Heart attack coin!

A buddy of mine has asked me to peruse his coin “collection” to see if there’s anything interesting. I’m far from the expert who should be looking but thought it would be fun to see what he had.

instead of an organized collection he brought out 2 heavy duty duffle bags. I noticed he was straining a bit and when I picked them up I found one weighs about 50 pounds and the other 30. All coins plus a number of paper bills.

my buddy who is pushing 80 said he’s been collecting coins since a kid and many of these came from his father. There’s also a number of mint sets too.

the first batch I checked were all well circulated clad coins. But now I’m venturing into “the good stuff”. Lots of silver halves, quarters, and dimes. Barbers, Mercs and roosies. Vnickels and war nickels. Wheat pennies.

There is a bag of foreign coins. I separated the silvers from the coppers and there are Reales, shillings, pounds, pesos, pfennigs and some I can’t identify. The oldest are a 1793 Reale , which somebody stamped with H.M. WHITEBECK CIRCUS, AND a 1764 20 Kreuzer, which is in very good shape.

I also found 2 Of the first US commemorative coins for the World’s Columbian Exposition at the 1893 Worlds Fair. These were half dollars specially stamped for the occasion. Reportedly they did not sell well since few people wanted to pay a dollar for a half dollar coin.

And I’m not even half way through.

But that’s not what this post is about.

I was scanning the Mercury dimes and thought I had found a 1941/2. I came to a screeching halt and ran to my microscope for a closer look. Rats, foiled again.

 

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Fun stuff!.... You gotta wonder if somebody was really trying to fool somebody with that 42 dime.

Edit.... I find it rather disturbing that I received an email from Ebay minutes after viewing this post advertising 42/41 Mercs.

 

Interesting group! What fun! BTW the coin isn't a 1793 Reale, it's two reales (2 bits, a quarter).

 

Expert or not, I'd drool heavily if I had an opportunity like you do. You can divide possible valuable coins from everyday face value, and then let him decide how to proceed.
Let us know if you find any more really interesting coins.

 

Boy that would’ve fun to go through. One look and I can see why you almost had a heart attack.

 

the term bit came from cutting an 8 Reale (and you’re correct, I should have been more specific in calling it a 2 Reale) into 8 pieces. Each 1/8th was called a bit and 2 bits did equal a quarter

 

What did eBay say??

 

It was just an EBay email with links to all their 42/41 Mercs.