How Valuable are Susan B Anthony Dollar Coins? Old Coin Values!

appmex is the proud sponsor of the silver picker youtube channel and whatnot is the proud sponsor of today's video thank you both for your support do you have any of these coins sitting in a drawer somewhere i mean you probably saved at least one or two as a kid right well if you've got one you definitely want to watch the rest of this video because your little tiny susan b anthony dollar could be worth a heck of a lot more than a buck hello everybody silver picker here and in today's video i'm going to be teaching you how to identify which susan b anthony dollars are worth the big bucks and which ones are better off being brought back to the bank but first a little bit about the coin itself the susan b anthony dollar or sva dollar as we call it in the biz replace the large size eisenhower dollar and it depicts the famous suffragette on the obverse and depicts a scene of the moon landing the exact same design as on the eisenhower dollar because susan b anthony had something to do with the apollo missions that choice is as perplexing today as it was back then when it was first made but anyway i digress the susan b anthony dollar was minted between 1979 and 1981 and then again for one year in 1999. what's really remarkable about this coin is it's actually the first time in u.s history that a real woman was depicted on a u.s coin sorry lady liberty but you don't count the government had high hopes for the coin but due to the fact that it was about the same size and color as a quarter people confused them frequently and the public was not happy with this coin eventually however the coins did find a home in postage stamp and subway token vending machines where people would still use them even though they hated the coins because well they wanted to write letters and get places so they would proceed to use these machines receive the susan b anthony dollars as change and then proceed to bring them home giving them to their kids with the advice hold on to these because they'll be worth something someday so is it someday yet and are they worth something well yes and no most sba coins that you have are worth just the one dollar face value that's printed on them and that's the reality however there are two factors that can greatly increase the value of these coins and that is condition and rarity condition is obvious right obviously a pristine mint coin will be worth more than a coin that looks like well this rarity is a bit more nuanced here though because while most coins have what are called key dates or the most valuable rare dates that you can find in the set the susan b anthony series doesn't really have any as there were only four years where the coins were minted instead they have what are called rare varieties varieties are the subtle differences found across a given type of coin that result from the manufacturing process or minting process using different dies to stamp the coins the ones you want to look out for are the 1979 s wide rim variety the 1979 s proof type 2 clear s variety and the 1981 s proof type 2 flat s variety i'll explain how to identify these different varieties and what they're worth in a minute and then at the end of the video i'll show you some more unusual sba varieties that are worth a tremendous amount of money and have sold for huge huge sums at auction but first i want to take a minute to give you an update about my next whatnot auction for those of you don't know whatnot is an incredible online live auction platform in which buyers and sellers can interact in real time and you can buy all sorts of different types of collectibles a few weeks ago i did my first live whatnot auction and i sold off a nice chunk of my personal collection and it was really really cool people got amazing deals and i gave away over 250 worth of free coins currency and other stuff and i'm planning on doing another auction in september final dates to be announced i'm going to be selling numismatic coins i'm going to be selling silver bullion i'm going to be selling gold currency all sorts of cool stuff and i'm going to be giving away another 250 worth of free numismatic prizes it is going to be awesome and you don't want to miss it and while on the subject of free if you want to have 10 dollars in whatnot credit for free use my link to sign up for a free account in the description below that's what not dot com slash invite slash silver picker and not only do you get ten dollars to spend on anything you want on the whatnot platform but i also get ten dollars and that is a win-win so definitely check it out you don't want to miss my next auction so how do you actually identify these three different varieties of susan b anthony dollars well you're most likely to find the 1979 s wide rim in circulation because the other two are proof coins which means they were made specifically for collectors and were never intended for circulation however if granny or gramps ever bought you something like this you still might have one of those 79s proofs or 1981 s proofs sitting in your drawer so let's start off with the two proof coins and then we'll circle back to the 79s wide rim so the 1979 s proof type 2 with the clear s mint mark looks something like this that was certainly a mouthful so i'm going to break down what each part of those terms mean so 1979 of course is the year that the coin was minted and s is the mint mark indicating that it was minted or produced in the san francisco mint proof as we mentioned