My great-grandma died last week and they found a columbia 1881 2 1/2 centavos in her drawer...

notlogical

Is it worth anything? I would appreciate any help any one can give.

thanks!

clarkbar04

Catalog prices range from 3.50 in VG to 30.00 in XF.

Looks like a crude design, yet I can't help but like it!

WillieBoyd2

Please sir, can we have a picture?

lordmarcovan

Izzat the little dinky one with the liberty cap on a pole?

If so, it might interest you to know those were struck in the USA, at the Scovill or Waterbury button factory- Scovill, I think... in... Connecticut, as I recall.

DorkGirl

Sorry to hear about your great grandma

Blackhawk

There are two different varieties of the 1881 2½ centavos from Columbia...one is about the size of a US dime and was struck at the Heaton mint in England. The other is about the size of a US half dime and is listed as the 1881 (w) in Krause, so maybe the W stands for Waterbury.

lordmarcovan

It is the 1881 W (yes, for Waterbury) that I was thinking of.

ozzysdad47

I've got one of them myself, from Colombia, Dos Y Medio's Centavo? I haven't checked the minmark, But i do recall reading in Krause that there is one varitey that was struck as a pattern. and had a nice value. If you look it up in Krause, be sure to check the listing under pattern's.

ozzysdad.............

lathmach

notlogical, this coin is priceless. Get possession of it and keep it always, in memory of your Great Grandmother.
Regardless of intrinsic or collector value, this is something that may mean much to you in the years to come.
My Great Grandfather was in the 1st Michigan Sharpshooters during the Civil War, wounded at Spotsylvania, and captured and imprisoned at Andersonville, Georgia by the Rebels.
I would love dearly to have something that had belonged to him.
I'd even like to have something that had belonged to my Granddad.
He died in 1906. Dragged to death by a team of runaway horses.
My dad was just a 2 year old toddler then.

Ray

lordmarcovan

He has a point. Sometimes the family or sentimental significance of an item vastly outweighs its monetary value.

I started collecting coins on Thanksgiving Day of 1976, after finding a 1936 Mercury dime in my grandmother's sideboard while I was setting the table for the big feast. She later gave me a number of other coins.

31 years later, many coins have come and gone, but I still have the humble VG 1936 Merc dime that started it all. It's worth a buck or two at most, monetarily, but I wouldn't take several hundred bucks for it.