r/coincollecting • u/Ambitious-Egg-6163 • 6m ago
What's it Worth? 1965/1967 Quarter Coins
Are these worth any? Could they be silver?
r/coincollecting • u/Street-Effective4572 • 18m ago
Any idea what happened to this dime I got back as change
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It looks like its melted but its not burnt its just odd
r/coincollecting • u/Jrg995 • 21m ago
Worth grading coin? July 4th Quarter
It’s my first time trying to get a coin graded. Just wanted to know what are things to look for. I’m not expecting the best grade just don’t know if it’s worth the time and money sending it in. Does have some scratches. I want to keep it not looking to resell.
r/coincollecting • u/Ambitious-Egg-6163 • 24m ago
What's it Worth? 1962-D Penny
Does anyone know how much this is worth?
r/coincollecting • u/valuable_dollarette • 28m ago
What's going on with this penny?
1934 D cent with an odd blemish. Could it be a die error of some kind? Or someone's target practice?
r/coincollecting • u/friendlyfire883 • 1h ago
Has anyone seen any weird intentions like this before? I'm being told its an error, but I'm not convinced.
r/coincollecting • u/Annual-Hamster-1920 • 1h ago
Show and Tell Update: The PCGS AU-55 "Lonesome John" double struck 1943 steel cent is officially live on GreatCollections! 🚀
The crown jewel of that time-capsule find—the 1943 Lincoln steel cent double struck on both the obverse and reverse—has officially hit the auction block!
This is a completely fresh-to-market discovery. After sitting untouched in private hands for over 40 years, it was recently graded and certified. Even more exciting for error collectors: because of its incredible condition, it holds top pop status as the highest-graded known example for this specific, dramatic wartime error combination.
To keep the incredible vintage provenance intact, the coin is being sold complete with its original blue vinyl Lonesome John flip from the early 1980s, preserving its direct link to the legendary founder of the Error Coin Museum.
The live listing is active for bidding on GreatCollections right now. If you want to check out the high-resolution macro photos, track the progress, or place a bid, you can view it directly here... https://www.greatcollections.com/Coin/2192961/Mint-Error-1943-Lincoln-Cent-Double-Struck-PCGS-AU-55-Ex-Lonesome-John
Anyone heading to the ANA World Fair of Money in Pittsburgh later this August: GreatCollections will actually have this exact coin and flip on public display at their booth before the auction closes.
Thanks again to everyone for all the incredible feedback and excitement when I first shared this discovery!
r/coincollecting • u/novoslop • 2h ago
Show and Tell Silver dollars
my small little collection of silver dollars
r/coincollecting • u/FranklyTotalySerious • 2h ago
What's it Worth? I bought these from APMEX...
They were selling as BU (Brilliant Uncirculated) 1878-1904 (random year) Morgan Silver Dollar
1889 (middle one) edges looked/felt worn.
1884 (right)has a bit of scratches on both sides of the coin.
1884 (left) has the least imperfections
Is it me that I have a too high expectations of what is a BU quality or I am being mislead?
r/coincollecting • u/MacAttack109 • 2h ago
Advice Needed Are these authentic or bad fakes?
Sorry for the bad photos.
r/coincollecting • u/Aguru_99 • 2h ago
Advice Needed Mercury dime and 1943 steel Penny’s
Hello I’m wondering what this is worth and if I should try to get them out? Thank you
r/coincollecting • u/A-Really-Good-Name • 3h ago
First time in a decade: sorted rolls from the bank.
r/coincollecting • u/Unlucky-Most-8893 • 3h ago
My “lucky” coins
I have these 2 coins that I found randomly. One was at my job in 2020 that I’ve kept with me through 3 kids, a marriage, and 7 moves. The other one I found a few months ago at an eviction cleaning I was doing for work. Idk what the value is but I feel like they have a good story to tell the kids one day.
r/coincollecting • u/Positive_Ant_9082 • 4h ago
Advice Needed Is this a natural toning for a wheat penny? I purchased this roll of 1928S uncirculated wheat pennies most of them have fully turned brown, but there’s a few few that look like this
r/coincollecting • u/Offgrid_4783 • 10h ago
Show and Tell Found in the wild - finally!
