Old paper money bought at estate sale

Nothing earth-shattering there, but fun stuff. The first one is either a slug or perhaps a beaten to death Lincoln Memorial Cent (back side). I always enjoy finding the old Napoleon coins. Lots of interesting stuff to try and find out about. Any silver?

 

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I don't think so

 

Did I not see a 1951 Canadian dime in your other post...that's silver.

 

Here's some I don't think I posted

 

The 1960 Canadian quarter is silver.

 

Don't know will look are any of these silver?

 

The dime and quarter are silver, the nickles would have to be 1921 or earlier to be silver.

 

The dime and the quarter are 80% silver.
There's 2 types of 1932 nickels. So now you need to find out which one:

1932 - Near 2 - - $2.60 $5.40 $10.80 $23.20 $59.80
1932 - Far 2 - - $360 $490 $740 $1,180 $1,670

Those prices may be in Canadian. Even if it's the Near 2, still a good one.

 

See what searching can uncover...

 

It's a far

 

Thank you for teaching me something

 

The token with the Statue of Liberty on it that says "Contains Authentic Material" on it is an interesting piece.

When the Statue of Liberty was renovated in the early 80s, Sears purchased the scrap copper that was removed from the statue and used it to strike these tokens to commemorate the centennial of Sears in 1986 (the same year that renovations on the statue were completed). So that token is made from original copper from the Statue of Liberty.

 

I just bought all of this this morning haven't had enough time to research just some

 

Wow I was going to visit her but guess she resided to come see me.lol

 

I see these tokens turn up from time to time in dealer token bins and buy them just for the interesting provenance. I don't think very many know the story behind them.

 

Had to buy this lot

I love it and did read that this morning

 

The Near and the Far is very subtle. I can't tell the difference.
It looks Near to me, the proximity to the leaf. Since the Far
is very rare and valuable. You will need an expert to figure it out.
I would suggest a separate post in the World Coins forum,
photos of both sides and ask if it is Near or Far.
Someone there will know the markers.
I read what was online but it's very subtle.

 

Thank you

 

Nice relic type coin, made out of a historical object. I've been looking at Monitor vs Merrimack ironclad battle tokens. They had a run of iron tokens from the CSS Virginia's (Merrimack) armor plate or bow ram. The age of sail ended there and turrets came into use.

 

I'm into antiques and have been to a number of estate sales. I don't hold out hope of being able to purchase coins at these types of venues since the sellers or estate companies often have unrealistic expectations on pricing. Same goes for auctions and antique malls, often common low value and poor condition items priced at extremely high levels.