How to sell rare coins
How to sell your old coins. I appraise a coin collection.
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How to sell rare coins?
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well hello everybody i am spectacular
the silver stackular today in this video
i have a coin collection and i'm going
to appraise the value of this thing for
a friend and it's actually the friend's
mother's collection so i want to go
through it and i'll talk a little bit
about what i'm going to do as far as how
i'm going to value things um what i use
to value things and
who knows maybe we could find something
really cool in here
1944 steel cent um the the legendary
1964 peace dollar i mean you know
the sky is the limit in here so we're
gonna get in here and look around stay
with me because we might find some cool
things we want to see if mom's going to
get any money
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all right here we go so i kind of just
want to show you exactly what i'm seeing
when i first go through this thing
looks like a heavy tupperware
container
some craft miracle whip
with wow 59 cents do you remember when
that was 59 cents
whoa
prices have gone up we got a few old
looks like whitman
uh books here
let's see
getting it out a pile of
coins that are in flips
and some loose coinage here in the
corner let me get those out
and
a couple baggies and then that's it
we're empty maybe some cat hair dog hair
in there but we don't want to appraise
that we want to kind of just evaluate
what we have here
so
um
i mean where do you start with a coin
collection you know
one thing i will say is i did notice
that in the miracle whip it did seem
like there was some silver coinage in
there so maybe that's what mom did she
put some silver coins in the jar and
that'll be really easy to uh to go
through well there's a buffalo nickel
there too so that's not silver so we're
going to go through each one of those
let's see what's in this tupperware this
was interesting these are all
scents looks like
yes
um okay so this might be like a wheat
cent collection so a whole collection of
those that's going to be a lot of work i
said it's going to be a lot of work
because well i'll show you one of the
tools that i use i do use a red book
this is an old red book of course it's
20 21 right now but uh the mintage
numbers generally stay the same so
that's going to be important for me i
don't care what the prices say in this
red book because the red book is
notorious for having just really really
inflated prices that nobody's ever going
to get for a coin but i do get the
mintage numbers i can find out a coin's
rarity quickly at a glance and then i
got the trusty internet that i can go
look up anything i really want to uh
foreign or you know us coins are going
to be just that fast to look up no big
deal
and i also have a calculator on the
computer too because i'm going to want
to keep track of the value of what i'm
finding here
so if i do find something rare
or interesting i definitely want to
pause the video and come back to you on
that but that's one of the main things
i'm using
and i'll be using a different you know
several different websites to to find
values if there is a rare coin or a coin
i'm curious about
i have plenty of avenues
on the internet uh i will say that
typically if you do a um evaluation from
like a coin dealer
uh you know you're going to get the real
quick you're not going to be able to get
the kind of job i'm doing here my friend
kind of entrusted me to to hold this at
my home he was just like hey you know
take this back home with you look it
over and uh let me know what you think
so i have
as much time as i would like to go
through everything whereas you go to a
coin shop and uh you know you you show
this right there to them they got to go
through quick i mean they can't spend
all day um on some on some coins unless
there's a lot of rare stuff in here
so far just at a glance i haven't seen
anything too rare here's a cool uh 1903
barber dime but again not great
condition not rare just cool you know
it's cool it's 90 silver so that's fun
but let me start getting through uh some
of it maybe i'll start with the wheat
cents and i'll come back and tell you
what i find
all right so i just finished going
through the tupperware of wheat cents
these are just all really common i mean
nothing special whatsoever and in fact
there was really to be honest with you
uh you know sorry to surprise you there
was nothing really rare in there
unfortunately
i would have loved to have found
something crazy like a 1909 svdb i did
find one regular 1909
not a vdb though man
that would have been that would have
been a lot of fun just to find something
like that you know even though those are
pretty common too just to find it just
to just to get it out of there the red
book is kind of essential and i just
want to show you this real quick i mean
many coin collectors that watch my
videos are familiar with these things
right here so this is kind of a back to
basics moment but just because you have
an old coin does not immediately make it
valuable i get emails almost daily uh
from people saying hey i have an old
coin you know how much is it worth and
it'll be just a really really common
scent or you know nickel dime whatever
the case may be
just because it's an old date does not
make it valuable
and i can say that right now but it's
gonna you know go over a lot of deaf
ears for sure because people just are
firm believers that an old coin is going
to be you know making a lot of money uh
not the case and like i said you can see
that uh throughout a lot of these
different dates
