plus sign coin need help!
- Thread starter searcherman
- Start date
lordmarcovan
Hero Member
- Joined
- Jan 3, 2006
- Messages
- 554
- Reaction score
- 29
- Golden Thread
- 0
- Location
- Golden Isles Of Georgia
- Detector(s) used
- Many models over the years, mostly Garretts
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
It indeed resembles a 1957-B Swiss 1-rappen piece, but do I detect a silvery color in those pictures?
That and the hole in it give me a hunch.
I believe it is from a 1950s-era charm bracelet. Ask your grandmother if she ever had one, or if she remembers them.
A number of those bracelets were made with replicas of Swiss 1-rappen pieces, British halfpennies, and several other world coins of the era. Sometimes the coins are real and plated with silver-colored metal, and sometimes they are cast replicas, but in either event it makes little difference, since the original coins are not that valuable to begin with. Apparently these bracelets were quite the craze during the Eisenhower and/or Kennedy eras, because when I buy bulk bags for my coin shop, I often come across pieces like this, with the hole, the silver color, and sometimes casting seams on them.
Your coin looks as though it could be real, I guess. Look inside the hole. Is there copper colored metal in there? These are supposed to be bronze coins. If it's all silvery and has seams around the edges, then it is cast. Otherwise it is a real coin, but either way, it has no monetary value except as a curiosity. (And in that regard, I think it's pretty neat. I wouldn't mind digging one.)
That and the hole in it give me a hunch.
I believe it is from a 1950s-era charm bracelet. Ask your grandmother if she ever had one, or if she remembers them.
A number of those bracelets were made with replicas of Swiss 1-rappen pieces, British halfpennies, and several other world coins of the era. Sometimes the coins are real and plated with silver-colored metal, and sometimes they are cast replicas, but in either event it makes little difference, since the original coins are not that valuable to begin with. Apparently these bracelets were quite the craze during the Eisenhower and/or Kennedy eras, because when I buy bulk bags for my coin shop, I often come across pieces like this, with the hole, the silver color, and sometimes casting seams on them.
Your coin looks as though it could be real, I guess. Look inside the hole. Is there copper colored metal in there? These are supposed to be bronze coins. If it's all silvery and has seams around the edges, then it is cast. Otherwise it is a real coin, but either way, it has no monetary value except as a curiosity. (And in that regard, I think it's pretty neat. I wouldn't mind digging one.)
Upvote
0
searcherman
Jr. Member
- #4
Thread Owner
Inside the hole it is a green copper color and the letters were the silver color was rubbed off is green also.Thanks!
Upvote
0
lordmarcovan
Hero Member
- Joined
- Jan 3, 2006
- Messages
- 554
- Reaction score
- 29
- Golden Thread
- 0
- Location
- Golden Isles Of Georgia
- Detector(s) used
- Many models over the years, mostly Garretts
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
Yep, it's a real coin, then. But unfortunately not worth a whole lot. Even in Mint State, without the hole and the silvery plating, it would only be worth a buck or so. ($1.00 catalog value in UNC and $4.00 in full Red Brilliant UNC, by the 2009 Krause.) The mintage was 15,226,000. The "B" mintmark stands for the city of Bern, by the way (their primary Mint city).
Upvote
0
Similar threads
Users who are viewing this thread
Sponsored Vendors
View all →
