so just found my childhood coin collection

[BenButton]

Got a whole bag full of old foreign coins
1944 merc
1958 rosie
1943p steel BU
1937 buf
1929 buf
1965 1G nederland silver

I'll post pics later

wheats - 70
steel pennies - 1
V nickels - 1
buffalo nickels - 4
wartime nickels - 1
mercury dimes - 1
silver dimes - 7
silver quarters - 4
90% halfs - 0
40% halfs - 0

 

[BenButton]

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wheats - 70
steel pennies - 1
V nickels - 1
buffalo nickels - 4
wartime nickels - 1
mercury dimes - 1
silver dimes - 7
silver quarters - 4
90% halfs - 0
40% halfs - 0

 

[BenButton]

wheats - 70
steel pennies - 1
V nickels - 1
buffalo nickels - 4
wartime nickels - 1
mercury dimes - 1
silver dimes - 7
silver quarters - 4
90% halfs - 0
40% halfs - 0

 

[adaminnh]

Nice find

 

[sagittarius98]

PM me with the contents of the bag, and I will tell you the values of the foreign coins. I can also tell you my email in the PM so that you can e-mail me (preferred over PM).

 

[BenButton]

PM me with the contents of the bag, and I will tell you the values of the foreign coins. I can also tell you my email in the PM so that you can e-mail me (preferred over PM).

Thanks! I'll probably get around to that this weekend

 

[Dihren]

Thats great Ben Button! You have such a love for coins! How were you ever separated from the collection? Whats the backstory? And pick through those foreigns for silvers!!

 

[BenButton]

Thats great Ben Button! You have such a love for coins! How were you ever separated from the collection? Whats the backstory? And pick through those foreigns for silvers!!

Idk, I moved out of my dads house at 15. Went to college 4 years ago. Moved to Ohio, cali. And now my dad got married and is moving out of the house. He was always into coins and I remembered coins I used to have as a kid. So of course I had to go look. In the back of my closet I found the foreign ones. And in my old dresser drawer was the old us coins

 

[sagittarius98]

The Netherlands gulden is .720 silver and has .1505 troy oz. of silver.

 

[lost]

sagittarius98---thank you for the help I see you giving these guys. You are going well above the board in looking up these coins for people. My wife has a 40 odd year collection of foreign coins. She taught school for an even 40 years and use to buy some by the pound, in bags for her class and 4-H Club prizes. At a Gun Show in NC many years ago, around 1966, she bought ten pounds of Mexican Coins once for $20 bucks. Still have them in the same cloth bag. I'm sure, no I know some are silver. Just how much I need to work on. The old suitcase she keeps them in weighs 47 pounds. Every time I think about going through that suitcase to separate the silver, I quickly find an excuse to do something else.

 

[BenButton]

My favorites are my cccp coins, probably not worth much though

 

[Nickel Searcher 219]

what are cccp coins?

 

[BenButton]

what are cccp coins?

Soviet Union

 

[Nickel Searcher 219]

ohhh.gotcha,thanks

 

[sagittarius98]

My favorites are my cccp coins, probably not worth much though

Many of them are worth quite a bit, in fact, I got a set of silver Soviet coins for $40 or so from an LCS that has overpriced stuff, and the set was worth like $150.


The copper/brass coins can be worth something too.



For NS219 as a follow up, CCCP is:

Союз Советских Социалистических Республик or literally The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

 

[sagittarius98]

sagittarius98---thank you for the help I see you giving these guys. You are going well above the board in looking up these coins for people. My wife has a 40 odd year collection of foreign coins. She taught school for an even 40 years and use to buy some by the pound, in bags for her class and 4-H Club prizes. At a Gun Show in NC many years ago, around 1966, she bought ten pounds of Mexican Coins once for $20 bucks. Still have them in the same cloth bag. I'm sure, no I know some are silver. Just how much I need to work on. The old suitcase she keeps them in weighs 47 pounds. Every time I think about going through that suitcase to separate the silver, I quickly find an excuse to do something else.

If I knew there could be silver in there, I would stop what I'm doing and separate it (just like what I do with CRH).

 

[Dihren]

If I knew there could be silver in there, I would stop what I'm doing and separate it (just like what I do with CRH).

My thoughts exactly!