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New Member
Austria
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Dear community, I bought an old desk at a local fleamarket for 40$ and at home I found this coins accidentally hidden in a drawer while cleaning it up. Are the worth anything or can I give them to my children to play with?  cheers and thanks werner Edited by werner
09/29/2013 6:13 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Give them to your children to play with? I almost feel like you are trolling. Between the Maples and the Kregerands you have $18,746 in gold. The other stuff I am not sure. You don't have very good scans. I suppose we would need the weight and measurements of the gold coins to make sure they are real. If they are real then not bad for $40 dollars. (See what I mean by it feels like you are trolling).  |
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Valued Member
Canada
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 Welcome to CCF, Werner! I notice that the Krugerrands are various years. The Maples all appear to have a small maple leaf to the lower right. I believe that this is unique to the 2013's, suggesting that those coins may have been placed there very recently. If authentic, this is an extraordinary find for a fleamarket desk! Edited by Jerry_B
09/29/2013 7:56 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I'll give you double for the desk, as bought.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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! I would not give these to your children to play with. I feel bad for the person who put them in there...that had to be a mistake. Did you buy this from a dealer or family selling at the market? |
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United States
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United States
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New Member
 Austria
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i bought the table at the local church fleamarket from an old lady and tomorrow I will scan them bigger for you.
i also weighted the coins the coins. are the anything worth?
the coin cccp on it weighs 13g
the coins with the mapleleaf weighs 31,1g
the coins with the goat weigh between 33,9g and 34g
the coin with the 25 weighs 12g
the coin with bundesrepubkik deutschland weighs 6,2g
the coin with republik osterreich weighs 1,9g
the coin with republik kenya weighs 6,1g
the square one is 4,2g
and the flowery one is also 4g
Edited by werner
09/30/2013 7:37 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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The maple leaf weight is correct for a 1 oz gold maple leaf (still does not mean it is authentic). I think what you said is a goat is a kruggerand and the specs are close (does not mean they are authentic). This means what is pictured could be be 14 oz of gold. If real, someone really got the short end of the stick. Call me a softy, buying a table from an older lady at a church sale...I hope this gives you food for thought.
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Valued Member
Canada
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Further to what CoinsKelly said, the Krugerrand coins should weigh 33.93 ozt (troy ounces). They are 91.67% gold and 8.33% copper, therefore they weigh more than the pure gold maple leaf coins, to achieve a gold content of one ozt per coin.
Werner, if I had come upon this find, I would make every effort to find the woman who sold this. You can be fairly certain that she did not intend to give away thousands of dollars.
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New Member
Austria
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hmm yes I know the lady, she is very poor and cleared her stuff before moving to a retirement home. But would she return them to me if she found them?  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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We can only be responsible for our own actions, does it really matter what she would or would not have done? It is your decision and I hope you make one you can sleep with (or that you want your children repeating).
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Canada
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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More than likely if she is in good mental health, and her husband recently passed he probably bought and hid them never getting around to telling her where they were.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Those Maple Leafs could only have been purchased within the past year. This is not a long-forgotten hoard.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Wow!!
Yes, the maple leaves have the new security feature only found in the latest issues (the little maple leaf). The same design is also used on the latest circulation $1 and $2 coins in Canada.
You also have a nice silver 25-schilling, some newer Western European coins, some really weird stuff (coin from Iraq, Myanmar?), and lots and lots of nice gold!!
What is the other side of the CCCP coin? Many of these commemorative rubles are desirable, but not extremely valuable (although it does not seem important next to all these very valuable gold coins).
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