Mercury 10c 1942/41 --zombie edition

Yeah--this coin is painful to look at, it looks like a zombie aka walker from The Walking Dead!
It had me thinking...if I found it, would I keep it, or sell it for a few bucks--but how much? The seller wants $418; it's in an Anacs holder as "corroded/tooled", aka DOA

 

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as we Numistmatists can be picky over terms like penny vs cent and double die vs doubled die...I feel the need to correct you here...they're walkers....not zombies

 

I think I cringed a little to hard...

 

I'm pretty tired of the whole zombie trend, but I've got to go along with your description here.

 

Too bad about the coin. The reverse is pretty sharp.

 

Yeah--something highly corrosive like acid hit it, but the "cleaning" job sure didn't help either.

 

This may prove that ANACS will grade anything.....

 

no way would I buy that. for a little more you could get a decent looking 1

 

ANACS didn't grade it .
The slab say corroded/tooled and thats not a grade ..
It's the same as if it were in a pcgs slab that says
" Genuine " corroded/tooled ..

 

Here's the auction--the Anacs slab says "AU50 details", but I don't consider that a valid grade either.

 

Agreed, " Detailed is the key word here ...

 

Buy stuff like this one, you can't go wrong ..

 

Not sure what the aftermarket wants for them. But it's probably less than $418.

 

I'd say considerably less. LOL.

 

I would continue my search

 

That one is easy - if I found it I would sell it for what I could get.

 

Well the price had one too many numbers attached... That coin looks like the attractive girl that went overboard on plastic surgery. Or the wicked witch after you threw a glass on water on her face

 

Pass. Too much damage especially at that price.

 

Definitely Zombiesque! I was at a coin shop and the owner had one half of a 14D Lincoln. He marked it down by 50%. I passed of course.

 

Wow--nice "logic" on that price! I don't think fractions work in this case LOL

I'm not looking to buy one attributed, especially not that disaster. I only wondered how much value this coin actually retains? I would guess less than half, more like 10% with that "eye appeal". For any price, I would probably mask part of the slab so I didn't have to look at that damage.