Garage sale

tightlines · Feb 3, 2007

While driving home from the shops yesterday came upon a garage sale. went in and had a look around and noticed a tin with some coins in picked it up and asked how much, he said is a £1 ok(i think thats about two dollars). when i arrived home and had a look this was one them. Was that a good buy?
Thanks
Pete

scotto · Feb 3, 2007

Good going, still lookin for my first one.

Marty-Graw · Feb 3, 2007

TreasureTales said:
Nice bargain on that coin. But I think your math is off. If it takes $2.00 to equal 1 Pound (I don't have the symbol on my keyboard), then your coin is worth 40 pounds, not 440 pounds. But the estimates would be appropriate here in the USA, I don't imagine it would be worth 40 pounds in Britain.

i think he was talking abouit his weight not currency conversion..... just my guess

TreasureTales · Feb 3, 2007

MartyG said:
TreasureTales said:

Nice bargain on that coin. But I think your math is off. If it takes $2.00 to equal 1 Pound (I don't have the symbol on my keyboard), then your coin is worth 40 pounds, not 440 pounds. But the estimates would be appropriate here in the USA, I don't imagine it would be worth 40 pounds in Britain.

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i think he was talking abouit his weight not currency conversion..... just my guess

Well, English is my second language...American is my first.

Something must have gotten lost in translation.

tightlines · Feb 3, 2007

Many thanks for all your kind comments,i can now see how lucky i was,in twenty years of metal detecting i have never sold a coin, and even though i paid for this i will never part with it. once again my sincere thanks. love the site.
Pete.

diggummup · Feb 3, 2007

The "cc" mint mark on your coin is highly collectible and sought after over here.There were only 591,000 of those minted as compared to 12,600,000 from the Philidelphia mint in that same year.Even in that condition it's worth at least what jeff of pa. said it was,nice find for sure.Go back and see if he has anymore "foreign" coins to offer!

River Rat · Feb 3, 2007

Very, very nice!!

RR

whitesid · Feb 3, 2007

ill give you $3 for it

great buy, what other coins were there?

WV Hillbilly · Feb 3, 2007

I'll be danged if I ever sit in the car again while my wife checks out all those yard + garage sales . :'(

That's a real nice find . HH

tightlines · Feb 3, 2007

whitesid said:
ill give you $3 for it

great buy, what other coins were there? The rest(14 in total) were English one being a sixpence of the old head of Victoria 1898 and the rest were Pennies and Halfpennies of George v1 1946 +.
Pete

Comanche Todd · Feb 3, 2007

are you sure it's authentic? see the two Morgan silver dollars above, one is a FAKE

and the back has the same mint mark as your coin "CC" for Carson City

you can buy these in chinatown, San Francisco for $2 - $3 each

guess which coin is the fake? one is authentic and one is a reproduction made in China

TreasureTales · Feb 3, 2007

Comanche Todd, I've got some bad news for you. BOTH of your cartwheels are counterfeits. LOL I guess your 1882 coin is a fake.

LONE GUNMAN · Feb 3, 2007

nice coin and a really good date.....buy looking at your coin i would say that it is at least a vf 20 or better....now we look it up in the 2007 red book and going price on that coin is between 160-170.....not bad for a couple of bucks......
great job
Lone

Southcacalaky · Feb 4, 2007

No matter what it's worth, ya got a deal, HH Art...

Comanche Todd · Feb 4, 2007

TreasureTales said:
Comanche Todd, I've got some bad news for you. BOTH of your cartwheels are counterfeits. LOL I guess your 1882 coin is a fake.

you are correct! the 1882 Morgan is the fake one

and it has the CC mint mark on the back

TreasureTales · Feb 4, 2007

Hey Comanche Todd, tightlines' silver dollar is legit. Look at Lady Liberty's upper lip on his coin...see the slight sneer? And look at her chin, it's full. His coin is the real deal.

Old Tom · Feb 4, 2007

Nice find ... guess I am going to have to start looking at Garage sales

diggummup · Feb 4, 2007

Comanche Todd said:
are you sure it's authentic? see the two Morgan silver dollars above, one is a FAKE

and the back has the same mint mark as your coin "CC" for Carson City

you can buy these in chinatown, San Francisco for $2 - $3 each

guess which coin is the fake? one is authentic and one is a reproduction made in China

I wouldv'e guessed the 82 also but just for the heck of it,what does the counterfeit weigh? Or is it not yours?

Comanche Todd · Feb 4, 2007

diggummup said:
Comanche Todd said:

are you sure it's authentic? see the two Morgan silver dollars above, one is a FAKE

and the back has the same mint mark as your coin "CC" for Carson City

you can buy these in chinatown, San Francisco for $2 - $3 each

guess which coin is the fake? one is authentic and one is a reproduction made in China

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I wouldv'e guessed the 82 also but just for the heck of it,what does the counterfeit weigh? Or is it not yours?