1877 Indian Head Penny - Any Input?

@JJS2, first welcome to CCF. Second, below is a link to the NGC website, which could provide some ballpark values for this coin, assuming it real. For a reasonably high ticket item like this, your friend might consider getting the coin slabbed.

https://www.NGCcoin.com/coin-explor...coinid-12127

Others here will be able to provide a grade range for this coin, but also including a pic of the rev of this coin would definitely help them.

Need better photos, remove it from the album and shoot both sides large enough for us to evaluate condition and authenticity.

cant give opinions without both sides. take photos in natural light and as close as possible but keep a sharp focus. crop using the optimizer on this site. if this coin is MS its a $4000 plus coin. even a high AU coin is in the $3500 range. I agree it should be slabbed for resale.

Remove the coin from the album carefully and take pictures of both sides, please.

to the CCF!

The 1877 looks ok to me but it is improperly cleaned which knocks down the value. I still wouldn't trust that one raw though

I do know that as long as they were in my father's possession, they were never cleaned, or even touched, as they have been stored in a museum quality intercept Shield for decades, I believe. He knows not to clean rare coins, and he said when he acquired it, it was said to be AU+ by other collectors from his club at the time, and no mention of cleaning. It's hard to see the color and luster in these photos, I might try to get a video of them in varying lighting.

Looks to have been cleaned. AU-53 details. I really like the 1909-S Looks to be MS-63. If the other coins look to be as nice as these, the complete set would be quite valuable.

It's all my father's.. but it's being listed on a friend's Etsy store. My dad has pieced it all together over the last several decades, but financial situations dictate that he needs to sell it. He is adamant that he wants to keep the collection together as a set, but other people are saying it would be worth more split up. A local dealer was going to give him $7,000 for the whole set, or $1,000 for the 1877, although it seems that he was underestimating the conditions and values, and factoring in a large markup for himself.. but a couple of other local collectors looked at it in person and said there's no way he should sell it for any less than double that, minimum. They also said they have never seen any in this good of condition before. He had some offers for various coins in the set, but like I said, he keeps insisting that the set stays together if at all possible. A couple people seem interested in paying 12 to $14,000 for the set, as of now, that have contacted us through Etsy. I'm going to work on getting some more decent images of all of the coins in close up, And possibly some video as well, tonight.