Value of rare coins in America in 1893.
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Compiled by Thomas Edison in his Handy Encyclopedia of General Information. My copy is a little rough but that’s ok.
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Nice “numisamericana” item!
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Early Walkers
Very cool. "Good" was probably XF and "fine" AU.
Wow! What will today's prices look like in 130 years?
very cool. thxs for sharing
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Does it give any indication about how much value to add for coins with a sticker?
There was an economic depression that year, most people were living on farms and trying to eek out a living.
Don't know don't care and not hanging to see that. Have a great weekend all 👍
No gold coins. Sad.
those "fines" are now CAC'd MS67s
I want to jump into my time machine and go back and buy some (if not all!) of those coins.
Louis Armstrong
Two sizes of 1793 half cents?
Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
Even with the inflation calculator pegging 1893 $ to todays “dollar” at 1 to 35…. these prices are absurdly low.
Not only is a Chain Cent in fine $5 but a fine in those days was AU maybe better.
Can you imagine the reaction of a hard laboring farmer or factory worker as his son shows him an old half penny that he paid $5.00 for using three years worth of his hard earned savings?
That young collector would have gotten the belt.