Anyone can tell me the value of my coins???

Ok, another pic with measurement. It's 40mm in diameter.

 

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Sorry, they all seemed to be countefeited. It doesn't matter how long the coins your grandfather had, or whom had it - counterfeited coins exist from the very day such coins are released. The real problem with most early US silver dollar coins especially the trade dollar coins are heavily, as in HEAVILY counterfeited. If you don't wish to believe us, by all means send them to a coin authetification company for verification.

 

Thanks Roy...ok, got your point.

 

I took these pictures myself. :whistle:

 

Thanks....

 

Here's something you could do. Go to http://coins.heritageauctions.com/ and register. It's free. Then search their auction archives for the coins in question. You will find very good pictures of what these coins should look like.

 

For more information about trade dollars specifically, look here: http://www.tradedollarnut.com/

 

The first few pics are added with text as I am not really sure of any legal implications for re-producing in digital formats. I asked and nobody answers my question to that.

Anyway, my next pic with measurement does not have any text on it.

 

Thanks brother :high5:

 

Now that I have looked at the pictures from http://coins.heritageauctions.com...I believe they are counterfeited. I learned my lesson well. Thanks to all of you.

Sorry for some of my nasty replies. They have been kept for many years and so I thought they were real.

Anyway, thanks!

 

I say you keep your coins and dont apologize for what happened, it was a great lesson to be learned about coins. Counterfeits are only going to be tougher to discern in the future.

 

Hey guys, how about verifing these for me as well? They're unpolished too...

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BACK

 

Thanks. :hatch:

 

counterfeits...I hate them

Thanks GDJMSP, you're really good in coins. What collection do you have? Where can I browse people's collection?

 

Counterfeits occur in any world coinages, regardless of denomination. The lowest face value counterfeited that I have in my collection is probably Chinese 1 yuan or Malaysian 20 sen, which are both roughly 12 cents.

Appearently if counterfeiting 12 cents are "profitable", trade dollars or something more valuable is definately more likely to be prone to such counterfeits.

 

Hey sgcoins, you actually came out ok in this as you did not spend your hard earned cash only to learn that you purchased a counterfeit coin. A lesson that more than a couple of us have learned the hard way.

Now when or if you do go to purchase coins you will allready be aware of the existence of forgeries. And although it takes quite some time to be able to spot a counterfeit right away at least you now know that they are out there.

Did you get left any other US coins of lower denominations? Such as 10, 5 or 1 cent coins. In general those are far more likely to be genuine.