member: 78298"]It's a nice looking cent, and if you like it you can put it in a 2x2 coin flip and save it. Not all nice looking coins have a lot of value.</p><p>It's basically 1 cent. It's true there may be an assigned value in a book for such a coin at a certain grade. (10 cents, 20 cents, w/e). But there's no market for this modern cent. Dealers are not buying it from you for a nickel or 10 cents, and reselling it at retail for 20 cents. Maybe, you could find a collector who wants it for their album and it's better than what they have and they might give you a nickel or a dime for it. But are you going to do X number of dollars of work, search, shipping to make a nickel profit? It's a spender. It would have to be super high grade (68,69)</p><p>to have value.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Michael K, post: 4244198, member: 78298"]It's a nice looking cent, and if you like it you can put it in a 2x2 coin flip and save it. Not all nice looking coins have a lot of value. It's basically 1 cent. It's true there may be an assigned value in a book for such a coin at a certain grade. (10 cents, 20 cents, w/e). But there's no market for this modern cent. Dealers are not buying it from you for a nickel or 10 cents, and reselling it at retail for 20 cents. Maybe, you could find a collector who wants it for their album and it's better than what they have and they might give you a nickel or a dime for it. But are you going to do X number of dollars of work, search, shipping to make a nickel profit? It's a spender. It would have to be super high grade (68,69) to have value.[/QUOTE]
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