Do the stains on this IHC bother you?

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For an 1877 IHC? Nope!

 

+1

 

Is this one you own or are considering buying? that date is waaaaay out of my price range but I like dreaming about buying one at some point

 

Not at all!!!its an 1877 can't get any better besides getting a better one

 

Not sure about the stains, but the green gunk bothers me.

 

Why some collectors would accept all kinds of problems on key dates is beyond me. I wouldn’t.

 

because someone like me can't afford a normal example even in the lowest grade but just some problems knock off big money on it i can only dream to get a straight grade 1916 D any time soon even in the lowest grade.

 

I don't like the color. That might just be the picture, but that's all I have to go on. The coin looks like it was "pickled".

 

Looks like old Environmental Damage. But still passable with a TPG.

 

True, I don't like the color either. Not sure it is real. And Larry didn't make it enlargeable either. Hmmm. Jim

 

Yes they do.

 

Ctrl + is your friend, and I see an honest VF example.......

 

Thanks, did not know that trick.

I am just not a fan, sorry. Not for straight grade money. Is that serious strike weakness normal for the date? The color, too, I do not recall seeing that color in the stuff I have in rolls. I have quite a few 1860's and 1870's in rolls beside the common dates from odd lots I picked up, and do not remember that color. However, it is the internet and it could just be the pick. Just a tad less red hue and it might look fine in hand, (save for that strike weakness).

 

This is a little better. It's actually even more of a darker brown.
If we get to do Fun next year, I'll bring it for you to image.

 

Nice. I think I can see the die clash on the reverse. Rick Snow let me look at the top pop (I think) when I was in his shop about a year and a half ago. I said nice reverse clash and he explained that all 77s have that because they came from the same die? Or maybe I mis-understood or recall wrong (it's been a long year and a half)...

 

I like that picture much better. Hopefully I get to see the two of you at FUN next year.

 

I wish I could view this coin in hand, to confirm that the weak n in one and cent are not "enhanced" to appear weak.
it does not appear that the area below the date was smoothed, so that helps in being genuine, certainly.
Weak die strike can be weird and do weird things, though, to either n, depending on state of the die.

 

It looks genuine to me. Both the Ns in ONE CENT look right in there. The more subtle of the two, the one in CENT, is chopped off where it's supposed to be. The color looks good in this second set of pictures, and I can't imagine why anyone would attempt to counterfeit the grease strike as seen here. There may have been a spill of something or other on the obverse, I'm not sure, or of what, but the discolor in the field in front of the face looks suggestive of that to me.

 

I don't disagree. I just do not ever make a final opinion about coins from pictures.

I have observed enhancement of the diagnostics. As to why, even at a low g4 grade, there is (and was) a monetary incentive.