Im new to this coin thing. i have collected baseball cards with my father, and now he has found alot of new hobbies and coins the top one. so i'd like to find out as much as possible. See my father found a 1907 (mcmvii) St. Gauden walking Liberty coin and when i was looking it up i found that there are mini and large coins, and couldn't find any discription on size. so if you may know the sizes that would be very helpfull. thank you all. Read more: http://www.cointalk.com/members/coinfinder06/#ixzz0laXf06Em
Designer Augustus St. Gaudens, was one of the premier American sculptors. Pres. Theodore Roosevelt imposed up him to redesign the nations coinage. St. Gaudens work on the $20 gold piece is one of the most extrodinary works of American art on any coin. Only 12, 367 were ever made in 1907. They are 21mm wide, by 4mm deep. They contain 90 parts gold, 3 parts silver, and 7 parts copper. If you post some pics of this coin we can give you an idea of grade.
Welcome to the forum. The U.S. mint has produced, pure gold bullion coins with the same St. Gaudens obverse as the old $20 gold piece that were produced back in 1907 to 1933. They've produced these pure gold bullion coins since 1986 to present, in 1/10th oz., 1/4, 1/2 and 1 oz. versions, all varying in size. The original St. Gaudens double eagle, $20 gold pieces are 90% gold, 10% copper composition as most all of the other gold coins were in the past. That would be 0.9675 oz. of pure gold in an original $20 gold piece. That being said, what do you mean by your dad just 'found' a 1907 St. Gaudens with Roman numerals? I hate to burst your bubble but in all likelihood, it is a fake as they are very rare and worth around $10,000 and up. Not something that you're likely to just find laying around as somebody at some point would know what it was. The first thing you need to learn is that there are many, many fakes and replicas across all coin types. Especially of rarer coins as many people like to collect them as novelty pieces. And especially of gold coins. Some are meant to fool people. The fakes and replicas are not just limited to rarer coins anymore though either, so you really need to know what you're doing before you start spending money. Always temper your expectations when finding rarities with pontentially very high values. Many people go nuts when they find these fakes and end up looking like fools. The main producer of replicas is China and they've sent millions over here with no replica stamps on them.
WELCOME TO THE FORUMMMMMMMMMMMMM I suggest you have your Dad look into purchasing a copy of a coin book. The Red Book by Whitman Publishing is probably the most commonly used one by many millions of people. If you want to save a few dollars have him look for last years edition since not much changes each year.
Well , you got me with that "read more" link coinfinder. Guiness is definitely a wonderful thing. Welcome to the forum old fellow......
well he found it with a metal detector at an old broken down school house. and i am trying to find out as much as possible before he make a fool of himself. lol. i am going to put up a picture here soon but thank you very much for your help so far.
If that's the case, than that would be one of the best metal detecting finds I've ever heard of and I've read a lot of them! I hope it is real. That would be awesome. Please post some pics if you ever get a chance.
Don't throw it away. LOL It just might be real. Where in that old school house did he find it ? This is all to cool. I hope it is real. What kind of shape is it in ? Can't be bad if you can read the Roman Numerals.
Well so far i've only got thats it to big to be real. except for one guy that collects replicas and said they never heard of a two inch in dia. replica. so i'm so far thinking it might be a fake.
lol. i'm going to be putting a couple of pictures up this week so maybe i can get some better insight. but thank you for your chat.
