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1884 Canada One Cent

badhop55badhop55 Posts: 177 ✭✭✭
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Came across this in my Dad's stuff the other day. Worth sending in? Thanks in advance.

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    sylsyl Posts: 1,064 ✭✭✭✭

    It's an Obverse 2, the most common of the '84's. The photo is very grainy and looks spotty. Full retail in Trends is less than $100 Cdn ( about $75 US), so the cost to certify (if they will) would be a huge % of what it would ever be worth.

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    ajaanajaan Posts: 17,974 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Too many spots. Not worth sending in.


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    ashelandasheland Posts: 24,531 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It looks like it was polished, :(

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    sylsyl Posts: 1,064 ✭✭✭✭

    I don't think that it was polished, but it may have spent over 100 years under varnish, hence the weird spots. I've seen coins like this where just a wet sneeze that got some on the coin caused spots like that. The photos aren't good enough to really tell anything about the surface.

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    badhop55badhop55 Posts: 177 ✭✭✭

    Thanks to all for the input.

    I have no idea what the history is for the coin. How long it was in the family or whether it was cleaned etc. It was in a Tupperware container with some 1800's US One Cent coins as well as various silver and non silver coinage. I'll see if I can get some images that show the surface better though looking at it from a certain angle shows the surface to be a bit "pebbly".

    Thanks again!

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