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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GH#75, post: 24630724, member: 101202&quot;]Oh boy, this was an interesting coin collection...</p><p>This is a collection from a man who recently passed away. It was my friends grandpa, and I offered to give them a value on the coins that he had been stockpiling. I didn&#039;t know what to expect, but I was hoping the coins would be interesting or worth something decent.</p><p>I was given a small leather bag Which I was told contained all the coins. Not as big as I had imagined but nonetheless, I opened it and found it packed to the brim with little bags containing no more than one coin each.</p><p>I pulled out one, and the first bag I got was a coin labeled to be worth no less that $1,195.</p><p><br /></p><p>Behold,</p><p>The holy grail of zinc cents:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1566687[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I couldn&#039;t believe my eyes.</p><p><br /></p><p>There were about 25 individually bagged 2007 cents, all labeled at $1,195. There was also another 25 of each <b>1944, 1958, 1980 </b>and<b> 1983 </b>individually bagged pennies in the collection labeled at equally ridiculous prices. I don&#039;t know why he chose those years specifically, but there were tons of them.</p><p>Now I don&#039;t want to make fun of him too much. He was a great guy, and a WWII veteran. He also wrote a book about it his WWII experience. It was a great read, and he had a lot of crazy stories in it; I would recommend.</p><p>PT Boat 81 by Milton Rackham</p><p><a href="https://ptboat81.weebly.com/about-the-book.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://ptboat81.weebly.com/about-the-book.html" rel="nofollow">https://ptboat81.weebly.com/about-the-book.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>And as for the coin collection itself, it wasn&#039;t all worthless; there actually were a few interesting things in it that may hold a bit of value.</p><p>I haven&#039;t done my research on many of these yet, but here are some of the cool things I found in it.</p><p><br /></p><p>I might throw in a few updates about what these coins are and their values, so stay tuned.</p><p><br /></p><p>There was this thing, which looked to be some kind of German commemorative. Definitely worth researching.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1566695[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Then there was this old lighter made out of a coin.</p><p>Obv.</p><p>Napoleon III Emperor</p><p>Rev.</p><p>Empire Erancais</p><p>Date: 1870</p><p>I think this one may have been worth more if it wasn&#039;t turned into a lighter, but I don&#039;t know yet.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1566706[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1566707[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And finally, there was a captains insignia pin. No idea on value, but a neat find.</p><p><br /></p><p>Overall, a very <i>interesting</i> collection... But I&#039;m glad to have been given the opportunity to look through it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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