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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;nMarauder, post: 1094411, member: 29091&quot;]Greetings! I&#039;m so glad there is a place like this to ask questions for people like me, who stumbles upon a coin in the attic, apparently locked in a trunk for the last 100 years.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m fairly sure it is authentic. It&#039;s tiny, and it has a provenance with it, stating that it was brought back from California by the grandfather of a cousin who was growing up in the early 1900s. Her grandfather is confirmed in California in 1873 so this coin would have been contemporary.</p><p><br /></p><p>Please excuse the quality of the photo because I&#039;ve never shot something so little. It looks much darker than it really is - the gold shines brilliantly in the light. If necessary, I can dig out a tripod and do a little more work with the camera to get it better.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]109294.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]109293.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I know decent fractional pieces have great value. My question is whether the hole is normal, and how much will it effect the value? It was threaded onto a thin gold wire which was twisted to keep the coin from floating away I imagine, and kept in an envelope in that trunk since possibly the 1920s, but probably much earlier.</p><p><br /></p><p>Any thoughts?</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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