| Author |
 Replies: 11 / Views: 1,719 |
|
|
Valued Member
United States
157 Posts |
A few months ago and took out all the silver I could find and put it in safe box. This was before I discovered this web forum. Now I see posts of people looking for certain years of nickels, or dimes, or penny's, that aren't always silver. Maybe a well known mess up or double die damage or something. So I have around 2 or 3 shoe boxes full of mostly penny, nickel, dimes and quarters. I can take a picture if that might help of what I have. While going through, looking for silver, I noticed he kept a lot of 64' nickels for some reason? I don't know if he believed they were too in fact 90% silver? Can someone maybe point me in the direction of maybe some odd ball stuff I might find if looking hard enough. Mind you, this stuff probably wasn't touched, before I went through it a few months ago, strictly for silver... since it was thrown in to the pile... decades ago. Shall I post a pic? It'd be just a box full of dimes and nickels and such. Thanks a lot everyone!
|
|
|
|
Valued Member
United States
325 Posts |
slow down a little bit. The 64 nickels were overmade, no silver in them. Start reading some posts about DDOs, RPMs, and other things.
If you just want to get rid of them for face, you can't do it here unless you have a certain number of posts.
Someone else will be along shortly to expand on this. Good luck.
|
|
Moderator
 United States
23522 Posts |
What you're looking at here is the exact same process every collector goes through. Normal numismatic knowledge. You just get to do it all at once if you want.  Segregate them by issue. Pick one and ignore the rest for the moment. It's the only way to stay sane.  |
|
Pillar of the Community
United States
1192 Posts |
He probally kept pre 1964 nickels if he coin roll hunted nickels. There are some silver nickels they were minted between 1942-1944. There are also five key dates in those years.i keep every nickel before 1960 just to hoard them to see if I could get a premium out of them one day. Wheat cents have a minimum value of 3 cents. It's definitly worth looking at any coin 1950 and before in cents and nickels.
|
|
Rest in Peace
United States
18456 Posts |
 Pick yourself up some books of u.s. coins. go through each coin whether it's copper, nickel , or silver. look at each date and mint mark, try to judge the condition of the coin and value. this is only to get started. |
|
Valued Member
 United States
157 Posts |
To the first person who responded, these were my grand father's coins. I'm 33 and have been collecting silver for about 5 or 6 years. These are his coins from when he passed away when I was like 10 years old. They've just been in my grandmothers house. Well she's in a home now, so my Mom let me go through them since she knows I stack/collect. So I pulled out all the silver I could find, I know about War Nickels and all that other stuff. What I'm referring to is when I see posts on here regarding, just as an example "I wonder how many 1950 D nickels are in circulation"... now, I am not meaning 1950 nickel D's are worth more, I'm just using the year and mint mark as an example. I do not normally follow numismatics, unless it's Morgan's or some Peace. I have some Mercury dimes, like a 1916 or 18 P or something. My main question is there something that might stand out just based on mint mark and year? Again, I know 64 nickels aren't silver... these aren't mine. Thanks. |
|
Pillar of the Community
United States
1192 Posts |
A 1950 d nickel is definitly worth a lot more. 1939 d and 1939 s are semi keys. 1938 d and 1938 s are semi keys.
With wheats there is too many to remember. The 1909 coins need to be looked at. VDB adds a lot and a S VDB is the key to the series and is worth atleast several hundred dollars in any shape.
|
|
Pillar of the Community
United States
8904 Posts |
I'm very sorry about the passing of your Grandfather. Pictures is really the only way we can help you. If you have a good camera, get some pics taken and post them for us. I think we can help.  |
|
Valued Member
United States
157 Posts |
ok cool, I'll look through and see about the 1950 D, which I know is a 99.9999999% chance it isn't there. Like I said, I've been collecting mainly bullion for the last 6 years or so. These coins are from when he passed away, I was like 10... I'm 33 now, so they've just been sitting. So I went through and took all the silver, and had them all tubed up and in a safe place, I never even went through those to see what I had, just silver and threw it in the tube. I know there weren't too many, if any at all of the Mercury dimes, no Morgans or Peace. Just really dimes, which I got all the silver out, quarters and nickels.... no War Nickels. Thanks for the info, I'm not really looking for EVERY non silver coin that could be worth something, just stuff that might be worth looking for, like I see people posting about double dies and such, I never even considered that to be valueable stuff since, I'm not in to numi's (besides morgans... lol, I have about 70 of them, I just sent about 4 off to get slabbed). Anyways I know it's not a big help, I can try and post a picture, but I just don't think that will even help. Thanks guys! |
|
Valued Member
United States
157 Posts |
https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd....e6f93ce14f14So, hopefully this works? I'm new here obviously. The little things on the bottom are mini license plates? I think people used to put them on their keychains in case they lost their keys or something? Please let me know if it doesn't work. Appreciate it!
|
|
Pillar of the Community
 United States
5828 Posts |
|
|
Valued Member
United States
327 Posts |
Actually those little license plates used to be issued with real license plates by California DMV many years ago, I remember my parents getting them when I was a little shaver (I'm 50). Yeah, people used to put them on their key rings, but somebody figured out that putting a license on a set of car keys told whoever found (or stole) those keys what car they went to, a less than ideal situation.
There's probably a collectors market for those.
|
| |
Replies: 11 / Views: 1,719 |
|
Posted 03/11/2015 7:51 pm
