Hello All, I Am New To Stamp And Coin Collecting And Have A Quick Question (1935 Nickel)

i cant speak to the DDR as the closeup photo is just to out of focus however the coin would grade imo VG details (cleaned)

at VG details the coin, regardless if was in fact, either of the varieties of DDR, would not warrant the cost of having it graded

I see offsets in Five Cents. DDR-001? Can't see anything in USA or EPU though.

Ebw1969, welcome and enjoy.

I would suggest, as a first step, that you separate the coins by denomination (1 cent, five cent, dimes, etc); and then by type ( Lincoln Wheat cent, Lincoln Memorial cent, Buffalo nickel, Jefferson nickel, etc.). Next, organize by date and then Mint Mark. For Mint Mark you will need to find where it is for a given issue and period (eg. on Washington quarters, the Mint Mark was originally on the reverse and was changed to the obverse in 1968. In addition, the Philadelphia Mint mark originally was no mint mark, referred to as "Plain." Later as a P).

Hope this helps.

Enjoy!!!

with your new photos I would agree with CoinHunter27 on the DDR. nice find especially for someone not versed in collecting. however the coins grade and what appears to be a cleaning the value is not there to have it professionally graded

I'm just guessing here on value but if the coin grades VG details (cleaned) its probably a $35-40 tops. to have it graded at PCGS and authenticated for DDR is going to exceed the value of the coin.

when you bring in bags of coins or even sets to a dealer they are not going to sit there and assess every coin. they will probably looks quickly at the sets or individual coins for keys and semi-keys and all the rest they are not really going to grade but just give you overall value that they feel they can sell them and make a profit. to get max value can take a while to assess every coin and they are not going to do that.

if you have the time and learn what you have then separate them like Freespeech57 stated. put them in a spreadsheet. I would then go to http://www.numismedia.com/fmv/fmv.shtml and just get a feel for which ones have anything more than a nominal value. highlight those and then when you are done take those and post the better ones here to have them assessed.

there are folks on this site who probably would be interested in some if not all of your coins at probably a better price than a dealer would pay but they need to be inventoried first to know what you have