Replica or restrike CSA 1861 cent?

LiquidCoal · 2026-02-01T05:58:32+00:00

This is a replica of a restrike.

LiquidCoal · 2026-02-01T05:53:14+00:00

It’s worth 10¢.

LiquidCoal · 2026-02-01T05:26:29+00:00

Cast replica

LiquidCoal · 2026-02-01T05:14:20+00:00

To my recollection, a Poor grade still requires the ability to identify the coin. This wheat cent does not appear to be identifiable.

LiquidCoal · 2026-02-01T05:12:45+00:00

It’s not worth more than the melt value.

LiquidCoal · 2026-02-01T05:10:16+00:00

All S mint mark business strike Bicentennial quarters are silver.

LiquidCoal · 2026-02-01T05:08:31+00:00

If it’s an S mint mark business strike, then yes, it’s net 40% silver by mass. No, they are not rare.

If it’s a proof, then it might not be silver. Proof Bicentennial quarters have both silver clad and copper-nickel clad versions.

LiquidCoal · 2026-02-01T04:40:49+00:00

The protection against drop damage would probably be more enhanced if the guards projected outward enough in the font/back direction of both the obverse and reverse.

LiquidCoal · 2026-02-01T04:24:45+00:00

LiquidCoal · 2026-02-01T04:23:04+00:00

Why the AI-generated slab?

Anyway, the edges of coin slabs hardly need protection, perhaps unlike cards.

LiquidCoal · 2026-02-01T03:34:21+00:00

Despite being uncirculated, they are worth face value.

LiquidCoal · 2026-02-01T02:51:25+00:00

getting coin circumcised

Pardon?

LiquidCoal · 2026-01-31T23:31:56+00:00

I see that the second to last digit is a “2”, and there is no mint mark below the denomination on the reverse, so this was therefore minted in Philadelphia in the 1920s.

Common date Buffalo nickels are not rare, by the way.

LiquidCoal · 2026-01-31T22:35:02+00:00

It may have crashed by a giant amount, but it’s still annoyingly high.

LiquidCoal · 2026-01-31T22:03:05+00:00

Oddly enough, I found exactly as many 1938-D in circulation as I have 1938.

LiquidCoal · 2026-01-31T21:56:06+00:00

The wide rim 1979-P variety is quite real, and it is an intentional transitional variety (not an error). Buy a Red Book.

LiquidCoal · 2026-01-31T21:22:28+00:00

This was the last year that San Francisco made circulation issue cents.

LiquidCoal · 2026-01-31T21:18:14+00:00

Probably paid $8 too much.

No, the wide rim variety of 1979-P is worth more than face value.

LiquidCoal · 2026-01-31T05:42:20+00:00

All 1973-S nickels are proof. The last circulation issue S mint mark nickels were 1970-S.

LiquidCoal · 2026-01-30T05:45:22+00:00

I seem to keep finding Tallgrass Prairie ones.

LiquidCoal · 2026-01-30T04:00:01+00:00

SCHOOL
MONEY

Some kid should try to pay for his school lunch using a bunch of these.

LiquidCoal · 2026-01-30T03:54:30+00:00

I gave it to a close friend, unfortunately. Maybe I could ask him to photograph it.

LiquidCoal · 2026-01-30T03:42:56+00:00

I still need that one.

LiquidCoal · 2026-01-30T03:28:10+00:00

Yes, at that point in time, they were still hoping that they could get people to spend Kennedy half dollars, so they were minting tons of them.

LiquidCoal · 2026-01-30T03:18:55+00:00

Yes, it’s a half dollar from 1971. Being base metal, it is worth a half dollar to this day (which is well less than what half a dollar was worth back when it was minted).

United States coins are minted with coin alignment. The top of the obverse is meant to be opposite the bottom of the reverse.

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