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1979 Penny - #1 - Is It Worth Getting Graded?

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My brother does Home teardowns and rebuilds. Found a bunch of coins in attic behind a wall. To be exact 7 mason jars. Just started to go through them and found this. Looking for opinions as these have not been cleaned as far as I know. What do you guys think? I tried to do angles to get the best shot of the front and back of coin. Let me know is the pics need to be better.






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I'm not good at grading coins but while a very nice example I see water spots and a couple of stains. An acetone bath may solve that. For it to be worthwhile to be graded, it really needs to grade 67 or better and many business strikes don't make that. So I would say no its not worth it.
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 Posted 11/19/2024  7:56 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add cointagous to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Coin is original but has some minor spotting and would not be worth grading. Enjoy it as it is.
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 Posted 11/19/2024  8:02 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Littlemg2 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
awesome thank you. I will keep looking
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 Posted 11/19/2024  8:09 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add smauggie to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
MS65 at best. Not worth grading.
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 Posted 11/19/2024  8:16 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Coinfrog to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Save your money.
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 Posted 11/19/2024  9:01 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Errers and Varietys to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Not worth grading, but still a very nice looking cent.
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Way too much spotting. The fields look like they have a lot of problems. How did you get the pictures so "enhanced" ? I'm sure that is not how the cent looks in hand.
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 Posted 11/20/2024  06:52 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Dearborn to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
very nice looking cent, but yes, if you sent it in, it would most likely come back as a 'Details' coin.
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 Posted 11/20/2024  09:38 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Littlemg2 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
well marve65 that's exactly how the coin looks in hand. My pictures are from the Tomlov pro 602. That why I uploaded the coin as it was something I've have not ran across before.
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Nice cent but save your money, not worth the expense of grading.
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question do you guys want me to take a pic of all 50 of the remaining 1979 coins as this again is something that's blowing my mind. I mean they wont be zoomed in as much as ill use my iPhone but you can get an idea of the details and shininess. Again I am not looking to sell any nor make a million but to have a coin that 67+ is a goal to add to my collection. Again this is just the year 79 as I have more like this from 1959 to 1989
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 Posted 11/20/2024  10:07 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jbuck to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
That is a good looking cent!

Grading will eat into any profit. The coin sells itself, no need for getting a TPG involved.
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yea I am not going to have graded but for someone to say close to a MS 65 well that's my first so super happy!! I get all by guess but still placing in my binder
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question do you guys want me to take a pic of all 50 of the remaining 1979 coins as this again is something that's blowing my mind
If it were me, I would sort them out. Find the best of the best ones and share them individually. Perhaps one it worth the time sending in.

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Again I am not looking to sell any nor make a million but to have a coin that 67+ is a goal to add to my collection.
That is a worthy goal, so ignore my previous comment about profit.

However, I would still want you to just focus in sorting the best examples from the rest, then we can help you assess their potential.


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Again this is just the year 79 as I have more like this from 1959 to 1989


Same process. Sort out the best ones for review.
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yea I am not going to have graded but for someone to say close to a MS 65 well that's my first so super happy!! I get all by guess but still placing in my binder
This is a great find! I anticipate they are all going to be worth keeping and protecting. Enjoy the sorting!
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