My wife just inherited a boat load of Asian coins what's the best way to get a value on them?

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Ding ding ding!! Do this!! I'm sure they would love to see the stuff and can give you some prices on them!!!

 

WOW.

Haven't seen this kind of collection for a while. While some coins are not genuine, a good portion are!

This is easily a few thousand dollars. Some coins are quite scarce. Well done! Don't let others talk the price down

 

You should definitely go if you get the chance. Several people from this forum will be there (me included for one full day only though). It's an amazing show.

Edited to add: this group is having a meeting on Saturday IIRC...I've never attended one but hope to some day. Sadly I could not stay long enough this year. Oh well. In any case, if you are feeling bold you might crash their meeting and ask an opinion. Likely the initial response would be 'who is this guy' but if you whip out some of this interesting material someone there may be able to refer you to a good resource.

This is extensive enough and fascinating enough that if either you or your wife have any slight inkling it could be fun it's a great collection to get started with!

http://orientalnumismaticsociety.org/

 

Thomas: I do not collect Chinese coins. Rather like @Stork and several others I collect Japanese coins and am able to read Japanese. I would recommend that you study some of your Chinese coins on the website https://en.numista.com/catalogue/china-1.html before visiting any numismatist. Just having some knowledge is significantly better than going in cold. There are several forum members here that specialize in Korean, Japanese and Chinese coins as well as south Asia. They will certainly be of great help. If you have questions try to take a decent picture of both sides of the coin and place it here. You will get a fair and honest assessment. If you do live in the NE USA I will give you the names of the dealers/appraiser via PM that are attending the NYINC who would specialize in the area. Good luck.

 

thanks that would be appreciated.

 

Welcome to Coin Talk....

and...what is sucky about finding Greek, Hungarian and other coins??? I am having biggish fun just reading the thread!!

 

What sucks is the volume & ignorance I have of world coins to much to digest. It's all to overwhelming!

 

I've been reading some of the links sent by members(thank you). Chinese coins are still crazy to me. Coins look alike but sell for vastly different amounts.

 

I think I have a coin worth over 1000 dollars. I will post it. Opinions please.
Tom

 

Oh, I'm not doing anything right now, have to get a handle on it. Taking baby steps for now.
I have alot more to post, but I'm not getting any replies for what I already posted.
Tom

 

Yes, I noticed that... I can't really help you as these coins are not my speciality (South Korea), but they are fascinating nonetheless to look at!

I've seen posts similar to this one here at CoinTalk swarmed with responses (I remember that Ansei Trade Dollar post a few years back was just a beehive of activity). Not this time, though. I'm not sure why...

If you can make it to the International Numismatic Convention held in New York City at the Grand Hyatt from Friday, January 17 to Sunday the 19th, you would be better served. Bring some of your pieces and see if you can ask around about getting an appraisal (or two) for your whole collection. You will have to pay for the appraisals, so first ask around from dealers on what you can expect for prices for such an appraisal. I would guess that approach would be best, and it would give you a firm handle on what you have, and what values you have. THEN you can think about how to store the coins, have them professionally graded if you like, and you can decide what to do with them from there.

I've never had an appraisal done on anything before, so if anyone else here knows more about this than me, please speak up...

 

Soooooo true! Nothing we love more than finding new coins from new countries.

 

@Thomas Kirby: I just sent you a PM with details on the NY International Numismatic Show. I looked at the dealer roster and saw at least four that know Chinese and Japanese coins. As for Korean I just don't know who to reach out to other than @mlov43 on this forum. The dealer roster can be found on http://www.nyinc.info/dealers.php.

 

That coin is beautiful. I know nothing about it. I sure hope someone comes in and tells us about it.

 

A lot of coins are genuine. Fat man dollar coins in general are easily one hundred dollars in xf condition so you can imagine how much that page alone is worth.

That said there are some fantasies in the lot. While the collection may have been bought in the 1950s, counterfeits have existed since then. This is not a lot to rush unless you need to raise some funds immediately. My first impression is that more than 80% are genuine which is positive. That said, I do not claim to be the expert in Chinese coins.

While in many situations I would advise coins to be slabbed for authenticity, the holders do hold some interesting information.

Please feel free to post Hong Kong, Japanese and Korean coinage - that's more of my forte.

 

Yeah, it caught my attention, too!

Somebody was selling one of these (possibly counterfeit) One Tael "Minguo Double Flag Commemorative Silver" coins at ebay. The seller pulled it.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/37-G-Chinese-Minguo-Double-Flag-One-Tael-Commemorative-Silver-Coin-100-Silver-/283551565343?nma=true&si=lkS2%2BUx6Wp%2FA2s1bq6AUqoYgW6w%3D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

 

Holy s*** This has to be a forgery! Hu poo pattern coin 1903 1 tael. Auctioned at stack Bowers for 250,000 dollars. Here's my picture. M

 

Maybe you're going to get lucky.

I'm not an expert with these, but that extra 'ridge' on the outside edge of the obverse (dragon side of the coin) rim is suspect. The PCGS graded one here (https://www.pcgs.com/news/pcgs-certifies-amazing-1903-pattern-tael) doesn't match.