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They have their good points. Here's the thing: auction houses, I believe, tend to gravitate toward higher value collections. Grading will cost you around $30 per coin when done in bulk, which means that unless the grading has potential to tack on that much extra value, all it does is make the coins easier to sell (most of the time). Depending on what you have, you may find that auction houses are not terribly interested.
If you have a local coin club, you might start there (at least, if you would if clubs were meeting...not sure what most do now, ours is having zoom meetings that don't interest me). What you really need is a seasoned numismatist to look over what you have and advise you on value. If you can't find one willing to do it just to be helpful (and perhaps for the possibility of buying it), another step would be to take it to a respected local dealer. Some will charge an appraisal fee if you end up deciding not to sell. I think the norm is for them to pay you 50-60% of what they expect to realize for it. An actual collector will tend to offer you more, but until someone looks at it and gives you some sort of qualified figure, you're not in a good position to know what order of value magnitude you've got. That I think is the toughest issue facing someone in your situation. Are we talking closer to $100, $1000, $10K, or $100K? You need to assess that--either develop the knowledge yourself, or obtain its benefits from someone who has it.
What is very important to understand is that nearly any alteration of a coin makes it less desirable and thus decreases its value. Polishing and cleaning tend to stand out like neon signs, and any collector with much knowledge will be able to spot these alterations in a hurry. As a general rule, there's a way the coin is supposed to look for its age and level of wear. If it is cleaned, it tends to be the wrong color, as in a worn-flat Mercury dime that shines with a brilliant blast white color. You must also, and I hate to say it because I know such matters are sensitive, be prepared for the possibility that Grandfather was not quite the brilliant numismatist he might have appeared to be. Let's put it this way: rarely have I seen the inheritor be pleasantly surprised.

They have their good points. Here's the thing: auction houses, I believe, tend to gravitate toward higher value collections. Grading will cost you around $30 per coin when done in bulk, which means that unless the grading has potential to tack on that much extra value, all it does is make the coins easier to sell (most of the time). Depending on what you have, you may find that auction houses are not terribly interested.
If you have a local coin club, you might start there (at least, if you would if clubs were meeting...not sure what most do now, ours is having zoom meetings that don't interest me). What you really need is a seasoned numismatist to look over what you have and advise you on value. If you can't find one willing to do it just to be helpful (and perhaps for the possibility of buying it), another step would be to take it to a respected local dealer. Some will charge an appraisal fee if you end up deciding not to sell. I think the norm is for them to pay you 50-60% of what they expect to realize for it. An actual collector will tend to offer you more, but until someone looks at it and gives you some sort of qualified figure, you're not in a good position to know what order of value magnitude you've got. That I think is the toughest issue facing someone in your situation. Are we talking closer to $100, $1000, $10K, or $100K? You need to assess that--either develop the knowledge yourself, or obtain its benefits from someone who has it.
What is very important to understand is that nearly any alteration of a coin makes it less desirable and thus decreases its value. Polishing and cleaning tend to stand out like neon signs, and any collector with much knowledge will be able to spot these alterations in a hurry. As a general rule, there's a way the coin is supposed to look for its age and level of wear. If it is cleaned, it tends to be the wrong color, as in a worn-flat Mercury dime that shines with a brilliant blast white color. You must also, and I hate to say it because I know such matters are sensitive, be prepared for the possibility that Grandfather was not quite the brilliant numismatist he might have appeared to be. Let's put it this way: rarely have I seen the inheritor be pleasantly surprised.

Thanks for the link.
Wait, I thought this research was all included in the US modern tier grading fee, $11 the last time I checked.  You mean it isn't?

I do NOT THINK you are going to get ANY ANSWERS because this WHOLE THING HAS become a *spoon*SHOW. He DOES NOT REALLY BELIEVE his coin is a valuable RARITY BECAUSE if he did, HE WOULD ALREADY have sent it in for grading RATHER THAN KEEP TROLLING all of you.

I do NOT THINK you are going to get ANY ANSWERS because this WHOLE THING HAS become a *spoon*SHOW. He DOES NOT REALLY BELIEVE his coin is a valuable RARITY BECAUSE if he did, HE WOULD ALREADY have sent it in for grading RATHER THAN KEEP TROLLING all of you.

I do NOT THINK you are going to get ANY ANSWERS because this WHOLE THING HAS become a *spoon*SHOW. He DOES NOT REALLY BELIEVE his coin is a valuable RARITY BECAUSE if he did, HE WOULD ALREADY have sent it in for grading RATHER THAN KEEP TROLLING all of you.

