Junk bin find, what is it?

I found this in a junk bin for 50 cents. i pulled it out because it felt like silver. i think it may be from nepal or tibet, but no idea on how old it may be.

 

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Nepal 2006 (1949) Rupee, .333 SILVER!

 

I think this interesting also right answer.

 

Nice find =)

 

My fingers only find me cupro-nickle coins.

 

I got 7 80% silver dime sized 1936 and 1929 Nicaragua 10 centavos. I told the guy, these look silver, are they? He said, they are cupro-nickle but still nice coins. A week later I found more, totaling to seven. What's not to beat at 25 cents each?

 

How do you not know what kind of coins you have? Hope he doesn't own a coin shop.

 

He does, He deals with US coins and throws common foreign coins in a bucket labeled, "25 cents". Now he keeps the bucket secret until I get chance to see it because he will throw in rare coins just for me, those seven coins though were overlooked.

I have found tons of Canada large cents with some nice quality early 1800's Provence bank tokens not photographed, well over 100 Canada Large cents, they are almost all Queen Victoria


Hundreds of old English copper coins dating for the very early 1800's to the 1930's with most being Queen Victoria coppers from the second half of the 1800's though I have found some early 1840's young head coppers


I love the other old coins from various countries too such as medieval cash coins from 900ad-1300ad and some newer 1600ad to 1900ad Q'ing cash. Some nice early 1800's stuff like an 1805 Hibernia Halfpenny and a 1792 French copper coin. I have buckets full of old copper coins from him, everything at 25 cents.

Also, I still do not know what this is, he threw it in even though it's not a coin, just for me.

 

Pretty neat coins, thanks for sharing the photos!

 

I find silver coins almost every time I look through dealer's junk bins. It doesn't happen much with larger coins but dime or nickel size coins are often overlooked, especially if they are dirty.

 

So then I have to ask - IF it's illegal to melt pennies (cents) then how is it legal to melt silver coins like the Pawn Stars quote in their shows all of the times??

 

Simple. They haven't made a law against it!

(wait, I guess you're really asking *why* they don't have a law against melting the other types of coins? In that case I have no idea.)

 

I can't speak to that because I'm talking foreign coins and there's no law against melting those. Dealers usually intend to separate out the silver coins but there are just so many types and many are lower percentages of silver, so people who don't know a lot about the different series can miss the silver coins.

 

The silver coins are obsolete.

 

Only silver I have found in a dealers bin was an old 20 centavos from the Philippines.