Hi all, up for auction is an 1837 US Large Cent. There is a pic in my albums.

Starting bid: $18.00
Bid increments: .50
Auction end: Feb. 15/06, 3:00pm BC Canada time.
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Thanks

I'm in. $18.00


Folks take a good look at this Large Cent. It's very nice. Great type set addition or just for that budding Large Cent collector. HEY! Wait a minute that's me.......

How do we see the photo?, wheres his "Album"?.

Click on "Gallery" at the top of the site.

Im off to check it out myself.

-Bobby

Indeed a very nice Large cent... I already have this date though.. Good luck to the bidders!

-Bobby

Here are the pics.

Reverse pics.

1837 What a great year.

(from Wikipedia)
March 4 - Martin Van Buren succeeds Andrew Jackson as the President of the United States of America.
June 20 - Queen Victoria, monarch of the United Kingdom ascends to the throne
Louis Daguerre develops Daguerreotype
Samuel Morse patents telegraph

Just think. Martin Van Buren may have carried this coin in his pocket to his innaguration.

Here are a bunch of folks who were born in 1837:

January 2 - Mily Balakirev, Russian composer (d. 1910)
February 5 - Dwight L. Moody, American evangelist (d. 1899)
March 1 - William Dean Howells, American writer, historian, editor, and politician. (d. 1920)
March 7 - Henry Draper, American physician and astronomer (d. 1882)
March 18 - Grover Cleveland, President of the United States (d. 1908)
March 23 - Charles Wyndham, English actor and theatrical manager (d. 1919)
April 5 - Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet (d. 1909)
April 17 - John Pierpont Morgan, American financier and banker (d. 1913)
April 21 - Fredrik Bajer, Danish politician and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1922)
May 9 - Adam Opel, German engineer and industrialist (d. 1895)
May 27 - Wild Bill Hickok, American gunfighter (d. 1876)
May 28 - George Ashlin, Irish Architect (d. 1921)
June 22 - Paul Morphy, American chess player (d. 1884)
June 22 - Paul Bachmann, German mathematician (d. 1920)
July 4 - Carolus-Duran, French painter (d. 1917)
July 18 - Vasil Levski, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1873)
August 24 - Théodore Dubois, French composer (d. 1924)
November 14 - Lucas Barrett, English naturalist (d. 1862)
November 23 - Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1923)
December 26 - George Dewey, U.S. naval officer (d. 1917)
Sarah Lockwood Pardee, American builder of the Winchester Mystery House (d. 1922)


Can you imagine this cent could have been given to Wild Bill Hickock on the occasion of his birth. He could have saved it all his life and had it in his pocket on the fateful day in 1876 when he went to meet his maker.

I can't let this go for a pultry 18 large.


$19.00

Ummm.... Art... did you realize you are bidding against yourself?

Like, sure! That's not against the rules, is it? It's the hunt that matters.

1837, the first year of the WWW? $20

Was that the year of the very first Smackdown?

Gee Ray, this could have gone with the other lot!

Good rule of thumb at auctions, daggit--never keep a buyer from running up the bid on items you are selling!

Congrats to Ray. You've got a really nice Large Cent for your collection.

Nice sale Daggit.