1826 Double Struck Liberty Head Large Cent - PCGS

Very cool thanks for getting back to us. Glad to see that it is authentic. Do you plan to keep it or sell it? Just curious.

This is an awesome outcome. Thank you for sharing the process with the Forum.

If your interest is liquidation, the coin should be consigned through one of the major numismatic auction houses. Frankly, this one has the chops to be in one of the "Signature" auctions associated with major coin shows and events. There is no reason to believe this coin won't fetch a 4-digit price at auction. The offset is huge, and double-struck Large Cents are sufficiently common to support a specialist community. This broadens your potential market of folks with pockets sufficiently deep to buy the coin.

Terrific story.

Couldn't agree more. I can easily see this coin going for $2-3K maybe more to the specialist. I mean, how many of these do you see every day plus it has the PCGS seal of approval

Congratulations! So happy that it came back authentic for you! Thanks for posting your TPG result. This is really an incredible story. Wow, just wow.

I sent it to about 100 coin dealers..No one wants to give a price..They all recommend Fred though, so he's the man. He wrote to me and told me that he got a load of emails but wasn't interested. I guess I'll put it up on heritage. Thank you

That is a very reasonable compromise. The new owner could conceivably make money on a flip (if that's his interest) but even if you left something on the table it wasn't much and chancy at that. I'd have taken that deal.

Nice price! I imagine it's not the last time this cent will be sold this year, though.