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Pillar of the Community
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Welcome to the Forum! The first two coins are suspect and need closer examination. The V nickel is real and is valued somewhere around five to ten dollars. (By the way....using all capital letters in your title is the Internet equivalent of yelling and makes it hard to read. Please don't yell. Thanks!) Edited by westernsky
02/20/2016 10:20 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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 First two are replicas. |
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Pillar of the Community
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Welcome, hope this starts a great journey for you..First thing I would do is to be sure they are authentic, they're about worthless if they are fakes.Most good reference material will have weight,size,composition and value, start there, then ask here if help is needed. the internet has vast reference materials also
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Pillar of the Community
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The first one is definitely a replica. The Pine tree shilling is not the usual cheap cast fake, Not real, but a better made replica.
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Pillar of the Community
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Agree the 1883 nickel is real the others are replicas . If they were real they'd be worth a lot....especially the pine cent.
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Athens5, it is a small thing, but as you start to delve deeper into your inheritance, you should consider taking a pair of pliers and squeezing flat all the staples on these 2x2s. Otherwise, the raised portions have a tendency to scratch the next coin over as they rub against it. If you search CCF for "staples", you'll find a couple threads where this is discussed. I'm not trying to side-track your thread with a huge discussion of this other topic, but rather just recommending that you take this effort to better protect your coins. Not everything in there is a dud, and what a shame it would be to inadvertently cause damage to them during storage.
"If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
-----King Adz
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Valued Member
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The Pine Tree is a good replica and would make a nice pocket piece ..... The Cent not so much and the V nickel as mentioned a $5-$10 coin ...... When you say a ton of coins, what does that mean? Are the coins mostly in the 2x2 holders or in books / albums? Why did you pick those three out of bunch! |
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Agree. Highly unlikely the first 2 are genuine.
Welcome to the forum and sorry for your loss.
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Pillar of the Community
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 and with what everyone has said. Enjoy the ride. |
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Pillar of the Community
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the first two coins are replicas. The third coin is genuine 1883 "No Cents" Liberty Head Nickel. Hope that you enjoy the site. |
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Good luck going through your new collection.
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New Member
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thanks you everyone for the input. I have 10 binders full of old world coins in 2x2's. not sure where to start
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Rest in Peace
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You need to get a good book on world coins for a start .
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Valued Member
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Hi athens....you mentioned that you were wondering where to start...
Perhaps you might consider determining which coins are fakes and which are legitimate.
Then separate them.
That will give you a solid place to start organizing.
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