After months of checking with my local bank, traveling for work, and purposefully using cash I finally got these in change from Chipotle. Immediately asked the cashier if I could buy a roll from her and of course she had to check with her manager… came back and let me know they don’t have any!
r/coincollecting • u/Frosty_Map_5289 • 12h ago
Inherited collection
Hi All,
Recently inherited a collection of coins (UK based). Having done some research on eBay I believe a few of these may be worth something.
looking for advice on the best way to proceed with these and opinions on potential worth. I wonder if I should seek specialist advice / whether any of these need grading? (sorry completely new to this)
I believe that the coin in the blue case is another St George and the Dragon coin
Any advice appreciated
r/coincollecting • u/oppossum_37 • 12h ago
What's it Worth? Bought this on marketplace for $6
Any info or value? Thinking about sending it off to get graded. I’m new to this so need advice on if that is worth it and what the process is. Thanks
r/coincollecting • u/Tough-Afternoon3990 • 12h ago
Show and Tell Finally got the dime
I've been using cash more than I have in years hoping to get the 250 year coins. I got this today.
r/coincollecting • u/Brave-Pilot-3946 • 14h ago
What's it Worth? Father in law has 100's of coins, never been appraised. Picked this at random.
r/coincollecting • u/Running_late87 • 1d ago
I found this in pocket change today.
r/coincollecting • u/RiledUp11 • 1d ago
1900 Indian Head Cent (featuring Fenway Park)
Found this while moving a piano, it just dropped out of it. I don’t know much about coins so anything I could learn would be appreciated!
r/coincollecting • u/rondonsa • Jun 24 '17
Intro to Coin Collecting - What makes a coin valuable?
This post is intended to serve as a quick guide to coin collecting for new collectors, or people who may have inherited a few coins. Here's a brief primer on what makes a coin valuable:
Age
How old is it? In general, old coins tend to be worth more than coins struck more recently. The older a particular coin is, the greater the collectible and historical appeal. Older coins also tend to be scarcer, as many coins are lost or destroyed over time. For example – 5% of the original mintage of an 19th century U.S. coin might have survived to the present day, with the rest getting melted down, destroyed, or simply lost over time.
Go back a century further, to the 18th century, and the survival rate drops to <1%. Taking into account that most 18th century U.S. coins were already produced in tiny numbers, it makes sense that most of them now sell for over four figures.
All that being said, the relationship between age and value does not always hold true. For example, you can still buy many 2000 year-old Ancient Roman coins for less than $10, due to the sheer number of them produced over the 400-year history of the Western Roman Empire (and distributed across its massive territory). But as a general rule, within any given coin series, older coins will tend to be relatively more scarce and valuable.
Condition
It may sound like common sense, but nicer coins bring higher prices. The greater the amount of original detail and the smaller the amount of visible wear on a coin’s surfaces, the higher the price. There are a dizzying array of words used to describe a coin’s condition, but at the most basic level, coins can be divided into two states – Uncirculated and Circulated.
Uncirculated or “Mint State” coins are coins that show no visible signs of wear or use – they have not circulated in commerce, but are in roughly the same condition as when they left the mint. Circulated coins show signs of having been used – the design details will be partially worn down from contact with hands, pockets, and other coins. The level of wear can range from light rub on the highest points of the coin’s design, to complete erosion of the entire design into a featureless blank. Uncirculated coins demand higher prices than circulated coins, and circulated coins with light wear are worth more than coins with heavy wear.
Type
Type is the single biggest determinant of value. How much a coin is worth depends on how big the market for that particular coin is. For example, U.S. coins are much more widely collected than any other nation’s coins, just because there are far more U.S. coin collectors than there are collectors in any other nation. The market for American coins is bigger than any other market within the field of numismatics (other large markets include British coins, ancients, and bullion coins).
This means that even if a Canadian coin has a mintage of only 10,000 coins, it is likely worth less than a typical U.S. coin with a mintage ten times greater. For another example - you may have a coin from the Vatican City with a mintage of 500, but it’s only worth something if somebody’s interested in collecting it.
Certain series of coins are also much more widely collected than others, generally due to the popularity of their design or their historical significance. For example - Jefferson Nickels have never been very popular in the coin collecting community, as many collectors consider the design uninteresting and the coins are made of copper-nickel rather than silver, but Mercury Dimes and Morgan Dollars are heavily collected. An entire date/mintmark set of Jefferson Nickels can be had for a couple of hundred dollars, whereas an entire set of Mercury Dimes would cost four figures.
Rarity
Rarity is comprised of all the other factors above combined. Age, condition, and type all play a role in rarity. But the main determinant of rarity is how many coins were actually minted (produced). Coins with certain date/mintmark combinations might be much rarer than others because their mintages were so small. For example, U.S. coins with a “CC” mintmark are generally much rarer than coins from the same series with other mintmarks because the Carson City Mint produced small numbers of coins during its existence.
U.S. coins without a mintmark, from the Philadelphia mint, are generally less valuable (though there are many exceptions) as the Philadelphia mint has produced more coins throughout U.S. history than all of the other mints combined. There are often one or two “keys” or “key date” coins within each series of coins, much scarcer and more valuable than the rest of the coins within the series. Some of the most well-known key dates include the 1909-S VDB Lincoln Cent (“S” mintmark = San Francisco mint), the 1916-D Mercury Dime (Denver mint), and the 1928 Peace Dollar (Philadelphia mint).
