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Really? I know there is wear on them but I didn't think there was enough to call them scrap coins? If pulled from change in the 1960s, they would all be roughly in that condition, and would have been described then as "average circulated". Sorry. Ah well, they were a gift and fill the gaps in a very small collection. I was quite excited about them, a little less now :/ Awww. Well, if it's any consolation at all, we've all been there. All of us. No exceptions. I remember when I got my first UNC George V coin, I was so so pleased with it (still am, still got it ). So I make the toast to you that all coin collectors are happy to hear : a long life and happy collecting.

Its a question of completing a collection ...any serious collector of bronze pennies knows that there are only a very limited number of R18+ pennies available to them and in the case of the 1877 narrow date they might only get an opportunity once or twice to buy one....and none of them are in high grade.