Hi Everyone, I have a buddy who's father passed and left him a bunch of coins. He comes by occasionally wanting to sell a few coins from the collection to get some drinking money. He brought this large Cent,a Draped Bust 1/2 cent and a Flowing Hair large cent by. I was stunned. I don't think they could be real? The Mint did not strike any large cents that year. But I have read somewhere that they did secretly produce a few proof Coins that year. It Looks pretty convincing... Anyways I'm sure this is a fake. so I paid him 20.00 for all three coins.
I thought so. I bought a few pillar dollars a couple years back from him and they were fake too...Oh well nice conversation pieces I guess.
A real 1815 cent would easily reach 7 figures. The 1793 would be well over 250k in that shape and that 1808 would be a new die marriage worth 250k+ as the rare 1808 C-1 sells for 100k with like 5 known. So you would be looking at a nice payday.....if not for them all being very bad fakes.
There aren't any. You are saying if there was a unique error coin? Did they make 1815 dies and then not use them? Because then there could be test pieces somewhere.
Coming off of the War of 1812, there were few coins minted in 1815 http://www.numismaster.com/ta/numis/Article.jsp?ArticleId=27655
Could be? Sure but there are no known 1815 cents and if one came up it would be the only one to complete a set and would easily coast by 1 million dollars in value.
I think coins were struck in 1815, but not dated 1815. Just like the 1804 dollar. When they were going through the mint records to find out when the last time the U.S. struck a $1 silver dollar, the record said 1804. So they made some 1804 dollars. Problem was that the dies that were used in 1804 were dated 1801, 1802 & 1803.
