Anyone collect old coins?
Jul 16th 2004, 4:04 am
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Anyone collect old coins?
We are cleaning out the house and I found a bunch of old coins. I want to find out what they are worth. No ripping me off either 
Jul 16th 2004, 4:40 am
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Take them to your local library and look them up in the coin-collecting catalogues in the reference section (might be under N for numismatism {...or something like that}).
Or type the pertinent details in Ebay and see what comes up -remember to try the "completed sales" option.
What coins do you have?
Or type the pertinent details in Ebay and see what comes up -remember to try the "completed sales" option.
What coins do you have?
Last edited by monster; Jul 16th 2004 at 4:46 am.
Jul 16th 2004, 4:46 am
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(I don't collect any more, but my grandad did - when he died, Christies devoted an entire auction to his collection, and my sister and finally admitted we couldn't give two hoots about coin collecting and sold our collections at a car boot sale 
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Jul 16th 2004, 10:00 am
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As a married man I have enough trouble collecting new coins let alone old ones !
Jul 16th 2004, 12:25 pm
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Originally posted by monster
Take them to your local library and look them up in the coin-collecting catalogues in the reference section (might be under N for numismatism {...or something like that}).
Or type the pertinent details in Ebay and see what comes up -remember to try the "completed sales" option.
What coins do you have?
Take them to your local library and look them up in the coin-collecting catalogues in the reference section (might be under N for numismatism {...or something like that}).
Or type the pertinent details in Ebay and see what comes up -remember to try the "completed sales" option.
What coins do you have?
Apparently after looking on the net, the Mercury heads might (?) be worth something. There are 10 missing but I have one called 1916-D.
No idea about the Roosevelt or Barber ones.
Also there are buffalo nickels and wheat pennies but I doubt they are worth much!
Jul 16th 2004, 12:27 pm
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Originally posted by doctor scrumpy
As a married man I have enough trouble collecting new coins let alone old ones !
As a married man I have enough trouble collecting new coins let alone old ones !
Jul 16th 2004, 3:17 pm
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Sounds like a fun find!
According to this link the Barber dimes are worth anything from around $20 to $65,000 (!) depending on the year.
As you say, the 1916-D Mercury dime is potentially worth a lot of money at auction - the lowest price here is $345, but the highest is $32,775.
All in all, it sounds like you've found yourself quite a valuable little haul!
According to this link the Barber dimes are worth anything from around $20 to $65,000 (!) depending on the year.
As you say, the 1916-D Mercury dime is potentially worth a lot of money at auction - the lowest price here is $345, but the highest is $32,775.
All in all, it sounds like you've found yourself quite a valuable little haul!
