Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 272, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1910 — COINS BRING FANCY PRICES [ARTICLE]

COINS BRING FANCY PRICES

■At a Recent Record-Breaking Sale In New York American Half-Eagle Brought $265. New York.—At a recent sale of coins in this city the amount realized was $20,754. This was a recordbreaker. The largest amount at such a sale before this time was $19,000, at the Parmelee sale in 1892. Two American half eagles dated 1797 were sold for $250 and $265. An 1819 half eagle brought SIBO and one of 1821 brought $l9O. The highest priced coin was an 1829 half eagle, which sold for $370. The prices for quarter eagles were $260 for a 1796 with stars on it; 1797 for $150; 1798, SSO; 1821, S4O; 1824, S4O; 1827, $43. An 1843 quarter eagle without a motto was sold for SBIO. A confederate cent was sold for S3O, while a New York continental cent with bust of Washington on it brought $265. The prices for old and rare coins are given below: Dollar (the rarest of all is that of —1804), price S4OO to SSOO, according to condition. Half dollar, that of 1796, with sixteen stars, price S2O to $27, although that of 1796, with only fifteen stars, and that of 1797, each, command nearly the same premium, S2O to $25. Quarter dollars of 1823 and 1827, each quoted at sls to $25. A dime of . 1804 is quoted at $4 to $6. A half dime of 1802 is worth $25 to S4O. A half cent of 1796 brings $5 to SB. The rarest of the cents is that of 1799, and is worth from $4 up. The 1804 cent is rare. Three to five dollars is the usual price for it. Collectors pay $1.50 to $2 for an 1856 nickel cent with the flying eagle on it. Half cents—l 796, the rarest of all, ($5 to $8; 1793, rare, $1.75 tp $2.50; ;1852, $2.50 to $3.50; those/for-1831, 1836, and from 1840 to 1849,’inclusive, •bring from $2.50 to $3.50. The 2 cent piece of 1873 is worth from 50 to 75 cents. As stated before, the half cent of J7M is extremely scarce and valuable.

The number of this coin issued amounted to 904,585, but their scarcity is attributed to a shipment to the coast of Africa by a Salem (Mass.) firm of several hundred thousand on an order from that country, where, being punched with holes, they were bartered away to the negroes, who put them on strings and used them as neck ornaments.