Any coin or currency collectors here?
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The past three days , I picked up an 1835 Very Fine silver Bust Half dime , an 1836 silver Extra Fine Bust quarter , an 1840 O Seated Liberty silver dime in Very Fine , a Very Good / Fine 1916 D Buffalo nickel , an 1823/2 silver Bust dime in Very Good , a Brilliant Uncirculated 1937 Buffalo nickel , another About Uncirculated 1851 Gold Dollar , an 1833 silver Bust Half Dime , an 1857 silver Seated Liberty Half dime in Very Good , a 1918 Extra Fine 45 plus silver Mercury dime , a pair of silver Standing Liberty quarters , 1924 Fine 15 and 1927 S in Good , an 1896 O Good quarter and a Very Fine 35 1853 Arrrows & Rays silver Seated Liberty quarter . Lots of fun . I am leaning on keeping the 1853 Arr & Rays quarter and 1857 Half dime. I think I have the others sold . Very tough to find good deals on silver & gold coins right now and I was on these so they were easy to sell below wholesale.
Here lately I picked up a pair of silver Bust Halves , an About Uncirculated 53 1821 and an Extra Fine 45 1831 , a brilliant uncirculated 1942 S silver quarter , an Uncirculated 1867 Indian Cent , three 1962 Franklin silver Proofs , and an About Uncirculated 53 1943 Double Die Obverse silver quarter .
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@oyarde Do you mind answering a couple of coin related questions? I just got a bunch of coins for Christmas who belonged to my dead great uncle. I am going to liquidate them.
Should I expect anything above face value on common things like Kennedy half dollars, Eisenhower dollars, Susan B. Anthony dollars, Jefferson nickels, buffalo head nickels or wheat pennies?
If I go to a coin dealer with something like this https://www.coinstudy.com/1921-morgan-silver-dollar-value.html Should I expect the melt value or would a coin dealer offer me closer to the $25 list price. These have been in circulation.
Finally, I have this thing and something similar. It was used on a necklace so it has drill hole in the top, which Google says kills the value Do you have ballpark what a reasonable price I should accept would be? https://www.vcoins.com/en/stores/nu..._1888_london__gold_km767/1094367/Default.aspx
Should I expect anything above face value on common things like Kennedy half dollars, Eisenhower dollars, Susan B. Anthony dollars, Jefferson nickels, buffalo head nickels or wheat pennies?
If I go to a coin dealer with something like this https://www.coinstudy.com/1921-morgan-silver-dollar-value.html Should I expect the melt value or would a coin dealer offer me closer to the $25 list price. These have been in circulation.
Finally, I have this thing and something similar. It was used on a necklace so it has drill hole in the top, which Google says kills the value Do you have ballpark what a reasonable price I should accept would be? https://www.vcoins.com/en/stores/nu..._1888_london__gold_km767/1094367/Default.aspx
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Your 1921 Morgan in Very Fine or Extra Fine should bring 24 to 24 1/2 which is about 4 over spot or spot in lesser condition. Your Sov with a hole is going to be about three percent under spot . Kennedy Halves 1965 to 1970 are 40 percent silver and will bring 2 1/2 ( under spot ) after 1970 face value unless there are any silver proofs in there. the sba and ike dollar business strike copper - nickel coins , face . Any ikes with an S mintmark need the edge checked to see if they are silver, those will be 40 percent but appear like a 90 percent on the edge. Jefferson nickels need checked for war nickels which bring under spot but still real money . The ww2 silver ones all have a big mintmark on top of the dome on the rev , rest are nickel and once circulated only the 1950 D worth much . Buffalo nickels with a full date from 1920 to 1937 you should be able to get 30 cents ea for . Within there are 1921 S , 1926 S and 1931 S which are worth some dollars . Other than that , pretty much all the 1913's and 1914's are worth something and any 1915 to 1919 with a mint mark. The Philly mint coins are higher mintage , more common and worth less. Circ whea cents around 2 to 3 cents ea . If you have any older than 1932 you'll need to check for dates worth something . Most of those are 1909 S , 1910 S , 1911 S , 1912 S , 1913 S , 1914 D , 1914 S , 1915 S,1922 D , 1924 D ,1926 S and 1931 S. There are a few others in early 20's with mintmarks but they need to be high condition . All dealers use a ( CDN) Grey Sheet which you can buy a current off e bay for 35 that gives a dealer wholesale price on those coins worth something . It isnt what they'll offer ( more likely around where they will try to sell ) but they should be within 20 or 30 percent . Hope that helps .
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Thanks for the help. I rifled through and found nine pre 1970 Kennedy half dollars which I probably would have otherwise just thrown in the coin machine at the bank. The buffalo nickels all look to be 1929 and later though some have worn off dates. The Ikes looked like nothing special. I sorted through and filtered the Jefferson nickels and will look at the closer later.
My baseline assumption is to get roughly spot on the total. My reading is a lot of dealers go slightly under spot. Some of the coins are in plastic and in good shape and some are in terrible shape. There is a fair amount of random stuff that you would buy off of TV that is uncirculated like Ellis Island commemorative coins. My assumption is no one wants that stuff above the melt value but it is all in the original box and uncirculated.
I also found about a half dozen liberty half dollars. A few of them are in plastic and appear to be lightly circulated so hoping to get a few bucks more.
I think I found a place about 35 minutes away that advertising itself as the biggest gold and silver seller in the Midwest and will probably just use them over local people who have smaller operations, given that everything I know about coins I learned in the last 24 hours so I feel like they should be more reputable.
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The Ellis Island dollars are 90 percent silver , the halves just copper nickel
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I didn't mean the Kennedy's. Was talking about this. https://www.usacoinbook.com/coins/2807/half-dollars/walking-liberty/1936-P/
Also found some random french money https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces691.html and this https://coinquest.com/cgi-bin/cq/coins.pl?coin=3101 and this is silver https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces183930.html
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On the Walking Liberty Halves after all the 1921's there is a date , 1938 D thats worth something but the others will need to be Extra Fine or About Uncirculated to be worth much more than the silver price. Mostly the valuable ones are all the 1921's , 1916's and the 1917's with mintmarks . 1917 P's are about silver in low grade
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Do you know why 1oz eagles are $160 less on Kitco right now compared to all the other online dealers???
The place the local shop here uses for inventory replenishment is selling 1 ounce gold eagles to licensed dealers with an account at spot plus 7 1/4 percent . Proofs are different entirely , same place is buying those spot plus 275 and t has been as high as spot plus 300 this yr. I have not checked at what they are selling them for but probably about the same percent over is my guess.
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