This Department is conducted in the interest of stamp and coin collectors, and the Editor will be pleased to answer any question on these subjects so far as possible. Correspondents should address Editor Stamp Department.
In the Round Table, December 17, 1895, I gave a list of prices asked by dealers for all United States coins of the following denominations: Half-cent, large cent, small cent, two cents, three cents (nickel), five cents (nickel), three cents (silver), five cents (silver), dimes, and twenty-cent pieces. The list is completed in this Number, and I hope readers of the Round Table will keep the list, as it will save many questions. The prices quoted are asked for fair copies of the older dates, and nearly perfect copies of the later dates. The later coins can usually be found in general circulation at face.
Quarter-Dollars.—1796, $2.50; 1804, $2.50; 1805, 1806, 1807, 50c. each; 1815, $1; 1818 to 1822, 75c. each; 1823, $75; 1824, $2; 1825, $1.50; 1827, $50; 1828, 75c.; 1831 to 1851, 50c. each; 1852, 75c.; 1853 (without rays), $10; 1853 (rays on rev.), 35c.; 1854 to 1862, 50c. each; 1863, 1864, 1865, $1 each; 1866, $10; 1866 (in God We Trust), $1; 1867, $1; 1868, $1; 1869, 75c.; 1870 to 1893 (Liberty), 50c. each; 1893 (Isabella), $2; 1894, 50c.; 1895, 50c.
Half-Dollars.—1794, $4; 1795, $1.25; 1795 (three leaves), $4; 1796, $75; 1797, $75; 1801, $3; 1802, $4; 1803, $1; 1805, $1; 1805 (over 1804), $2; 1806 to 1814, 75c. each; 1815, $4; 1817 to 1836, 75c. each; 1836 (milled edge), $4; new style, $2; 1837 to 1850, 75c. each; 1851, $1; 1852, $2.50; 1853 to 1861, 75c. each; 1861 (Confed. rev. restrike), $5; 1862 to 1865, $1 each; 1866, $1.50; 1866 (in God We Trust), $1.25; 1867, $1.25; 1868, 1869, $1 each; 1870, 1871, 1872, 75c. each; 1873 (no darts), $1.50; 1873 (with darts), 75c.; 1874 to 1878, 75c. each; 1879 to 1891, $1 each; 1892 to 1895, 75c. each. Columbian.—1892 (Columbus), 75c.; 1893, 75c.
Dollars.—1794, $100; 1795 (flowing hair), $3; 1795 (fillet head), $3.50; 1796, $4; 1797, $4; 1798 (13 stars, small eagle), $5; 1798 (15 stars, small eagle), $6; 1798 (13 stars, spread eagle), $2.50; 1799 (5-star facing), $4; 1799 (6-star facing), $2; 1799 (over 1798), $3; 1800, $2; 1801, $3.50; 1802 (over 1801),$2.75; 1802, $3; 1803, $3.50; 1803 (italic 3), $4; 1804, $500; 1836, $10; 1838, $50; 1839, $60; 1840 to 1850, $2 each; 1851, $50; 1852, $75; 1853, $2.50; 1854, $5; 1855, $3; 1856, $2.50; 1857, $2.75; 1858, $50; 1859 to 1869, $2.50 each; 1870, 1871, 1872, $2; 1873, $2.50; 1878 to 1894, $1.50 each. Trade dollars.—1873, $2; 1874 to 1883, $1.50 each.
Gold Coin.—Dollars, $1.50 to $10; quarter-eagles, $3 to $10; three-dollar pieces, $3.50 to $5; half-eagles, 1795 to 1828, from $8 up, except 1815, $500, and 1824, $150; eagles, 1795 to 1804, from $12 up; later dates at a small advance over face; double eagle, 1849, $500.
W. Sanders.—The 1838 cent is worth 5 cents. The 1839 cent, stamped over the date 1836, is worth $6.
F. H. Harris.—The U. S. revenues mentioned are worth from 1 cent to 5 cents each if perforated; if unperforated, they are worth from 5 cents to $1 each. The U. S. 12 cent 1861 is worth 25 cents.
Mary Fithian.—For value of dollars see above.
