5 dollar and 2.5 dollar gold helphelp

I call BS. No way do these sell for $250 (unless listing errors, buy it now price with an uninformed seller, etc). I still say show me examples.

 

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I say they are probably real. But the worn condition puts them in the melt category, but worth the chance just to stack/stash some gold. I bought a $5 Indian awhile back from a guy that needed money. It looked like it had been in a necklace bezel. I offered him $250 for it. He was happy.

 

Which is the reason I purchased them when he lowered to $425. Melt on them is $385 so I was afraid if I left them, somebody would swoop in and grab them, I was ok with the $40 over melt. I must say, I do have a glimmer of hope that the $2.50 looks a little better when I get it!

 

I'd say from those pics the $2 1/2 could make AU

 

I was at an Allentown, PA bid board auction (write down your bids on a paper attached to a showcase) where I watched a $2-1/2 Indian go for under melt early in 2015. Yes, it's not under Jan. 3, 2016 melt, but it was then. There were scads of rarer dates nearby and this poor lonely two-and-a-half got ignored. I used to snag lots of silver pieces either under or just around melt regularly there. In rural Pennsylvania, unlike obviously other areas, locals drop out once melt has been significantly passed at auction. There's too much else still coming later. No shortage of silver OR gold at about melt. I could buy silver steadily at UNDER melt at my local coin club auction, if I cared about bullion, which I don't, because I'm certain melt will be even lower in six months.

Side note: Gold Indians just MIGHT be the toughest coins to grade that there are, especially so from a picture.

 

Those pictures aren't really good enough IMO to tell if they're real or fake. Not a huge risk at $40 above melt, since even fakes are typically made of real gold, but I'm not sure I would have gone for it.