Looking for some nice circulated 20 centers...

KoinKollector

95% ive seen are cleaned, 4.99% of them people think they found gold or something and @ .01% actually look nice. Help me find that .01%. Im looking for a nice matched set in VG-F (minus of course the 76-cc, unless uncle TDN wants to buy me one for my birthday this saturday )

lordmarcovan

I got a nice one from BigD5 about a year and a half ago. It was an 1875 (P).

I only have an obverse picture of it left.

It matched my set pretty well, as my coins ranged from VF30 to MS62 with the majority being EF-AU (I think the numerical grade average was about 45). Another forum member now owns it. (The guy who bought my entire Seated type set, which was something like 23 coins, from the half dimes to the dollars. I included the 20c and the Trade dollar in there, too.)

Yours should be a fun pursuit. Personally, I now want two 20c pieces, from opposite ends of the spectrum: a holed, circulated piece for the Holey Coin Vest, and a PCGS or NGC- certified proof.

shirohniichan

Good luck! After lots of looking, I finally found a nice 1875-P in VF on eBay for my world 20 cent piece collection. I went to Long Beach and other shows, and all I saw there were whizzed, scrubbed, or dipped so much the surfaces looked like raw aluminum.

KoinKollector

anyone else?? Know a dealer where I can find some nice ones?

Kejun99

I've got a '75 s in Fine but am keeping it in my type set.... bought it in 1978... at auction ... fields show a little wear but overall a nice sample..they're too hard to find to look for a nicer one. '75s was a huge mintage though.

KoinKollector

wow... these are even less popular than seated dimes.

lordmarcovan

Or maybe they're more popular, which is why you're havin' trouble finding one...

The nice original midgrade pieces probably go into a collection and don't come out until the person's estate is sold. (Kejun99's post seems to bear this out. Probably a lot of type collectors are the same way.) This is the problem I had with nice midgrade early large cents. Everything on the market was either cull or MS, with little affordable stuff in between. A nice F12 to F15 common-variety 1798 cent without problems and nice surfaces was a big challenge for me a couple years ago. It took me a year and a half to find the right coin for me, and ironically, it was at my local dealer (who seldom has much that I need, so I usually shop eBay instead). And even then, the coin I found did not have ideal surfaces for my tastes. Just "good enough", not great.

I also had a nice 1875-S in a green-label PCGS VF25 slab, before I upgraded it to the coin I got from BigD5 that I showed above. It looked original to me, too, but it had very faint traces of a fingerprint on the obverse.

lordmarcovan

berylcoin

LM, If you'd like the reverse scan for posterity I've got it saved somewhere. I'm looking for a twin to that coin, at least in quality and originality. I think I may be looking for quite a while.

If anyone knows the magical secret to finding these coins, I'd like to hear it, too.

BC