1857 O Half Dime From My Newly Found LCS

The Half Dime is a details coin with damage on both sides. The Monroe half dollar has been harshly cleaned.
I think you paid too much for the Half Dime. The half dollar is worth silver.

The scratches don't show in hand on the coin. I can't photograph as well af I'd like. The scratches being what they are what would yal have paid for it?

I work at an LCS. My opinion is you got ripped.

Don't go back to that place for coins.

For $43, you were ripped off.

Oh well we all learn by our mistakes , You'll get there .

that's a sweet old Half Dime, but I join with the consensus in that the price is too high on both coins due to damage.

keep them where you can see them every day. those are lessons you have there, let them always remind you (until you think you have learned the lesson, at least). trial & error. I think most of us walk that path at least once.

..but, as you say: onward. if you stumble or fall, try to fall forward!

Personally I try to avoid damaged coins if possible unless it is rare and otherwise unaffordable on my coin budget. The damage can't be severe and the coin needs to have otherwise excellent eye appeal. If the coin meets the above criteria I want it for a deal, no more than 25% of what a undamaged coin would retail.

I would be careful of this dealer in the future. There are many that charge full retail for coins that should have been discounted for defects. Some dealers have entire stores of such coins that look good on first glance but always have something wrong with them. I am really lucky that I've found a coin dealer at a local coin show that treats me really well and doesn't sell junk and for this I give him a big chunk of my coin budget every month.