Talk is cheap. If the OP doesn't take appropriate action (Authentication) with his coin - it is worth a dime and all the talk is meaningless. If he is able to sell the coin - it is worth what the buyer pays for it to the buyer - not anyone else. I hear a lot of talking and no action which tells me the OP knows it's not what he is stating that it is and just wants to talk about it. 

OP won't even take the time to send it in, nor do I think he ever will.  I'm sure he (or she, for that matter) is quite amused at the lot of us banging our heads against the wall refuting each of his ridiculous claims.  

To the coin God VKurtB who calls other people post  pernicious garbage ... I think that it's about time for you to take a nap or get your diaper changed or find something more productive to do with your special time at the old folks home . Because you see I for one do not care for things like status or acceptance which is why I still stand firm on the coin I've discovered with the unique Finish dispite your magical wave of the hand or any coin company that may dismiss it without conducting ALL the appropriate test to rule out what it actually is ....  And more importantly let us all never forget about the guy who was told BY NUMEROUS COIN EXPERTS how the coin he possessed was nothing when in reality it was actually a rare coin kind worth millions . Because to me I believe that alot of THE KNOW IT ALLS HERE COULD STAND TO LEARN A THING OR TWO FROM WHAT HE PROVED TO THEM ...  

That's one reason I stopped providing any information, that and the desire not to encourage more threads that go nowhere.

Come on, it's not any "cleaning", it's the crappy counterfeit dies.

Not an evasion piece, contemporary counterfeit.  Don't know if it is British or American origin but I would guess British.  Can't match it to any of the documented families in my reference.  Highly unlikely it is a blacksmith token they are much cruder than this coin.  I only have two family listing that include 1776 counterfeits, the Machens Mills Family and the Georgivs Triumpho Family and this 1776 rev doesn't match either if the 76 reverses  for those families.
There is a chance the date is 1775, the many of the counterfeiters deliberately made the 5 on their dies look very much like a 6. (And the fact that part of the digit is off the planchet doesn't help.)
  That would open up a lot of other possibilities that I don't want to try and go into right now
The evasion refers to evading the anti-counterfeiting laws.  Under the law at the time a coin was only a counterfeit if it was an EXACT copy of a regal coin.  So the Evasion pieces took advantage of the general populations illiteracy and would make similar looking copper coins with mis-spelled legends, nonsense legends, or inscriptions that would look similar to people who couldn't ready such as GEORGE RULES instead of GEORGIUS REX.  There is a rev where instead of BRITT ANIA it says BONNY GIRLS.  Since the coins weren't exact copies they evaded a charge of counterfeiting.

Not sure what it is, but my sources do not show an authentic GB farthing, half penny, or penny for 1776. I wonder what sort of evasion they associate with it; maybe tax evasion, a favorite Continental hobby.

Not sure what it is, but my sources do not show an authentic GB farthing, half penny, or penny for 1776. I wonder what sort of evasion they associate with it; maybe tax evasion, a favorite Continental hobby.

The short answer on cleaning is: "Don't. The people who can safely ignore that advice know who they are."
The longer answer is that it depends, but that you have to absolutely know what the *spoon* you are doing. If it weren't for some form of cleaning, big clods of encrusted ancients would remain big clods. Sometimes there is so much *spoon* on the coin you can't tell what it is. And sometimes there is a corrosive or damaging substance that must be removed; the conventional answer there is "that isn't cleaning; that's conservation." Some of us sarcastic killjoys feel that it's euphemistic in application, but that doesn't change the fact that PVC slime will rot the coin, and simple toning probably won't, and that there is a factual difference.

If you truly believed it was something special, you'd already have sent it in and not cared what anyone here thought. Ergo, you do not. And that's okay, because you are correct. It's a damaged coin. Until you send it in and prove otherwise, it's all just hot air.

Need help with this one

Thanks for the essay

@Quintus Arrius you are of course entitled to your opinion but you seem to be biasing your statement on one data point, this thread alone.  Ratzie is a known troll, he doesn't add any value to this forum, he doesn't add to the collective knowledge of the forum and as such is not an asset to the forum.  It takes more than a single data point to form a good conclusion about any subject or person.  Now I don't expect every poster here to provide knowledge, some are here to learn and that is fine and a part of what this forum is here for.  But when people are here just to troll then credibility is lost.

Might get "Details - Scratched" but they are usually lenient with chairs of this era.

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