i'm just going to use a few as an
example 1925 139 million were minted
1926 157 were minted so you add all
these up man you got you know billions
of coins
and as the year started getting into the
later years which is what most of these
are
40s and 50s you started having a lot
made
here's a year right here where literally
in 1945
over a billion over 1 billion cents
for just that one year we're minted so
um
you got to really kind of go through the
wheat cents carefully because there
could be that diamond in the rough i
mean everybody's hoping for the 1955
double die or the 1909 s vdb of course
or just a really nice condition one
there were no nice conditions here like
i said i just kind of kept the older
ones to the side
here um i for my personal collection i
do like
tens 20s 30s 40s 50s and i just keep
them like separated kind of like that by
decade that way and that's just a
personal thing um for instance my
friend's mother here she put just all
the stuff in the tupperware and that was
her personal thing so collectors are all
different and you're going to find if
you do have a coin collection that
everybody's going to have things done
differently because it's just how they
want to do things i found some common
like 1983 lincoln cents
looking for some doubling on the 1984
didn't find anything
there's a few varieties out there so you
know if you're a variety hunter you
gotta look for that
if you do give
like a bunch of like uh wheat cents to
like a coin dealer they're not gonna sit
there and pick out the varieties for you
so it's important that if you want the
maximum value for your collection
do a little bit of research and try to
look up varieties specific years and try
to pull those out
you know specific years and mint marks i
should say and condition like nice
conditioned coins pull those out
yourself set those to the side or put
them in flips because
the dealer's probably not going to do
that for you they're just going to buy
them as a lot
because like i said they oftentimes
don't have time to just go every go
through everything like i did here
some cool i'll show you a few of these
real quick and move these out of the
side these are just the common
uh lincoln cents
but here i do have some
uh you know common but neat uh foreign
coins except for this right here this is
a blank planchet and you probably think
oh man uh you know a blank penny or a
blank scent uh that's got to be like a
rare error it's actually pretty common
for an error it's really neat as a
collection as a you know piece you can
talk about with people but
it's in by no means rare but that's a
cool piece
for sure some of these you know coins
are actually really neat i really enjoy
this one right here this little
little sea star and this one has a
different back so it's a
bahama little 1980 bahama coin and i
really enjoy that but yeah a few little
odds and ends i did find this which i
thought was interesting in all those
scents uh you know at a glance it's kind
of like looks like you know scent color
a little bit but actually it was a
buffalo nickel and no date on this old
one right here unfortunately
there are techniques to bring the date
out of the buffalo nickels i'm not going
to be doing that but you can definitely
do some research and try to figure that
out um it involves i think a little a
little bit of acid and not the kind that
people were experimenting on just you
know
totally different but
that's a that's a total horse of a
different color right there and i won't
be doing that on this video this is a
pretty coin too oh again another sea
star yeah i love that sea star
uh why don't you call them starfish
spectacular well uh you know they're
technically not starfish they're sea
stars that's the technical terms for
them um so that's what i got right there
so let me put those to the side
all these the foreigns
um the old
scents
and i'm not
um
totally sure if i'm going to offer
a price to my friend and tell them what
everything is
what i would pay for everything
and it's up to them if they want to you
know go with it so
i'm not trying to say any this is mine
right now this is just me appraising it
for the friend and they can do what they
want they can go get another appraisal
they can hold it for the rest of their
lives whatever they want to do i'm just
offering them my opinion um there are
some foreign coins here so let's go
through the foreign coins next and see
what we got
a little baggie
with foreign
so there's that uh sometimes the foreign
coins have a little bit of silver in
them let me get some some zoom here for
you
and luckily i have a lot of large world
books to help me go through these and
there's a lot of
information on the internet too
for world coin so i'm gonna have to use
some of that stuff because i am by no
means a world expert and i told my
friend that i said hey when it comes to
the ford stuff you know i'm not not by
any means an expert i will say that at a
glance some of these coins do look
silver which automatically means there's
a little value in there so i'm going to
pick a few of these out and then later
i'm going to skip the video forward and
we'll talk about what i find out so that
won't bore you with all the particulars
but um some of these coins right here
this is a
canadian
10 cents
um this right here to my
untrained eye i believe this is a silver
coin so i'll hold that to the side
this right here
this type of wear on a coin is just
really really typical of old silver
coinage so
i would definitely say this is a has
silver in it and so again
although it's not a ton of value there
is some value there just by being a
precious metal in your coinage and i
