Coins Found. What Are They Worth?

Let's not forget the rest of the pennies, either. Depending on the mint marks of the 1920, the rest have a book value of upto about 10,000 in total. Could buy a good second hand car for that too.

Steve.

Sorry to spoil the party Mattski, but the '30 penny looks like a forgery. The "0" of "1930" is wider and more round in the real McCoy.... However, it does look like a nice fake and if u can get $500 for it, that's not too bad a price, considering how good and cheap current fakes are selling for on ebay.
Best wishes with your collecting and welcome to the forum !


P.S Check the "0" of the date of the coin in my avatar for comparison.

The 1930 penny is a very poor forgery, possibly cast rather than struck and quite a recent invention. I have seen some of them offered recently on ebay.

I have images and a discussion on my website.

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Now this is not on....thanks for bringing it to our attention t_s_p.

I have sent the seller an email, to remove our names and opinions from his auction immediatly.

i have also email ebay.

Please accept my apologies. I realise everyone was just trying to be helpful. It is unfortunate these days that we have to be very wary of some individuals. Consider that the accepted figure for the number of 1930 pennies minted varies from the high hundreds up to 3,000. If we take the upper limit and since the total number of pennies minted was about 750 million, the chances of a given penny being a genuine 1930 is 1 in 250,000. So what is the chance of finding a genuine 1930 penny in a small bag of coins.....?

Here is a revised version of that listing....

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/1930-Austral...cmdZViewItem


Mattski, may I suggest that you try and put the words "Fake" in larger and bolder front early in your listing to minimise chances of any misunderstadings with potential buyers.

Also, to use selective quotes such as :


"Looks like the real deal"

"Could be worth thousands if genuine"

"What a find!!"

"Looks like the real thing to me"



...in your listing only serves to discredit you. It seems that you are basically taking advantage of help on this forum to mislead inexperienced buyers into thinking that somehow this coin may indeed be genuine and bid it up accordingly.

You have firstly taken things out of context by using our words of encouragement; to a newby in the world of numismatics; and turning it into support for your ebay ad, aimed at possibly deceiving other newbies.

More importantly, you have betrayed the invaluable help and support that other forum members have tried to provide, and that is not a always a good start, especially if you are here to learn.

Finally, a word of advice. It is the consensus of many that private listings on ebay only serves to ring alarm bells as to the legitimacy of the bidding.....just my 2 cents.

Even the screen shots were edited.

Here is another one of his auctions.

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Become-an-In...cmdZViewItem
Please delete this link if you think it is offensive.

I didn't know that this guy was the same character.