How much would you pay for this?

Singapore

MrEureka

Very interesting...

VonZipper

1c

FC57Coins

Kewl looking Vermont - have no clue what it would be worth - what condition would you say the coin is in - any damage?

Singapore

I guess I'd call it a VG maybe, about the same quality planchet as many of these had.

So far we have an offer of face value from Erik. Anyone else?

Gilbert

Singapore,

Haven't got a clue what its worth. Sounds like you want it and someone has asked you to make an offer but you also don't have a clue as to its value. I'm probably way off base too, but, I got a similar coin that I could place no value on. Nor was it a coin I would seek out, but here goes;

I purchased some other coins from a dealer (vest pocket I think) and was due about $20 change, and so I said just give me something of approximate value. He "claimed" this coin was about it. It turns out it is about am AG half-penny; could be a Machin Mills copy or an actual British halfpenny. No one has been able to nail it down and neither is worth the money to further investigate.

Now, tell me what you're really after.

goose3

without knowing anything about it........10 bucks or so just because it's kind of neat.

why do I have the feeling that 10.00 is going to look really dumb one way or the other!

Singapore

Gilbert -

Not quite.

This is a 'legendary' Vermont Ryder 15 that sold recently in Bowers Baltimore auction for $18,400. Most observers thought that was a good buy. Seriously.

jadecoin

Singapore, what was the variety that sold at the MSNS Convention last fall in the Scotsman auction for $33,000? I was in the room when the bidding went crazy. It started at $12K, I think. Then there was a bidding war between a phone bidder and a well known colonial coin expert out of Ann Arbor (I won't name his name for the sake of privacy). It finally ended at around $33,000 and went to the phone bidder. As I recall, it was an R.7 variety and was a previously unknown example. Ryder-26 maybe?

Julian

I do not remember seeing a break like that on a Vt. My guess is that it is either a very rare Ryder # or a very rare die state. It could be worth in the thousands.

Singapore

Jade -

I think, but I'm not positive, it was a Ryder 33, and the conjcture was that it would sell for its Ryder number in the thousands, which I think it did.

I'm not a Vermont specialist but there are plenty of enthusiastic bidders in this series.

dorkkarl

$1500

a lot of the perkins coins went for too much $, especially in hindsight, where some of the rarity ratings were too optimistic as other examples of "r7" & "r6" varieties came to light

K S

BillJones

It's a face only a die variety specialist could love. I understand the disease. I once paid $1,100 for a ground salvage 1805 half cent, but I am now cured of that disorder. If I can't afford a better example or not better one exists, I will not own one.

BTW I sold the ground salvage half cent for $1,200 when I got tired of it.