believe this right here this canadian
piece
um some of these have silver but this is
probably not one this is too late of a
date
but i'll look through some of these and
i'll come back to you with what i was
able to find out all right so i am back
from doing the foreign um i'm actually
surprised some of these canadian coinage
i guess they stayed silver longer than i
thought they did and uh these quarters
right here actually 50 silver and um you
know with silver being 25 and 50 cents
an ounce
it's easy to get some value here uh just
just out of silver coinage um the
regular foreign stuff i didn't find
anything special i looked through each
one a lot of like 80s and and such um
nothing special cool to see though let
me say that uh foreign coins are awesome
i wanted to show you this one right here
in particular this is to me just a
really really pretty coin and uh those
out there in australia are going to be
like hey it's just no big deal it's one
of our normal coinage you know me but
it's just really nice so here's a coin
from 1977 this is australia and it's got
this uh like a platypus or
something on there right is that a can
we can we agree that that's a duckbill
platypus
about five cents just a little nickel of
theirs so i thought that was kind of
cool
um so you know not valuable by any means
but a neat coin i also found this right
here
uh this is some kind of a little
uh token and it's got a hole in it so
you could make it into a little
necklace
the perfect linen suit shanty loom
so that's kind of fun and just a just an
oddity there in the uh you know the
foreign collection also found some v
nickels this is actually ours man we can
claim this united states this is our
stuff 1904 1906 v nickels so um probably
assume that those were foreign just by
the way they look because they do look
kind of different don't they they have a
different look about when they get worn
out like that it looks a lot different
but the v nickels um these unfortunately
the dates 1904 1906 pretty common uh
millions were made nothing special but
cool to see you know those are neat
and this one right here is just well
that's just regular but uh right here
just the silver coinage um a few 80
percenters a few 50 percenters and uh
actually the value was 12.72
just for this little pile right here in
my hands so a few coins right there made
made mom some money right so there we go
there's a start i'm going to put those
to the side the silver coinage just
because that's easy to make a value on
with the rest of the stuff if you go to
a
a dealer a coin shop
what they usually do with foreign stuff
is just it's just like a bulk deal man
they just by the pound on this stuff as
well similar to like the wheat cents
they're not worth a whole lot unless you
find that one diamond in the rough that
old coin that's worth a lot of money so
you don't get a lot for this stuff but
yeah it's fun to have it's fun to look
through for sure it's neat to see what
all the different countries are doing
with their coinage um i love seeing how
like australia puts like animals on
their coins and a lot of other countries
do that too fascinating to see next i
want to go through some of these right
here these uh flips and then after that
we'll go through the jar of miracle whip
and see what we got and then we still
have the books we got a lot to go
through here it's gonna be a decently
long video is it not this is i don't
know what this is it says
austria on the flip
7 30 uh just some kind of like little
charm it feels very light i would say
this is not gold unfortunately it's a
cool little charm
if anybody in the comments wants to tell
me what this actually is i mean it looks
like flowers but i don't know much about
it and i'm not that kind of collector
but
cool you know comes something neat
here's a 1903 barber dime it says 60 on
there you wish it was 60 but uh
but but alas it's not that's my friend's
mother's name is lynn so
you know lynn this is uh a barber dime
so you're worth a a little bit just
based on its silver value 90 silver so
i'll put that to the side as being
valuable that way it's not a rare uh
year unfortunately even though it's old
again 1903 you think hey that's worth
something because it's old not the case
another case right here 1944 s walking
liberty half dollar a very neat um coin
i mean it's got that nice s mint mark
right there in the corner that you love
to see
but alas again
pretty common coin
but still worth something because it's
actually 90 silver so
value there as well
these are neat right here
so this is a
1970
philadelphia denver and san francisco
kind of like little trio there man it's
old huh all these staples are all rusted
so let that be a
reminder to you be careful about these
staples uh that when you put them in the
flips if you don't have some kind of
anti-humidity device and around you it's
gonna probably cause some rust with
those and that rust could leach onto
your coins so be careful
but um just some nice looking coins
nothing too special here it's just neat
to collect and you know every collector
like i said is different and this is
just something different to have alright
next we have a 1964
kennedy half dollar
these are cool because in 1964 and prior
our half dollars dimes and quarters were
90 percent silver so at 1965
that little thing kind of stopped
unfortunately but
with the half dollars
1965 to 1969
still retained 40 silver content so
those do still have some value but this
one right here is 90 silver so a lot of
value there uh with as far as silver
goes not rare by any means the kennedy
1964 half dollars but 90 silver makes
them valuable we'll go and calculate the
