New coin

[Tradedollarnut]

Any comments?

 

1855 large cent

[GP_]

WOWZA!!!! now thats a looker! (oh, and your link is borked, has an extra http:// in it)

[Tradedollarnut]

Link is fixed!

[mark]

Think what that coin has been through--almost 150 years old--and it still has virtually all its mint red. Coins like that strike me as amazing, and amazingly beautiful!

 

Mark

[Oldtrader3]

Simply amazing, to see copper (bronze) that old in full red is truly outstanding! This coin should fit in your USA Type Set very well.

[Hoot]

Yikes! I can hardly believe that copper can survive like that! Exquisite. Must have been hidden away in amazingly good conditions for preservation. Think of it: it survived the Civil War like that! All the time and travails! Generations!

 

I'm worried that the air in eastern Washington is no good. Please send to me TDN, high in the Rockies - hell I'll drive to your house and pick it up!

 

Hoot

[LucyBop]

What an awesome addition to your collection, it looks fresh from the mint......

[Android]

Unreal!

 

At first glance, I thought it was gold!

 

Nice buy TDN!

 

Andy

[shirohniichan]

That's amazing!

 

Is it possible that someone has learned how to "curate" copper and bring back the red?

[Tradedollarnut]

Yes, someone has. I recently saw a PCGS MS66 that I was certain had been stripped and enhanced. I've been told that a certain doctor can get his coins thru there quite easily.

 

But this is one of the hoard coins found with original surfaces. This coin was graded at least 10 years ago and still looks fresh, so it's certainly original.

[shirohniichan]

Amazing.

 

While it's a nice coin, did you realize you could get 2 1983 quarters in MS-67 for that price?

[swhuck]

[Hoot]

did you realize you could get 2 1983 quarters in MS-67 for that price?

 

Exactly why one would buy the cent instead!

 

Hoot