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Valued Member
United Kingdom
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I've got these coins from one old man that has them for 30 years. These are 100% counterfeits, but he told me they are all solid silver. I'm not interested to keep them anymore and was thinking what can I get from these coins if they are more than 30 years older and not plated but solid silver? are these counterfeits collectables? all lot weight 165g   |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
10045 Posts |
These might be hard to assess a value from a numismatic perspective.
I might first have them confirmed for silver content, then price compare to other jewelry reproductions.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1796 Posts |
Aye once you've established silver content, then you have a base price at spot.
From there, they'd probably sell better as jewelry items than numismatic items, I'd wager.
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Valued Member
 United Kingdom
164 Posts |
What if they are solid silver? I was told they are. Can I get 15gpb for each, how do you think?
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
10045 Posts |
Silver jewelry usually includes hallmarks that should confirm the silver content. A good starting point might be checking online catalogues of silver hallmarks, or taking them to a jewler to run some tests. |
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Valued Member
United Kingdom
164 Posts |
Some of them has 925 mark
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New Member
United Kingdom
35 Posts |
Scrap price for 165g of Sterling Silver is around £100 (£103 when I checked). They can be tested with a test solution.
Although they may not necessarily be all that interesting to collectors of period Greek coins, I think they are quite attractive as jewellery items. I would also hazard a guess that, that is probably there purpose for being produced i.e novelty medallions.
I like them. Nice collection.
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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If they are good quality fakes they may be of interest to ancient coin collectors at some premuim above their bullion value.
There is some common sense to collecting good fakes as a personal education to an ancient coin collector, so he may be more able to identify other fakes, when consideribg the purchase of genuine coins.
Therefore a guess, at a market value for these based on 100 Pounds bullion value, would be around 120 to 150 Pounds. They would still have to be tested and examined for their silver content.
If they are known fakes, they may very well have a base metal core, the market value would then be below 100 Pounds, by a significant amount.
Instead, how about taking up an active interest in ancient coins? There are many dealers and collectors in the U.K., and there are lots of collectors of ancients here in the CCF, to help you out.
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Valued Member
United Kingdom
164 Posts |
i will test it today and will post here with outcome :)
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Valued Member
United Kingdom
164 Posts |
So, in jewelry shop some of them were tested with silver solution liquid and some showed to be silver, some not..
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Posted 03/26/2012 3:09 pm
