"Own 163 of the rarest coins in history..."

seanq

ebay auction link

Someone here scored about a dozen of these (1960-D Small over Large Date cents) in a BU roll, I guess we know now who found the rest of them. Nothing like flooding the market to take the wind out of a price's sails.


Sean Reynolds

DMWJR

Interesting description.

DennisH

Why is it the guy can't take a photo worth a darn of the certified coin, or make the date shots big enough to actually see something, yet the shots of the 2x2 pile are just fine?

frnklnlvr

$70/coin, seems kinda high for that quantity doesn't it?

Overdate

Back in 1965 I bought a *circulated* roll of 1960-D small over large date cents, mostly XF-AU, for $1.25 per coin. The fact that someone was able to find that many in change means that the number of existing specimens, while not large, is considerably more than 500. I believe a few hundred have been graded by the major TPGs, and most of them are uncirculated. My own guess is that the mintage is comparable to the 1955 doubled die obverse, somewhere in the low five figures.

This coin has only been in the Red Book for a few years, so I think it has a decent chance to appreciate over time as it becomes more well known. However, my guess is that the 1960 Philadelphia overdate proofs - small over large date, and large over small date - are scarcer and currently more reasonably priced in relation to their mintages.

pb2y

The phantom 8.
http://www.houstoncoinclub.org/articles/The%20Phantom%20Eight.htm