Good price for a BU 1860 Farthing w/Lustre?

[Guest Jennings_I'm_a_Guest]

Can someone give me a ball park figure for what such a coin should go for? There's one on eBay that I'd love to buy, but it seems to be going higher than I think it ought to. I've got a copy of the newest edition of Seaby coming in the mail, but it's not here yet.

Many thanks!

JH

[Master Jmd]

Well, i would pay anything up to £50 for a BU example of beaded border...

And, i would pay anything up to £80 for a BU example of a toothed with 5 berries (however, if i had the cash i would probably buy something less expencive )

And, i would pay anythin up to £50 for a bU example of a toothed with 4 berries

Edited September 29, 2004 by Master Jmd

[Sylvester]

These copper collectors are everywhere!

I guess i'd better buy more gold to counter-balance... yeah that's right counter-balance... ha!*

* = Any excuse, i've been looking for one!

Oh and welcome!

[Jennings]

Thanks everybody. I'm relatively new in British coins (being a Yank and all), so I appreciate the thoughts. Collecting American coins has become, like so much else in America, 'supersized' and nigh impossible for we mere mortals. Unless you're satisfied to collect poor to Fine (at best) circulated coins, collecting anything in higher grades is just no fun, given the explosion of "slabbing" of everything.

I started collecting Washington quarters (which started in 1932, the year my dad was born) before the current craze for them started, and suddenly I can't even begin to afford them any more. So I decided to try something a little less stressful, less expensive, and more fun - Farthings. I've always been an Anglophile at heart (I met my now ex-wife while we were both on holiday in the UK), so it seemed a natural.

I love the fact that I have yet to see a single 'certified' Farthing!

Best regards,

Jennings

[Half Penny Jon]

These copper collectors are everywhere! 

Bornze!!!!!!!!!!!!! I don't collect copper (yet), and JMD is just getting into copper.

Edited September 29, 2004 by Half Penny Jon

[Emperor Oli]

Bornze eh. I think Sylvester meant bronze too, as one of its majour constituents is copper...plus it looks like copper too.

[Sylvester]

Bronze/copper it's all the same to me... verdigris fodder.

I think you'll find that bronze is pretty much copper anyway with a mere smidging of other metals to harden it.

I mean if we want to get fussy you could argue that .500 silver coins are not silver. And that 9kt gold jewelry is not infact gold but copper with a dash of gold to colour it.

[Half Penny Jon]

verdigris fodder.

If any of the coins in my halfpenny collection gets verdigris......I will convert to silver, promise!

[Master Jmd]

Bornze!!!!!!!!!!!!! I don't collect copper (yet), and JMD is just getting into copper.

I would class myself as a copper collector...bronze, as sylvester said, pretty much is copper