Hi could anybody tell me what the vaule on about 50 5cents coins the dates are 1860-1920 .They has all been clean what do lose per coin .THEY LOOK TO BE FINE TO VERY FINE. THANK YOU :smile
Depends on the dates really....if they are cleaned they lose 50% or more of their value.. there are also collectors like me who won't even buy a cleaned coin (except the one I have for my problem set..just to get knowledge) stainless
Santa, How do you know they were cleaned? Did you clean them? How were they cleaned? [dipped, whizzed] Are they lightly cleaned or harshly cleaned? Can you post a few photos of the coins? The impact on value varies a lot with the precise condition of the coins. An enormous number of 19th century coins have been cleaned, and the effect on value varies with how they have been treated.
WELCOME TO THE FORUM. I presume you mean about 50 Nickels. From 1860 to 1920 would make some of them priceless you know. Any Nickels you have with dates from 1860 to 1865 are extreamely rare since the first Nickel was a Shield Nickel in 1866. Pending the dates and grades some are very expensive if they have dates like 1880, 1881 and really watch for a Liberty Head Nickel dated 1913. That one is worth a few hundred dollars.:smile:whistle: For real, since the above is kind of a joke, please list what you have in the way of a description. Include the dates and what you think the condition of the coins are. Some of the ones after 1912 may have the first letter of the Mint where the coins were made on the reverse, back side of the coin. Those are normally on the bottom and would appear as a D or S. What you may want to do, since there are so many and listing each one individually would take up a lot of time and space is to try some of the on line web sites that have a coin price listing such as the PCGS web site.
Cleaning coins they has been all dug up . They are all canadian coins .They are from metal detecting :smile
Take pictures of the best ones , pitted or damaged coins are worth much less than just cleaned coins , also welcome to CT . rzage
