Please Grade This 1872 Half Dime

A damaged and disfigured coin such as this is worth very little. I would pay $10 and no more.

Thanks everyone for the help.

Thanks paralyse - I see them now.

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$10 coin IMHO..maybe.

Correct. Technically a peacock blue, golden amber (a bit too yellow in real life for honey), 7-Up green, and royal purple. These were great guesses though - the pic being small throws it off.

Since its my thread and I got the answers I wanted... here are some previously posted pics of more of them... but not all! There is another case with 200 to the left of the display in the last picture in the following series. Also un the last pic there are two rows hidden by the upper part of the curtain. Add to this two poles outisde and a section of fence made of crossarms, plus them lining my walk and brick wall -
quote a few on display (and 10 totes holding about 50 or so each!)











And I just got done publishing an insulator reference guide containing an identification system for a certain kind of popular insulators, The book also is the first book of Brookfield Glass company history (largest glassmaker in USA in 1800s early 1900s).

...yeah... I am hooked

Like coins though, they have amazing history.

If you want to talk about them sometime - PM me!

There are certain locations in the Midwest where those type of insulators are still on poles! I remember hunting them as a kid.

You usually only see the standard Hemingray greens, clears, and aquas so that shelf is worthy to the extreme, some of those look close to vaseline and one on the third up from the bottom looks close to amberina...

In fruit jars those colors would be worth a very large amount of money. VERY large. I know insulators have the same rarity-by-color, approximately, so I can only imagine at the amount of time and money invested in such a collection.

As a collector of cobalt, those cobalt-looking ones just kill me.

Used to see these on poles still in Arkansas & Oklahoma 20-30 years ago. Sometimes they'd even have fallen on the ground on poles replaced by newer poles, where they had left the old ones standing. Unfortunately never could get mom & dad to pull over and let me go grab them. Nowadays they're all gone. The sole insulator in my collection is a dirt-common green Hemingray.