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I visited my local antique mall so often that they know me by name and know that I deal with US coins and Foreign coins. A few weeks ago I was asked to price an estate of coins ranging from 1731-2000 and from places from Russia to States of Jersey to USA to Austria and everywhere in between. It took me 14 hours and two days to identify and write up all the coins in the estate that would be sell-able. (Silver and old copper coins) i had to look for counterfeits also and found 1 counterfeit gold piece and 18 counterfeit silver pieces (Mostly Chinese coins). At the end they gave me the entire US half dollar set which included 2 bust half dollars, 1 seated liberty, 3 barber, 2 walking liberty, 2 Franklin, 2 90% Kennedy, 2 40% Kennedy, and a 1982D Washington commemorative half dollar. Oh and a heavily worn large penny That deserves some dancing fruit        here is the USA lot   Another thing I bought from the lot is the German coins (From the WW1 and Third Reich)  and some russian coins (1731,1775,1785,1858)  And some miscellaneous coins (Sr Isaac Newton Farthing from 1793)  and they gave me some of the counterfeits for FREE... So I was able to get everything here for 14 hours and $25. And I priced everything above silver value too. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Sounds like you did good. Plus you proved to the mall that you are willing and able to evaluate coins for them. Looks like you will be able to do more for them in the future.
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Valued Member
United States
161 Posts |
Nothing like getting paid to look at coins !
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New Member
United States
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Love that Job! Nice work...
Do I see a 5 Ruble Copper there?
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
850 Posts |
yes they are 5 Ruble Copper coins. Weighs around 2 ounces. I was just amazed just because of the looks and the date. I like the double headed eagle that Russia had.
Yeah those counterfeits were off by 7 grams (Only one passed that test)
Out of half of the ones that weighed incorrectly they also failed the magnet test.
And the one coin that passed both test failed the acid test. Oh well
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Valued Member
United States
161 Posts |
Acid test on a coin? How does that work? Don't you have to file the coin down to test it?
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New Member
United States
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Thanks Coincollector,
The Catherine 5 Rubles are the largest round coppers issued,
and one of the most attractive,
still looking for one of those, I have dug a 1797 Tuppence.
I've examined a couple Chinese CFTs at a local coin & antique shop,
You'd think a shopowner would recognize them (maybe he did..)
the two I saw were pretty poor copies also, I don't know if they were
'7 grams underweight'
but a close look was all it took me to see something was wrong.
Best wishes, Will.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
850 Posts |
well you scratch off part of the coin (usually the rim) on a piece of slate then you drip a particular type of acid on it. If the acid dissolves the 'silver' then it is not silver and if the 'silver turns a blueish milky white then its silver.
It damages the coin and it makes me cry on the inside when I did that
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United States
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Congrats! Pls turn on the email feature as I would love to ask if I could get the counterfeits from you. I have a neat set of fakes I'm using as educational tools that I got from other collectors from the pcgs and ngc forums
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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well that is good way to use them. The ppl at the antique mall was trying to figure out what to do with the counterfeits as right now they are just sitting on a shelf in a display.
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Russian Federation
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yes they are 5 Ruble Copper coins Quote:
The Catherine 5 Rubles are the largest round coppers issued It's 5 COPECKS. Not rubles. There never was a 5 ruble copper (there was a 1 ruble copper, in 1771, but it's bordering on being a pattern). Coincidentally, I don't think these 5 copeck pieces are the largest round coppers issued, either (indeed, I know Siberian 10 copecks were slightly larger). |
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United States
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Very cool! I love the 1827 half.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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sweet pictures thanks for sharing those
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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The acids I use go blood red for silver...breaks my heart too...
Anyway... 14 hours that seems like a lot of work but good job and a good haul...maybe you enjoyed yourself doing that though, and it was probably good practice maybe you learnt a thing or two in the process.
I am too lazy to write up all my collection (mainly because I keep moving things and also because my refernece books are out of date) but I think that nosing through someone else collection could be more fun (simply because you don't know what you will come across... the write up for my collection is in my head really, I have a fair idea about every piece) It would be different if I was getting paid with some nice old coins :)
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Pillar of the Community
United States
850 Posts |
David. Yeah that was the first time using the acid test and it made me sad. well 14 hours was because of the detail they wanted on the cardboard cards (Dates, dealer number, price, silver amount, and country) and there were alot of random coins that I had to look up because the name of the country was not a readable language (At least I took Japanese and German so I can read some of the chinese and japanese coins) Before I went to college I decided that I wanted to write up my collection so I made up an Excel spreadsheet and that was after 4 years of collecting seriously. that took me two days to catalog and design (I still have not added sections for gold :/) Yeah my books are somewhat out of date Red Book 2012 1700-1800 2003 (Computer pdf) 1800-1900 2007(computer pdf) 1900-2000 2009 2000-20XX 2007 I want to update some books but it is expensive I love nosing through another collection. It is random and alot of fun to learn of something else and I wont know what is in it until I look. I have to write up my girlfriends parents collection for them sometime this year. |
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United States
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Hi january,
we are both wrong, it's not a Ruble, and it's not a copeck,
It's a Kopeck,(I knew this, sometimes we all make mistakes)
and of the Siberians, the 10 Kopeck is 47mm.
Guess that would be the largest.
Great work at the Mall CoinCollector!
I also enjoy the surprises when cataloging others collections..
Keep up the great work!
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Posted 07/28/2012 1:03 pm
