Hello! I'm new here, so please don't be too offended by my ignorance! I recently discovered my late Grandmother's coin collection, and there's all sorts of cool stuff in it. I don't know the first thing about coin collecting, so I thought I'd start here to see if any of them were worth anything. Most are international and from the 20th century. I'd really like some advice as to how to organize and catalog everything, especially the ones that contain no roman lettering nor arabic numerals (as in, un-Google-able) As far as US coins, some Morgan Dollars from the 1880s and some Liberty dollars from the 1920s are the only ones that stood out. Here's some pics of some cool looking German coins to start with, I would dearly love to know what I could get for these:
The middle coin is a 1936 5 Mark from Nazi Germany, carries the face of von Hindenburg, the president of Germany until 1934, after which he was succeeded by Adolf Hitler. I believe that mintmark is an A, making it pretty common. It's worth between $10-$15. Others can weigh in on the other two coins.
Okay! Here's the one that I think may actually be the most valuable. Sorry about messing up my previous posts, I can't figure out how to edit attachments.
That's a good one! There were a few sold at auction recently: http://www.coinarchives.com/w/results.php?search=goethe&s=0&results=100
I had assumed that those were from the mint, to get the weight right. Is that a thing? Or is it just randomly scratched?
Nice coins. I would recommend getting them appraised by a coin dealer. Also you could try some coin shows. If your looking to sell these and any are rare i would look into selling them at a auction (NOT EBAY) I say that because people are touchy. They want to look at it in person before they buy. Also if any are worth more than 1,000$ i would auction at a bigger auction company for max payout.
The 1770 piece is a Bavarian (Germany) Thaler. I recently sold a similar piece for $150 if I remember right.
It seems like all of those are German. Bayern became part of Germany when it incorporated and kept minting its own coins up until the First World War. You might want to check out a Krause catalog at your local library for the coins with the non-roman numerals. The front of the book has a handy conversion chart for deciphering Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Hebrew, and a few other numerical systems.
the top coin is a bavarian 5 marks you are right the 1932 goethe 5 reichsmark is indeed the most valuable, i would estimate it at about $200
