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    Japanese coins (plus some random stuff) from under a tree

    in Newbie Coin Collecting Questions

    Posted · Edited by Thompson2

    I was going through old posts and thought I'd add to this one with some better pics (and ID's) and some of the other coins I found under the same stump... 

    1 Mon, no mint mark, 24.7mm diameter most likely C#1.1, 1.  Haven't been able to get a firm grip on date, but somewhere between 1636-1870 (more likely 1740 or later)

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    4 Mon C# 6b, 26.6mm 1863-1867

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    Sorting 1964 Kennedy Half Dollars?

    in Newbie Coin Collecting Questions

    Posted · Edited by Thompson2

    I have a stack of these (well, several stacks actually) and I'm wondering if there are any stand-out errors / varieties (aside from the "Heavily Accented Hair" version) that I should go hunting for? 

    Seems like there's a small possibility of DDO or RPM, but even those have to be mid to high 60's to hold much value.. 

    Anything I've overlooked (or a resource that I haven't found that would have details)? 

     

    <edit>Maybe nevermind... found this on NGC (doh!) https://www.ngccoin.in/variety-plus/united-states/half-dollars/kennedy-half-dollars-1964-date/820389/ </edit>

     

     

    Thanks

    where to sell old coins?

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    16 hours ago, RDP1965 said:

    I have 4 Indian Head pennies (1904 - 1908).  I also have many silver quarters (1964); silver Kennedy half dollars (1964-68); walking liberty half dollars; silver dimes; Franklin half dollars (1948-1963).  Too many to submit all pictures. 

     

    If you're going to try to sell them online, you'll need high res, really in-focus pics of all of them anyway.  Might as well post them here (generically, not necessarily in this forum) to get a start.  If you have a bunch, I'd suggest getting a Red Book (most any coin shop or Amazon will have it for less than $20).  Then inventory what you've got by year and mint mark and see which ones may hold real value and start with those.

    1999-D penny doubled eyelid

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    Dumb question on plating bubbling - is there air under the lifted plating or does the zinc actually corrode and bubble?  Mostly wondering if one could take a toothpick or similar non-marring widget and poke at the supposed bubble to determine what it actually is?

    And a second thought on this one - keep it, tag it and keep an eye out for similar.  If it's a die-related thing, the features will be identical.  If it's bubbling, they'll look different (I'm assuming anyway)...

    Wheat penny help identify

    in Newbie Coin Collecting Questions

    Posted · Edited by Thompson2

    If you're gonna make up stories about this, you should get more creative.  I'm pretty sure that was stamped over a Roman Siscian coin circa 412 AD!  I mean, you can clearly see that in the shadow of Lincon's head.  And who's to say that didn't happen?? 

    Wow!  that's amazing... 

     

    (Why do people provide actual, thought-out feedback to the trolls anyway?)

     

     

    How to value / trade in non-NGC-item# coinage & metals

    in Newbie Coin Collecting Questions

    Posted · Edited by Thompson2

    So I was in a similar (but not identical) situation in that we came into a stash of several hundred coins, most of which were unremarkable but there were a few that were pretty nice.  Red Book is a good place to start.  Sort what you've got and start to identify key/semi-key dates and mint marks.  Once you have everything arranged, this doesn't take that long.  A quick pass down the page of the book and you can see the ones that have more value at any grade.  Pull those out.

    Then start looking for variants or date/MM combinations where the value "hockey sticks" up at higher grades and see if you have any of those (even if you can't really tell if what you've got is the higher grade or now).  This can be a bit tougher because not all the variants are clearly indicated in Red Book.  I ran into this with a Morgan dollar that was listed as "Reverse 2", but no further description... Google can help a lot with that. 

    Also, get some 2x2 PVC free flips so that you can protect coins as you find them.  The ones I bought came with 2x2 "notecards" that let me write down what the coin was and any other information that I thought was relevant so I didn't have to figure out why I had set that coin aside.  <edit> You'll need these even for the coins in snaps if you send them in for grading.  They want to see them in flips. Not sure how they feel about the snaps </edit>

    Then get good at grading over the course of years, get good at taking pictures so you can get opinions from the crew here on grades for particular coins (especially those that are marginal for getting slabbed), and / or find a good coin shop in your area that can (and is willing) to help with grading sorting.  For the last option, remember that they need to make a living, so they can't offer top dollar / full retail price for what you've got.

    A word of caution on getting coins graded without having an experienced eye take a look at them - there's always the hazard that the coins you've got were cleaned which can pull a significant amount of value out of them.  I learned that the hard, expensive way.  So while this forum is a great resource, it does have its limitation... 

    Good luck with it.  Can't wait to see what you discover. 

    Michael

    The 'Rona made me do it! (Picked up a couple of Morgans)

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    6 hours ago, Coinbuf said:

    Opps sorry I forgot you have the rev of 78 and pulled the value for a regular 1879-S.  Having said that both the NGC ($230) and PCGS ($250) price guides are well over the recent auction results which over the past 4yrs have a wide range from a low of $60 to a high of $200 and a median of around $150.  Those results are for NGC and PCGS graded coins that were auctioned by HA, DL, and SB; I didn't look at CG to see what their results have been.  Auction history on the 1885-CC shows a very tight price range from AU58 to MS64 with a slight price jump at MS65 for NGC and PCGS graded coins.  Because the market often discounts the ICG holder and the tight price range likely explains why you got a deal.

    Lol... easy to overlook that.  Good thing these forums offer a money back guarantee on the free input.  :)  I didn't get the steal of the century on the 1879, but not too bad (still not enough to justify a cross, I think).   

    Do you have similar data for the 1885?  Now I'm really curious on how it's trending... 

    Or, instead of just providing the info, is there somewhere that tracks the auction info (I noticed that most sold listing for both of these went below NGC/PCGS Pricing)?  ePay only leaves sold items up for a few months.  I've not looked at HA (assuming Heritage Auctions?)  Who are DL, SB and CG?