This first coin is an 1894 quarter dollar I think? The next one is a nickel but it has no year and it looks like a black soldier from who knows when. Can I just get an opinion if these 2 coins are worth anything, and also I have 35 silver half dollars ranging from 1966 up to 1998, can I get an estimate on those too? Thanks!
The nickel was hand carved and is called a hobo nickel which yours isnt to detailed so not worth a whole lot. Maybe $15. 1944 dime is worth $3.
Well the nickel is a buffalo nickel, but has been carved to look like there is a hobo on the front. They are very collectable. We need to see the reverse of the first coin to determine the grade value and the denomination. Silver halfs are from up to 1970. 1964 is 90% silver and 65-70 are 40% silver. The mercury dime is worth 3-4 dollars
The top one is generally valued at the silver value. The Hobo nickel is very subjective in value but i love it. Ruben
The 1894 quarter, or Barber quarter so called after the designer Charles E. Barber, is worth silver melt, at the current spot price of $27.86 that comes to $5.04. The Buffalo nickel, designed by James E. Fraser, was released in 1913 and ended in 1938 when the Jefferson nickel design was released, has been hand carved into a hobo nickel, not much value there. You mentioned the 36 silver halves from 1966 -1998. Silver was used in the Kennedy half dollar series beginning in 1964 with the last of the 90% silver coins, and 40% silver clads from 1965 - 1970. After 1970, silver was used in half dollars in proof sets, and there were silver Kennedys produced for the bicentennial dual-date coins, in the proof sets and I think the uncirculated sets from the Mint. So the ones from 1970 to 1975 are copper-nickel clad. In 1992, silver was used in the collector set Kennedy halves, in proof only. The proof coins will have the S mint mark on the obverse, or front, of the coin, under Kennedy's neck.
