What is the value of a nice VG 10 1795 Cent?
BigE
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AnkurJ's post reminded me of this. I bought this many moons ago, a 1795 cent. It is very choice, says s-65 on the holder, nice chocolate brown color, well struck obverse, reverse weaker, dealer offered me 500.00 for it last week when I accidentally brought it to his shop with some other coins. Can an expert give me a ballpark, not sure if these are my dealers forte', Thanks in advance!-----BigE
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From the description I'd accidentally let it go back from where it came - your collection!
Eric
<< <i>Maybe 500.00 was a fair offer, everyone needs to make a buck
I've heard much worse offers. However, S-65 is a 1794 cent. Sounds like it might be a very nice coin. --Jerry
<< <i>I've heard much worse offers. However, S-65 is a 1794 cent. Sounds like it might be a very nice coin. --Jerry >>
Bingo.
E, Got a pic?
<< <i>no, has fraction bar---------BigE >>
My fault... S-65 in VG10 sold for $700 on 9/20/10...
1794 S-65
EAC 6024
1794 S-65 Shielded Hair
The most common 1794 variety, and overgraded most of the time due to the hair detail. This is the "Shielded Hair" variety, which always comes with the lower left dentils on the obverse struck very high (and correspondingly weak in the upper right,) protecting the hair detail. I bought this from an EAC dealer.
Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
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The obv looks a little less than a 10 and the rev looks a little better than a 10... not sure it would make it into a PCGS slab?
<< <i>Mark - That was nice of you to drive over to his home and take those photos!
Drive? Are you kidding? My chauffeur has already been sent home for the night. I commandeered Longacre's private jet and flew over.
I don't know what PCGS would do with the coin, but I'd send it in the ANACS slab with a minimum cross and see what happened.
Seems like a $500 offer made you pay attention.
You could give a friend a great dealal $450 and feel good about it and, your friend would be happy.'
Or you could squeeze every cent out of it
For $500, I would have took it.
EAC 6024
It may not grade in a PCGS holder because the edge damage at 9 k on the obverse, but in this grade that does not bother me very much. A big plus is the fact that the reverse lettering is complete, including the words "ONE CENT." That feature is often missing on these early cents, and having all of the lettering on a lower grade piece is quite unusual.
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Great looking coin you have there Tree.
Is that damage or just crud on the the lower right edge? I wouldn't bother me in the least either way since the coin is so nice. I think ANACS would have noted it as damage if that's what it is. Love to own that one.
That's a very nice coin, IMO.