Just bought a bunch of coins for under melt - plus 125 to dig through

Melt is about $160, I paid $137.87 including shipping and insurance. Plus I get to have some fun sorting through the foreign coins. Here is the listing description.

Lot of over 200 US and World Coins, in an Elvis Presley Cigar Box, including:

• (125)+ foreign coins from around the world. I noticed a 1918 foreign Large Cent, and a 1948 foreign small cent, and some nice looking wheat pennies. The others are a mixture of denominations from around the world.
• (4) Ike Dollars - (2) 1971, (1) 1972, (1) 1974.
• (2) War Time Steel Lincoln pennies - 1943.
• (14) Kennedy Half Dollars - (5) 1967, (3) 1968 D, (3) 1969 D, (1) 1971 D, (2) 1976 Bicentennial. Some in BU condition.
• (1) Morgan Silver Dollar - 1921 D in AU to possible MS condition.
• (1) Peace Silver Dollar - 1923 in AU to possibly MS condition.
• (1) Canadian Silver Dollar - 1958 in BU condition. Date reads 1858-1958.
• (1) Walking Liberty Silver Half Dollar - 1937 in Good condition.
• (1) Standing Liberty Silver Quarter - 1927 in Good condition.
• (1) Washington Silver Quarter - 1943 in Good condition.
• (1) Barber Dime - 1914 in good condition.
• (16) Winged Liberty or Mercury Dimes - Various dates from 1921 to 1945, all in Good or better condition.
• (2) Roosevelt Silver Dimes - both 1952 S.
• (11) Jefferson War-time Silver Alloy Nickels - Various dates between 1943 and 1945.
• (20)+ Buffalo Nickels - Various dates.
• (10)+ Liberty Head or "V" nickels - Various dates from 1899 to 1911 in Good condition.

These coins are all uncertified. The grades are my opinion.

 

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Sounds like you got a nice deal.
Good luck and have fun with them.

 

Nice deal IMHO too, best of luck to you man. :thumb:

Phoenix

 

Sounds like a nice deal and gives you plenty to sort through!

 

Coins were as described.

The Morgan and Peace were both AU.

There were 39 buffalo nickels (listing said 20+) all but a few had dates, some VG. Mostly common dates, one 1925. Some of the buffalo were in with the foreign coins.

There were 11 liberty head nickels (listing said 10+). You could read liberty on one of them.

There was also a silver Asian coin, about an ounce. It was separated from the rest of the foreign coins. I will try to figure out what it is.

A few US coins were mixed with the foreign coins. There were 36 common wheat ear pennies mixed with the foreign coins. There was a 1979 Susan B Anthony. There was a 2007 Washington dollar.

There was also a 2 dollar canadian coin.

There looks to be some interesting foreign coins. These will take me longer to go through, since I don't know much about foreign coins. There is a wide range of dates and countries. A couple of them caught my eye. One in particular, I really liked the design. It was a Yugoslavian coin.

There were a couple of older copper coins that were separated from the rest of the foreign coins. I will try to find more information on these.

I am happy with my purchase. It still seems like a good deal even with the drop in silver the last couple of days.

 

What was the grade of the Elvis Presley Cigar Box?

 

Somebody did "Take Good Care of Her", although it seemed "All Shook Up".

 

The Asian coin looks like one of these. It says they are rare?!http://ykleungn.tripod.com/kiangn01.htm

I have to read closer. I need to get the kids in bed now.

edit: It looks like these are not all that uncommon. There have been lots of counterfits over the years, too. It also looks like there are lots of variations of the real thing. I haven't found any that look exactly like mine, real or counterfit. Mine looks similar to the ones on that page. Seems like it is probably worth about $20.

 

You may have done better then you think. I did a few calcuition on some of the coins you listed and this is what I came up with at todays silver prices. $18.39 oz

At todays melt prices

Ike Dollas 4 = $23.26
Kennedy halfs 11 = $29.92
Morgan 1= $14.22
Peace 1= $14.22
Walking Liberty 1= $6.65
Washington Quarter 1= $3.33
Mercury Dimes 16= $21.29
Roosevelt Dimes 2= $2.66
War Time Nickels 11= $11.38
Total $126.93

These are just a few coins that you listed containing silver(melt value not coin price), the other you can calculate by the face value if you go to coinflation.com. I am not sure what the silver content of the foreign coins are but if you add up those with the others you made out real good not to mention the Elvis cigar box.