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About Dan Moore
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My strong familiarity with all U.S. Mint coins, extensive reference library, and close relationships with many other dealers allows me to identify just about any coin made in the USA. I receive regular updates to all the current price guides -- both wholesale & retail -- to provide accurate values. So, with a good description or pictures, I should be able to identify and value any U.S. coin you have.

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I've been a coin dealer since the 1980's and a coin collector since the 1960's. I specialize in U.S. Silver Coins and have an active online website -- The Working Man's Rare Coins -- http://www.workingmancoins.com -- offering information and inventory in U.S. coins.

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Coin Collecting - 1837 Large Cent with misprint


Expert: Dan Moore - 9/30/2009

Question
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.

Answer
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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