means that the coin was produced specifically for collectors using highly polished dyes giving the coin a mirror-like finish like this but here's the important part only type 2 coins with what's called the clear s mint mark are worth the big bucks this is a type one with what's called a filled s and this is more of an ordinary coin the one you want to look for is the clear s that looks like this and what does such a coin sell for well this example sold at heritage auctions for 1955. granted it's graded a proof 70 which means it is a perfect pristine coin but that's still a 1955 x return on your investment thanks granny the 1981 s proof type 2 with the flat s is very similar to the previous example but even more rare and in this case instead of a clear estimate mark it has a flat estimate mark that looks like this and if you thought the last one sold for a lot of money this 1981 s proof type 2 with the flat s sold for a whopping 5 500 at auction and even if you don't have one that's in absolute perfect proof 70 condition you'll still be able to sell it for hundreds if not thousands of dollars so those are the two proof coins but let's go back to that one that you might have gotten out of one of those postage stamp machines way back when that's sitting in your coin jar just waiting for you to watch this video and of course if you're enjoying this video i make videos like this all the time so you best hit that big old red subscribe button and while you're down there do me the ultimate youtube solid and smash that like button it takes you just a second and it means the world to me but now the 1979 s wide rim variety now if you thought that the clear s and the flat s varieties were a little bit subtle well you ain't seen nothing yet because the subtlety in this variety depends on how wide or narrow the rim around the coin is i know us coin collectors are an odd bunch most of the 1979 s sba coins were minted with the narrow rim making the wide rim the one to look out for and the easiest way to tell which one's the wide rim versus which one's the narrow rim is to see how close or how far the rim is away from the date on the coin if you look at a narrow rim variety and a wide rim variety side by side you can see that the date almost touches the rim on the wide rim variety and is actually pretty far away from the rim on the narrow rim variety and check it out a mint state 67 plus 1979 s wide rim variety sold at heritage auctions for a whopping 6 500 absolutely wild and this is honestly something you could reasonably expect to find in circulation though of course the condition will dictate whether or not you're getting that top dollar in the thousands or whether it's just a couple hundred bucks but still a couple hundred bucks ain't bad for a one dollar coin now earlier in the video i promised that i would show you a couple of really unusual sba coins that sold for tremendous amounts of money at auction so i'm going to show you two different coins right now that will absolutely blow your mind i mentioned earlier in the video that the sba dollar replaced the eisenhower dollar but what replaced the sba dollar well the sacagawea dollar of course during that transition year between 1999 and 2000 there were a couple of the first sacajawea dollars that were minted on coin blanks from the sba dollars that means that you have the design of a sacagawea dollar minted on that silver colored coin blank from the sba dollar this particular example sold for an absurd 12 075 dollars but it gets even better the opposite has occurred as well in which an sva dollar was minted on a sacagawea planchet and this example sold for an incredible wait for it sixteen thousand one hundred dollars there are of course lots of other susan b anthony error coins out there but that is a topic for a different video now if you are lucky enough to have one of these rare susan b anthony varieties sitting at the bottom of your underwear drawer well what do you do with it well you're already ahead of the curve because you have me as a resource you can send me a description and a picture of your coin to my email address thesilverpicker gmail.com or you can dm me on instagram at the silverpicker and you should probably be following me there anyway and i'll respond to you and if the coin is indeed valuable i'll help you come up with the best strategy to sell your coin and maximize your profits that said in short i can tell you that it is definitely worthwhile to get your coin authenticated and graded by a company like pcgs or ngc before you sell it if you do indeed have one of these rare varieties anyway that's about it for today but there is still a ton to learn about susan b anthony dollars so keep educating yourself keep learning and if you want to learn about other coins and currency that are worth a ton of money that could be hiding in your wallet right now check out the videos that i did in the playlist linked in the description box below and i make videos like this all the time so hit the subscribe button and come back for more because i got a lot more awesome stuff coming down the pike so stay tuned and until then silver picker out a huge huge thank you to all of my wonderful patrons you guys are amazing if you are not yet a patron but would like to support my channel the links are below and i can't wait to meet you personally and our private patron only discord server

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Length: 10min 45sec (645 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 01 2022