All My Dads 1786/1787 New Jersey Colonials, Thoughts?

They look fine to me, the 48-g is alittle rough but also very worn. Planchets werent always the greatest with colonial coins from my understanding. Some of them were also struck over other old coins of various sources. so old rough and brand new are in the same ballpark

Nice collection and thanks for sharing! I recently picked up 2 of these for resale. I was really surprised at how large they are. They dwarf the size of large cents.

Really nice group of coins, thanks for sharing! Not something you get to see very often.

Those are wonderful! I'd love to have any one of those coppers in my collection. I wonder if it would be worth a quick acetone bath to see if that would held loosen or dissolve the material in the vertical shield lines.

Thank you all for the comments. This entire process has been very informative. My dad has not decided if he wants to sell them or not. He keeps changing his mind. I would not go to the trouble of sending them to a TPG if he wasn't going to monetize them. But if he did decide...and to your point colonialjohn, would I be leaving money on the table not having them graded? Do coins sell for less if they are not slabbed? Should you use ebay or an auction house like HA? And to your question Oldwormwood, I am thoroughly confused on whether to dip the bad ones or having the TPG do it for that matter. I just don't know what is the right thing to do.

To whoever said they looked cleaned or ground found, I see no evidence to suggest either. This is a fantastic collection of NJ coppers. The OP's father must have had a knack for buying high quality coins. Well done.

Thanks for posting these. Nice to see what the folks in my state were up to a long time ago.

I like your plan to send up 2 or 3 of the better ones for authentication. They'll also say if cleaned. They do seem remarkably clean, such as the 64-T. Part of that impression may be from the bright lighting needed for the pictures, too.