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I recently inherited quite a few coins and a few stamps from my grandfather last month. And this is all new to me some of them come from a company called American Mint and are very interesting but I'm not sure if they are just novelty coins. Some of them even have Certificate of Authenticity with them. If anyone can enlightening me it would be greatly appreciated. It'll be my starting point to starting my own collection.   This is just one of the coins  *** Moved by Staff moved to a more appropriate forum. *** |
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Moderator
 United States
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Can we see a picture of the other side?
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New Member
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Here's the back   |
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United States
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I don't recognize that coin. It doesn't appear to be issued by the US mint, so I moved this thread to the token section.  |
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New Member
United States
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Thank you I didn't even see that section. Like I said all very new to me |
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Bedrock of the Community
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 Personally, I would start with any real coins that you got and research those. Then move on to items like you posted. Those require more research and may be worth very little or a lot depending on who designed and minted them and how many were made. If you want to learn more about U.S. coins and start a collection, I recommend buying the latest edition of the Red Book as a start. It's packed with pertinent info and the price is nice! In Memory of Crazyb0 12-26-1951 to 7-27-2020
In Memory of Tootallious 3-31-1964 to 4-15-2020
In Memory of T-BOP 10-12-1949 to 1-19-2024
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Rest in Peace
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Onyx yes these are token issued by a private mint. Most likely they are a set of president or some other group. I didn't see on the faces of the coin any indication of metal composition. I suspect it is a plated type, and not a silver bullion issue as a 1 oz. round would be. The COA (certificate) is just to certify that this coin came from American Mint, it means nothing else but is mostly a sale/advertising gimmick patterning after the real Certificates used by the US Mint and other precious metal Assayers(manufacturers) to certify bullion metal content (gold/silver/platinum). Worth of these sets is limited to what one will pay for them. There are those who collect these tokens/medals.
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United States
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to CCF. American Mint sounds like a private company. What you have is most likely medallions of some sort.You would need to research that company. You may have silver medals or even just plated ones. If silver, thay are most likely only worth silver value on the retail market. The collection is worth more to you as a "family value" because you have inherited it,right? My condolences to you. Hope you stay around and ask as many questions as you need to. John1  |
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Rest in Peace
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Tokens, especially very new tokens, may not have much value unless they are silver. If they are silver they are commonly called rounds but they would be marked for silver in the round, which this one does not have.
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United States
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to the CCF  Check the rounds for metal content i.e .999 silver. |
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United States
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to the Community! |
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United States
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Were there any silver dollars in the collection?
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To the Forum. |
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