Hi everyone, I would appreciate your help on identifying some US coins that were stolen from our home in a robbery. I had received them in an inheritance and looked at them a few times but cannot remember them exactly. I did find a Guarantee of Authenticity paper from Numismatic Investments of New England but not sure how to identify their “DEMON” codes for the coins or what they are made of. The headings are SER#; DENOM; DATE; DESC; Grade. (I’m not a big coin collector) I have listed the info below(I have not included the serial number- not sure of its importance, if it is, let me know): DEMON DATE DESC GRADE LBN 1906 Proof-65 BFN 1913 TYPE-1 MS-65 MG$ 1885-O MS-65 GSG 1924 MS-63 COM 1934-D OREGON MS-64 COM 1936-D SAN DIEGO MS-65 I would really appreciate anyone’s help. Thanks, rw
Check with any local coin shops in your area and make them aware of this list that you've put together. Also, check on ebay to see if someone is selling the coins you've listed. Technically, they are not supposed to appear as graded coins on ebay because they are not an accepted grading company but the "Numismatic Investments of New England" might appear in the item description. Sorry this has happened to you.
I appreciate your kind responses. The police did find 2 of our rings in a pawn shop. I gave the list above to the police but I not sure they know(nor do I) the "DEMON" codes that are on the list. Do you know what LBN, BFN, GSG are initials for? I think the "MG$" stands for the Morgan Silver dollar. Thanks for your help, rw
In order you have - 1906 Liberty nickel - PF65 1913 Buffalo nickel type 1 - MS65 1885-O Morgan dollar - MS65 1924 St. Gaudens $20 gold - MS63 1934-D Oregon Commemorative half dollar - MS64 1936-D San Diego Commemorative half dollar - MS65 To a large extent the thing that determines the value is the grade of each coin. The grade is the number I listed at the end. But, the grades may be accurate or inaccurate. I can't say which because I know nothing about the grading ability of the company who graded them, namely Numismatic Investments of New England. But, at least you now know what the coins are.
Thank you so much GDJMSP. I will pass along the information to the police and keep my fingers crossed. Thank you and bless you! rw
Good luck. However, the descriptions of the coins are so vague that identifying them would be near impossible unless there were other evidence associated with the coins.
Smart burglar would break them out and sell them raw to remove the taint of stolen with ID verification.
I want thank you everyone for your help and suggestions. Just as a heads-up, check your insurance policy. The normal insurance policies will not bring you to back to “even”. Most policies will cover you $1000 max. for money, bullion, gold, silver, platinum, coins, medals, etc. combined. $1500 for jewelry, watches, precious and semi-precious stones, combined. I am not “rich” but after 36 years of marriage, things add up. When we bought or wedding rings (which they also took at gun point in our home at 3am in the morning), gold was $150/oz., it will take a lot more today to replace it. Take pictures of everything and keep a hard copy hidden on and off premises (they took all our computers too). It is hard for the police to read on our stolen items report that they are looking for a gold, single diamond wedding ring in a pawn shop (really, how many rings could fit that description. Our fault, not theirs.). Hind-site is always 20/20. Just a suggestion, I do not wish this to happen to anyone. Hopefully they will recover some of our things. God bless you all and thank you for your help. rw
