1877 Indian Head Penny MS-66 on Ebay

DCAMFranklin

Just a gorgeous coin! An awful lot of red for RB

1877 IHP in MS-66

kranky

That's shylock's.

shylock

DCAM - thanks for the nice comments, the coin deserves it. As Kranky mentioned it's my listing and as mentioned in the BST forum, it's essentially full red and lustrous but with enough woodgrain variegation to merit RB. You do, however, see many 1877 RDs that got more slack than this one.

Admittedly it will be tough to get its true value in an ICG holder. Thought I'd test the waters and see if some collector could see through the plastic on this one.

lordmarcovan

I knew it looked familiar.

I was thinkin' to myself, "dang- where did I see that thing last night?"

I guess is an appropriate emoticon, since they don't have one for "jealous".

DCAMFranklin

Paul-
I had no idea that was a Member's coin. Wow! I've been on Ebay just short of 4 years now and I don't know if I've seen but maybe 4, or so, of the 1877 IHC in better than gem condition.

I'm interested. Did you make the coin? Did you pick the coin up in your part of the country?I've seen a lot of coins in RD holders that didn't show the brilliance of that coin. Really nice!

Pushkin

Paul,

Very beautiful coin. Thanks so much for sharing it with us. Wish I could buy it.

Best of luck with your sale. I would think with the PhotoSeal a knowledgeable collector would not care about the plastic?

shylock

I bought it about a year and a half ago, on a short layaway from Rick Snow (Eagle Eye Rare Coins), and it was already made in the ICG holder. He described it then as "99% RED. Fully struck with outstanding problem free surfaces...Improvable only by getting a full red example." It's one of the few ICG slabs I've seen with his photoseal, and felt it was about as nice an example as I would find that I could just barely afford.

It's tough to place a figure on the % of red with this coin. Virtually all of the "non-red" is slightly darker toned grains of alloy that filter through it. It's not your typical RB with large areas of brown toning, and the result is a full red look on a RB coin.

IrishMike

Here's another great IHC for sale on Ebay.1872

toothpuller

I personally love that 72RB. It's been holdered at least three years [stable color], no woodgraining. The image looks like it has a good chance to go RD. This is the kind that Eagle Eye often refers to as 90 or even 99% red. Always wondered why they weren't in RD holders, if he thought they were that much red. At least my interpretation of Rick Montgomery's explanation of copper color would seem to indicate that a coin with that % of red should be in a RD holder.