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Just sold an 1811 large cent on ebay in f-vf condition (corroded) for $240. Bad deal? Edited by coindude411
08/25/2007 6:16 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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How corroded?
Price seems a little low to me.
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Not that bad except that all the stars on the left side were weak.
I will try to get a picture up.
Thanks for you're post!
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That appears to be pretty significant corrision. I think you got a good price.
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I think that it was a good deal. However I'm not really into coins from the 17 or 1800's. (Too expensive) But they're all beautiful and works of art.
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I guess its an okay deal...since I only bought it for 30 bucks
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Edited by Benji
09/02/2007 4:00 pm
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Seems like an excellent price. Last year I bought a classic head cent in F12-15 with no apparent problems (emphasis on "apparent" - this coin is currently at NGC being graded, or not graded if it's cleaned or something) for $215. Yours has more detail and more corrosion. I have posted pics in the Coin Grading Practice forum to compare my estimated grade with others'.
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benji what did you say?
Edited by coindude411
08/26/2007 2:37 pm
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This series of Large Cents are made with a soft copper blend that is very subject to corrision. A problem free coin is hard to come by. I have one in my 7070 that is a good strike and has just a tad more wear than yours, but is not corroded or cleaned. The cost was $240 over a year ago. I think you did all right.
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benji what did you say?
what he is saying is that maybe you had a rare die marriage and someone that belongs to EAC saw it and cherrypicked your coin from you, in other words paying a couple hundred dollars for a rare die marriage worth thousands of dollars. EAC is a group of copper coin experts and if they happened upon your auction they would probably be the ones to recognize a rare die marriage or rare something else from your photo's, about like all of us VAMsters that look for specific VAM's in the morgan series, I myself have gotten some pretty rare coins for what a coin of the same grade would have cost just because no other vamsters were looking at the same coin, and on the other hand I have paid close to double for some because the coin has attracted allot of attention from the other VAMsters. It is just another thing to learn in this never ending hobby we call coin collecting |
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There are no truly "rare" die varies in the Classic head series (Nothing rarer than R-3+. Yours was a S-287, the more common of the two 1811's at R-2.). Having said that I should point out thou that the 1809 is considered to be the fourth toughest DATE in the large cent series, and the 1811 and 1813 are both considered to be semi-keys. So it isn't a rare variety, but it is a better date. As such the price was possibly just a little on the low side, but not by much considering the corrosion. If it had been an 08, 10, 12, or 14 then I would say it was a strong but fair price
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Meanwhile back to the question. Yes if that coin looked like that and you purchased it for that price, you did very, very well.
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I think you did good since it was pretty corroded. Even though it was corroded, it had some nice detail to it. Any time someone makes $210 off of $30, I say that's a great deal.
Edited by Amazon99
08/29/2007 6:32 pm
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great price for that quality
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Posted 08/25/2007 6:55 pm
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