I'm twelve and I only collect wheats, lincolns, and others but nothing like indian cents or whatever the first pic is.
Very nice....... Keep up the good work and remember, always ask questions when in doubt to expand your knowledge.
They are worth a lot. You will always treasure your first coins. Don't ever sell them. I like the coins in the second picture down. Where are those cents from?
Great coins and welcome to Coin Talk! If you like Lincolns, you are going to find yourself right at home here. There are many Lincoln collectors here including myself.
Beautiful coins , you have a lovely collection . Did you ever think of putting the coins in some sort of protection like 2X2 cardboard holders ? rzage
That's great advice about putting them in 2x2 holders. Also, you may already know this, but never clean your coins! I know it's tempting sometimes, but it will only ruin any value they have.
Nice collection. You've got some nice Indians, few early dates, too. I see an 1879, 1880, 1862?, 1864?, and a 1876. The 1876 is just one year from the famous key date, 1877! When looking at Indian's, look for 1864 with the "L" on the ribbon, 1877, 1908-S, and 1909-S. They all command quit a premium. The 1877 and 1909-S are pretty expensive. I've only managed to collect the 1908-S. All though I'd love to find an 1877 in my price range. But that will be a while, I just purchased a Matte Proof Lincoln cent (extremely scarce) for over a thousand. Keep up the good work!
What do you mean? I can't tell if his coins are genuine or fake, pictures aren't close enough. But he has a good start. If you're talking about my Matte Proof, I purchased that at a coin show in a PCGS PR-64 RB slab.
Those are two British Pennies, they were struck with that reverse style up through the 1960s, until Britain decimalized it's currency. If you like them, PM me and I will be more than happy to give you one or two if you don't have any. I am surprised, yet happy, to see so many young collectors. Welcome to Cointalk.
I'm 12 too, looks like you have some nice coins! In that condition , that 1867 is worth around $60-$70, if it is the 7 over 7 varitey , it would be worth about $145. Now I need an Indian Collector to post a pic. Like Coinguy said , watch for those keys!
Well, if I had bought a bunch of gold 10 years ago when I was 16, I would be doing pretty well right now..... at least you are into coin collecting now. 14 is still young to start collecting, I only picked wheats out of change when I found them when I was that age, just because they were different and I only rarely got them in change, I knew nothing about them. My dad had given me some buffalo nickels and such when I was young and I was interested for a bit in US coins, but had no way or means of adding to my collection as a young kid in Southern Arizona.... I didn't become much of a collector untill I discovered my local coin shop a bit later on, and started to see all sorts of interesting World Coins and the likes, and talk about them with people. More recently I ended up working for an elderly man who was born in 1910, he was 96 when I started taking care of him, he graduated from Oxford in the 1930's, and he had later been a professor of the Classics at Princeton here in the states. He used a binder that he had full of pages that held coins, from Ancient Greece, through the Roman Empire, Middle Ages, and up to the time of the American Revolution to let the students hold the history they were being taught in their hand, he would take the coins out and pass them around the room. He got me even more interested in World coins and Ancient coins especially, and ended up giving me quite a few nice coins that I treasure to this day. ( the one below isn't one from him, just one of my favorites and most beautiful from my personal collection of Ancient Roman silver coins.) Enjoy your collecting.
unfortuately the british pennies you have are very very common and worth only about 5 pence but we all have to start somewhere and you have the start of a good collection.
send me your address by personal message and i will send you some UK coins. for free. if i can help a new young collector then i am only to happy, i have been collecting since i was 8 and that is almost 50 years ago,
