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I purchased a 1837 Large Cent from an antique shop in Ridgeway, CO and noticed that on the back it says "One Cunt" rather than "One Cent". I was wondering what it would be worth. I read the answers to others questions about misprints and they said something about joke coins. I have compared mine to pictures and everything looks exactly the same except of course the misspelling of Cent.
Chrystal,
For whatever reason this is a popular alteration of that coin -- it happened after the coin left the mint. Juvenile people with too much time on their hands manually altered your coin to change the word CENT into CUNT. I have seen a few examples of this in varying degrees of crudeness.
Considered altered or damaged, it has no collector value -- perhaps a couple dollars for novelty value.
Dan
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Dan Moore
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