Newp: 1837 Feuchtwanger Cent-ANACS Grade Revealed & opinions wanted!
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Heres my newest coin that I received last week but I just got a chance to take images of it today. I was looking for one of these for a while. So, I was checking out Jade Rare Coin's website last week and bam I saw this one listed. Thanks Dennis!
ANACS VF20
ANACS VF20
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<< <i>I'll have to excuse myself from guessing. I went to the JRC website to see if there were other examples, and yours is still up. >>
No cheating. Test your grading skills.
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I'll reveal the ANACS grade soon.
<< <i>I'll have to excuse myself from guessing. I went to the JRC website to see if there were other examples, and yours is still up.
Darn! John bought the Feuchtwanger just before the Baltimore show and I didn't have a chance to update the site until today. It has been removed and only coins that are still available are on the website. We are uploading new purchases throughout the day.
I forgot the grade of the coin, but I will guess AU-50.
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<< <i>Without looking at any of the other responses. I'd call it strong VF, mayby XF >>
I've seen a couple of those with clips, though never in my price range. They're such neat coins, I do hope that someday my collection can include one.
Sean Reynolds
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<< <i>BTW: How many of these Feuchtwanger Cents, do you think were minted? I can't find a mintage figure anywhere. >>
John,
Dr. Feuchtwanger did not keep accurate mint records. Stating the amount of tokens struck would be a guess, but it could be an educated guess. There are 12 die combinations, 3 of which are R.1 (very common), 1 R.2, 3 R.3 and the rest are R.4 to R.8. I have seen hoards of these, including a guy a few years ago who had about 200 pieces. Those facts, together with a gut feeling of how many I have seen, I would guess that a couple thousand are extant. How many were minted? Hmmmm. I will take a guess. These tokens circulated heavily for a few decades, so I would guess that many were lost. I doubt any were melted, since there's little to no intrinsic value to the planchets. That would put a survival rate of.....wild guess.....10%. Therefore, I would say that about 20,000 were struck between 1837 and 1865. Again, this is just a quick, wild guess utilizing a bit of known data on the coins as a foundation.
Much, much rarer, however, are the Feuchtwanger Three Cent coins............
We bought and sold the PCGS MS-66 (Pop 1/0) example within the past 6 months. What a killer coin that was! Our current NGC MS-66 is not quite as nice, hence the lower price. We sold it for close to $5,000.
Dennis
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<< BTW: How many of these Feuchtwanger Cents, do you think were minted? I can't find a mintage figure anywhere. >>
Doing some research today I found a reference in Rulau that Q. David Bowers suggests that up to a million of the 1 cent pieces were in circulation, along with a few thousand 3 cent pieces. That's a lot more than my guess of 20,000!
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