Cast Novelty 1776 Continental Dollars Sell For Record Prices

Broadstruck · September 8, 2014 9:50PM

1.) $383.00 Shipped w/ No Return Option

2.) $512.32 Shipped

3.) $863.00 Shipped

coinsarefun · September 9, 2014 12:21AM

holy crap

I got a few....and will sell cheap

Broadstruck · September 9, 2014 12:30AM

I've been watching these for a while as around the time of the Newman colonial sale they started to jump in prices. Some replicas even with the word copy scratched out started to fetch around $175.00 to upwards of $300.00 However these 3 recent examples are even further intense increases for novelty strikes that you would find in a museum gift shop for a couple bucks.

Sonorandesertrat · September 9, 2014 12:36AM

Good grief. There's a sucker born every minute.

NumisOxide · September 9, 2014 12:42AM

That's just sad.

nwcoast · September 9, 2014 12:54AM

Junk!!!!
A fool and their money.....

LindeDad · September 9, 2014 1:38AM

BillJones · September 9, 2014 1:40AM

The knit wits who bought these things must trying out for one of the leading roles the new sequel to "Dumb and Dumber."

These things aren't even good casted fakes.

cladking · September 9, 2014 1:45AM

Jeesh. I've got a pretty good sized collection of these and I wouldn't pay over a couple buck for one I need.

Are these guys really just collectors?

I'll have to see if I have the ones bringing high prices. I'd be a seller for sure.

BillJones · September 9, 2014 3:27AM

This is an example of how people can really do themselves a lot of harm in an auction. If a dealer were to put prices like this on these things at show, the best thing that could happen to him would be that they would not sell. If you sold one of these to a show attendee for $300 + and he or she showed to the show chairman, you might get kicked out. If you put these things into someone's retirement or "investment portfolio," dealers who have sold better stuff than this at high prices have been convicted of fraud or put out of business by the Federal Trade Commission.

Yet if you sell this at auction at these prices you are as happy as pig in the mud. It really shows that venue means everything.

coindeuce · September 9, 2014 3:39AM

The Milbury, Massachusetts seller claims to be a full time, long time dealer, yet in the same description claims to not know much about his replica. He knew exactly what he had, and should be shunned and sanctioned in any way possible. Creep!

kaz · September 9, 2014 4:04AM

Sheesh just when I thought I'd seen everything.

Raufus · September 9, 2014 4:18AM

Beyond belief.

Ajjohnson77 · September 9, 2014 4:48AM

Looks like I could have made that thing.

Stuart · September 9, 2014 5:56AM

William Claude Dukenfield had a way with words...

BillJones · September 9, 2014 6:18AM

<< <i>Looks like I could have made that thing. >>

All you would need would be some beach sand to make that casting mold. They would have had hard time passing off something this bad in the 19th century.