Junk bin find, I thought it might have been an ancient until I looked closer! Although I am not sure if it's a draped bust or older style, it's pretty corroded, but still, for $0.25, I am NOT complaining!

AG-1 I would have bought 10 of them

Wow, nice!

Looks like cleaning gone bad. Dont dip you coins. Great buy

geeze something ate that poor coin

i cant c anything only holes some1 butcherd this coin

I know the photos kinda suck, but it's a US half cent, appears to be a draped bust, but possibly an older variety, hard to tell.

Also, it was a 0.25 bin find, and I didn't clean it, although at the stage it's in, I may hit it with some jewelers steel wool and try and force more detail out. It's the same method with old junk colonial half pennies to let you actually see the detail under all that corrosion and grime. Normally though I would tell anyone, just as Dprice, to NEVER clean a coin, it will completely devalue it. This coin on the otherhand is already essentially worthless, so I have no problems doing so. Lol.

too bad people dont know better i thnk there should be a law no cleaning coins!!!!

dustin

cleaning coins shall be punishable by death by throwing the person who cleaned the coin in hot lava an then diped in sulphuric acid until thier face is bearly reconisable by the Coin Collecters Law Enforcement (aka C.C.L.E ) beware

haha im with ya!!

Good find. I'd have purchased it.

I can't ID it perfectly either but it's still a darn nice find for a quarter!