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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ConfederateHalf, post: 1216068, member: 27946&quot;]Hello,</p><p><br /></p><p>My father-in-law&#039;s dad was in the Merchant Marine in the 1930&#039;s and 1940&#039;s and he brought back many coins from his travels abroad.&nbsp; All of them sat in a tin cookie can in a closet for the past 70 years.&nbsp; Recently, my father-in-law brought me this can of coins and I&#039;ve been picking through them pulling out the more numismatically interesting specimens.&nbsp; The hoard has already yielded a 1911 Y31 Chinese Dragon Dollar that ANACS graded VF35.</p><p>[ATTACH]128959.vB[/ATTACH]&nbsp;&nbsp; We sold that one on eBay this week for $799.00. Cha-Ching! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Now I&#039;m evaluating another interesting find.&nbsp; One of the coins in the hoard is a 1942 Mexican 5 Centavos seen in the photos I&#039;ve attached.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]128956.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I Google&#039;d this coin and learned that in 1942 Mexico changed the design of the 5 centavos piece late in the year.&nbsp; The earlier variety is quite common with over 7 million coins struck, but this variety has a mintage of only 900,000 and is the key date of the entire series that runs from 1942-1955. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]128957.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]128958.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d like to get opinions on the <b><i><u>grade and value</u> </i></b>of this coin.&nbsp; I&#039;m almost exclusively a collector of U.S. coins, so I&#039;m not 100% confident of how to grade this piece other than to use general grading standards.&nbsp; To me, it looks like an XF45 as it only shows light wear on the highest points of the devices but I&#039;d love to hear from someone who has more experience grading and valuing Mexican coins - especially someone familiar with this series.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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