What Do The Large Cent Experts Think?

That coin made me wish I had no eyes for as long as it took to click off that page.

I agree, since several people were willing to pay close to what it went for, they apparently thought it was worth it. This wasn't a couple people in a bidding war.

i bought an ugly almost unreadable date 1794 cent awhile ago. Here is a pic of it. Dbad pic with whitish glare on it but you get the overall gist of the ugliest coin I have! :)

Coin is genuine, has been dipped, looks to be a S-41 which is a common variety, and in that condition would typically retail in the $100 - $150 range. I bought a S-22 (also common) in worse shape than that in the EAC sale earlier this year for $78. If I needed an S-41 I would gladly have paid more than what this piece sold for.

Thanks Conder101 - I could not tell the variety, as I mentioned been working on learning Half Cents first, but next up Large cents, I have been intrigued by them for years, and handled a few nice examples up to MS64 just never kept any for myself. The early coppers seem to have the most research done on them over the years, they are what started what we know today as US coin collecting.

Joseph Mickley of Philadelphia was the first famous American collector. His hunt for a Large Cent from the year of his birth began the tradition of collecting all of the coins of a series from every year of issue.

Westcoin: I'd like to have a 1794 head of 94 too but be glad you didn't win this one. That coin is just yuck and then I don't have the right words English well maybe deplorable get its. You can get a coin with the same technical detail with original copper color for less than $500 all the way up to Good-6. Of course the variable detail depends on the strike (especially the reverse detail inside the wreath) and is the coin porous or not porous and if yes how severe. Other consideration would be how many rim bumps or nicks are present.

Ouch! No thanks.