Does anyone collect coins on here?

[Nick086]

So does anyone on here collect old coins? I have a bunch of wheat pennies dated back from 1911, A 1945 Mecury dime, Silver dollar, and a Half dollar from 1965. Does anyone collect coins from Europe?

 

[Jadzia]

I don't collect coins, but I do have a jar full of Nazi Reichpfennigs. My grandfather got them during the war. Some have holes in them, as though they've been stamped to nullify them; the rest are perfect.

 

[MHT1138]

I collect coins, but rather informally. I have some American coins from 30's 40's and 50's. I also have coins from Africa and a few from Europe. My brother who lives in Tanzania brings me coins and paper money too. The coolest thing I have is a coin from German Colonial East Africa from the early 1900's.

 

[RandyS]

I don't but my mom and aunt both did. When my mom died, she left me her incomplete coin collection. Her sister died recently and I also inherited her coins.

I have to be honest, I do not consider these things to be of "sentimental value" like some other stuff they and my grandparents left me, and am anxious to unload them. But, I don't want to just give them away. Anybody know where I can go to sell them, or, first, have them appraised? Also, does an appraisal cost money? I would think so, but my investigations into the matter have not been helpful so far.

 

[Lookingglassman]

My grandmother had a whole bunch of really old coins she kept hidden. She showed me them once and they had "1800" dates stamped on some of them. After she died, they disappeared. I am assuming one of my aunt's made off with them.

 

[Nick086]

I think I remember hearing somewhere old silver quarters are worth 3.25. If you had an old coffee can filled with old silver quarters your looking at a couple of grand there.

 

[Sephiroth]

I inherited my grandmother's coin collection, mostly mundane stuff but a few coins that are pre 1900's and a coin from 1951 Taiwan that I cant find a visual record of

 

[marillion]

I have an old box somewhere with a pretty diverse collection. I've got some coins from when my parent went to England back in the 60s and a few from Mexico. I do have a 1878 silver dollar, but it's not in very good shape. I have an old buffalo head nickel from way back, but I can't read the date. Add to that a few wheat pennies and mercury dimes..

Back in the late 70ss and 80s I collected bicentennial coins, on the mistaken assumption that they would be worth something some day.. By the time I got into college in the 90s, they were handy to have for beer money suppliments!

 

[Lindley]

I collected coins when I was younger. I still have several coin books on a shelf, including a Franklin half-dollar and a few steel pennies. I need to decide if that's something that still interests me or not....

 

[tharpdevenport]

I got some pennies in my car... ;-)


I keep every penny with a date from the 1940's or lower (though I had to spend some of it a few years ago).

I also got a nickel that appears to be old -- never researched it.

 

[mauddib]

I've been collecting coins for upwards of 20 years. Were you looking for information or values on the coins you mentioned? I primarily limit myself to US and Canadian coins although I do occassionally pick up a foreign coin if it strikes my fancey.

 

[ares93]

I used to do it a few years ago but my interest has disappeared over the years. However i have a coin dating back to late 1456. One of my most praised possessions.

I can ask someone back home to take a pic if you guys want to see it.

 

[mimic]

I have an 1886 Morgan and a few other random things (wheat pennies, buffalo nickels, steel pennies)

 

[RandyS]

I think I remember hearing somewhere old silver quarters are worth 3.25. If you had an old coffee can filled with old silver quarters your looking at a couple of grand there.

Actually they're (mostly) in collectors "books", you know, those slot type things? Several of the pennies date as far back as 1909. I haven't finished going through them, but the books themselves were printed in 1975, and do list a coin value, but this being 36 years later, I'm sure that's changed. Wiether for more or less is the part I haven't figured out yet.

 

[Nick086]

I think I remember hearing somewhere old silver quarters are worth 3.25. If you had an old coffee can filled with old silver quarters your looking at a couple of grand there.

Actually they're (mostly) in collectors "books", you know, those slot type things? Several of the pennies date as far back as 1909. I haven't finished going through them, but the books themselves were printed in 1975, and do list a coin value, but this being 36 years later, I'm sure that's changed. Wiether for more or less is the part I haven't figured out yet.

The old silver quarters date back to the 1950s and early 1960s. Yeah to most people a quater is a quater if its made out of silver or nickel. I'm sure I put in a lot of silver quarters in soda machines back when I was a kid and a teenager.

 

[melancholymecha]

my dad gave me his collection, mostly foreign coins. I dont know if they have any value. I think I have at least one coin from almost every country in South & Central America & a bunch of European ones.

 

[synesthete]

This past year I sold much of my coin collection. Just am not that interested in it anymore. The only things I didn't cell is my collection of Liberty Walking Half Dollars and my ancient Greek currency (BC stone currency). I wouldn't mind selling either of these things, but just haven't found a buyer yet.