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LinkBack Thread Tools Rate Thread Display Modes 01-08-2009, 06:30 PM   #1 (permalink) Logger Junior Member   Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Olympic Mountains Washington Posts: 17 My Mood: 1968 Mexican 25 peso Olympic Struck to commemorate the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, each of these 25 Peso coins features the Olympic symbol and an Aztec dancer on the obverse, while the reverse shows an Eagle design most often seen on Mexican coinage. Each is struck in .7200 fine silver and contains .5209 ounces of pure silver. Any thoughts as to what this is worth and where i can market some of these? Inherited a few of these. Attached Images      01-08-2009, 08:36 PM   #2 (permalink) willieboyd2 First Class User     Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: California Posts: 532 They are very common and only worth what the silver in them is. __________________ Check out my website at: http://www.brianrxm.com Roman Coins, Mexican Coins, Favorite Coins, Movie Coins The San Francisco Mint 1949 Mexico Peso Restrike   01-08-2009, 11:20 PM   #3 (permalink) Logger Junior Member   Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Olympic Mountains Washington Posts: 17 My Mood: Value of 1968 Mexican Olympic 25 peso coin Are you suggesting that these are only worth .5209 ounce x spot price (approx $11.00 a few minutes ago) or $5.73 ea??? Think i'll hang on to them for a while (maybe forever)! Melt them down...or something! Maybe i didn't mention that these are uncirculated in plastic bubble wraps...somehow don't think that would make a difference in your valuation. Someone had them on Coinbug for $C20.   01-08-2009, 11:22 PM   #4 (permalink) Logger Junior Member   Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Olympic Mountains Washington Posts: 17 My Mood: 25 peso mexican coins Sorry to sound so sceptical...probably because i was expecting much more. Need to reevaluated what i am going to do with these coins. Thanks anyway!   01-08-2009, 11:45 PM   #5 (permalink) jaceravone Member     Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: United States of America Posts: 3,378 My Mood: Hey Logger, I just went on a couple of world coin web sites and most of them were selling this coin between $8-10. I have bought a couple of these at my local coin shop for no more than $5. Good luck. __________________ "These are the times that try men's' souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph." Thomas Paine, Intro to the The Crisis, December 19, 1776   01-09-2009, 12:26 AM   #6 (permalink) desertgem Senior Errer Collecktor     Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 2,492 My Mood: Logger, In another thread, you mentioned types 1,2,3 so I assumed you had all 3 types. Type 3 ( serpent tongue modified) is much rarer than type 2 ( low center ring ) than type 1 normal ( common) position of center ring. If you do decide to offer them yourself, you might group them , one of each type. Here on the border of Mexico they come into the gold/silver exchange often as bullion, some still in rolls. They are checked for varieties in the store as one of the clerks is a foreign coin collector. Jim   01-09-2009, 09:30 AM   #7 (permalink) willieboyd2 First Class User     Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: California Posts: 532 I have a few still in the plastic wrappers too, I was planning to sell them on Ebay, so I looked up the values in Krause Publications "Standard Catalog of World Coins". I went by what the Krause catalog says about them being worth only bullion value. __________________ Check out my website at: http://www.brianrxm.com Roman Coins, Mexican Coins, Favorite Coins, Movie Coins The San Francisco Mint 1949 Mexico Peso Restrike   01-10-2009, 12:09 PM   #8 (permalink) Logger Junior Member   Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Olympic Mountains Washington Posts: 17 My Mood: 1968 Mexican coins Hey Jim...you are right on. This collection did have type1, 2, and 3 coins. Seems they should have some value over the type 1s. Dad was sure these coins would be of more value (he probably paid that much for them back when). Really hate to part with them for bullion value. 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