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1905 Indian Penny, value?

buschmasterbuschmaster Member Posts: 14,229 ✭✭✭
edited May 2006 in General Discussion
I found this and cleaned it up with some brasso. I'm not good at grading to figure out the value. anybody got an idea?

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  • n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427 ✭
    edited November -1
    Not sure of the value but since you cleaned it you cut it in half from what it was. All coins should be left alone and not cleaned.
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  • 7.62x397.62x39 Member Posts: 1,994 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    one cent
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  • JamesRKJamesRK Member Posts: 25,670 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I hate to tell you, but *_r_done is right. I cleaned a coin one time and the dealer I sold it to told me I changed it from priceless to valueless. Here is a link to what they are selling for on eBay.

    http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?from=R40&satitle=1905+Indian+Head
    The road to hell is paved with COMPROMISE.
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  • One shotOne shot Member Posts: 1,027 ✭
    edited November -1
    Might as well drill a hole in it and use it as a charm on a necklace. Cleaning it just shot the hell out of the value.
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  • JamesRKJamesRK Member Posts: 25,670 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Worthless is a bid of an exaggeration. By cleaning it, you knocked off some of the value, but it's not worthless. Just guessing, but I expect you can probably get a dollar for it, maybe more.
    The road to hell is paved with COMPROMISE.
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  • select-fireselect-fire Member Posts: 69,491 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Giveaway Time !![8D]
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  • dheffleydheffley Member Posts: 25,000 ✭
    edited November -1
    Just let it tarnish again (and it will) and don't worry too much!
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  • scottm21166scottm21166 Member Posts: 20,723
    edited November -1
    just get it dirty again...then it will be worth a buck and a quarter....dont you wish you had a million of them?
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  • jhimcojhimco Member Posts: 2,075 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Oops! They aren't worth much anyway.[V]
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  • hughbetchahughbetcha Member Posts: 7,801 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Indian penny? It looks like the staue of Liberty to me[:p]Dont you mean Native American Penny?? I remember when i was a kid i would occasionally come across Buffalo nickles, but the indian pennies where long gone by then.
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  • boeboeboeboe Member Posts: 3,331
    edited November -1
    twentyfive to fourty cents. Swallow it so the "natural patina" will set back in, filter your droppings, and it will be worth seventyfive cents to one dollar.
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  • boeboeboeboe Member Posts: 3,331
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by hughbetcha
    Indian penny? It looks like the staue of Liberty to me[:p]Dont you mean Native American Penny?? I remember when i was a kid i would occasionally come across Buffalo nickles, but the indian pennies where long gone by then.


    Technically, it is Lady Liberty in a native American headdress.
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  • n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427 ✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by boeboe
    twentyfive to fourty cents. Swallow it so the "natural patina" will set back in, filter your droppings, and it will be worth seventyfive cents to one dollar.




    I'd have to be pretty broke to sift through crap for a penny[xx(]
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  • boeboeboeboe Member Posts: 3,331
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by *_r_done
    quote:Originally posted by boeboe
    twentyfive to fourty cents. Swallow it so the "natural patina" will set back in, filter your droppings, and it will be worth seventyfive cents to one dollar.




    I'd have to be pretty broke to sift through crap for a penny[xx(]


    My daughter, at the time less than one year old, swallowed a dime. The wife took her to the doctor, who advised we needed to monitor her emmissions. I was the lucky guy, yes, I sifted through crap for a dime. It did turn an iteresting black in color.

    Stupid doctors.
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