value here in a second i have a 1977 s
proof
jefferson nickel uh nothing too special
here a lot of times the dealers when
they have their proof coins man they
just
they're
everywhere i mean proof sets that that
dealers have
there's so many of them i mean they have
like just droves of them in the back
somewhere so not a lot of value there
but cool cool to see proof coins for
sure
1970s nothing too special but it's a
nice looking coin it's fun to keep that
kind of stuff
all right i do want to show you
something i was doing while i was doing
this video which is looking for variety
sometimes with varieties you can make a
little extra money
it includes a little bit more work but
like i said you could make some more
money off of a coin collection if you do
this and make sure you do this prior to
handing it to a dealer because the
dealer's not going to be able to look
for varieties uh right there with you
you got to do it on your own and then
present that to the dealer so for
instance in 1970s lincoln cent there is
a small date in a large date variety
you can see that unfortunately this one
that len had was a large date based on
the
nine in the date kind of going off at a
downwards angle
instead of like a straight right angle
that the small date needs to have on the
nine so
the difference is quite a bit of money a
small date right now um on ebay you can
probably get around 50 or so dollars for
a small date in nice condition
whereas a large date is
you know only
only a little bit maybe
maybe a dollar or two if you're very
lucky in a really nice condition so
unfortunately lin had a large date which
is not the big money maker on this but i
thought it'd be interesting to show you
an example of a variety of a coin that
you can look for
when you're doing coin roll hunting or
just looking through the lincoln sense
that you may have saved over the years
uh you know there's plenty of other
varieties and errors and
double dies
you can look for while you're coin roll
hunting
and uh you know holding on to your
lincoln cents or wheat cents or other
coins so that's why it's important to
have a red book too because they show
you a lot of these varieties and there
also is a lot of other books out there
that talk about varieties and coins
you're not going to make a whole lot of
money off of these kind of things but
you know it's it's nice to see
nice looking coins is not 1970 quarter
it's in pretty good shape but again
1964
and prior has the silver that's not
worth very much at all besides a quarter
just some spending money but it's a
pretty example it might go good in a
book if you want to go ahead and make a
a set
here's a 1971 brilliant uncirculated
according to what the flip says
eisenhower dollar
so
you know eisenhower dollars are are neat
there's a like couple that you want to
look for
um there's a 1972 certain types of those
are actually worth some money
and uh you know some differences right
there and
little keys by florida you gotta look
for that for kind of like a type coin
this is not that of course this is 1971
but there are also some silver
eisenhower dollars too so those have
some value
unfortunately this is pretty much just
spending money you can go to the bank
sometimes and just say hey i'd like to
have some large dollars and they'll
still have eisenhower's
here is a 1937 s
buffalo nickel so 1937 s pretty cool and
you know if you're not a pro with all
the all the
buffalo nickels and the entire set you
can just get like a red book out look
for the message real quick and see where
you're at 1937
and we're going to the s right here 1937
s
there was five and a half million made
so actually a lower amount than typical
on some of the uh years for sure like
here you have 118 000 i'm sorry 118
million and then 58 million but this was
just five and a half um it's definitely
a decent grade but uh you might get a
couple bucks out of it
maybe
but uh it's it's neat to see for sure
more of something for just the the
collector just to look at um and hold on
to
not worth a whole lot but neat neat
stuff
here is a 1970 s
choice brilliant uncirculated it says
according to the flip huh
and
i don't know the reverse seems to have a
little wear to it
but uh you can agree or disagree on that
one
tell me what you think but regardless
nothing too special here just cool to
see
i like coins so i'm a coin collector
1971 kennedy half dollar no silver in
this one you can still find these today
you know ask for half dollars at the
bank and you might be able to get some
of those
here's a 1969 so this is an example of a
40 silver half dollar a little value
there i'll put that to the side
and last another
well 1972 okay so 1972
eisenhower dollar if you want to find
that type that have that has the special
little area um on the little world right
there that you're looking for it'll have
like little squiggly lines rather than
the
little like uh round kind of areas for
the keys by florida so unfortunately
this is not the one that you're looking
for but um you know it's worth at least
a dollar because it's a it's an old
dollar and sometimes people you know
give these away and change as a fun way
to do change
sometimes when you go to places that
sell coins they'll sell eisenhower
dollars for like a dollar 25 just to
make some money on them but
not too much value there but the silver
stuff is worth a little bit so i will
put that into the silver pile and
calculate that when i start going
through this jar let's do the jar next
all right this was a lot of work trying
to make sure that i had everything all
right um
so i added up basically the silver
content um no rare dates i checked for
all of that um i want to show you some
of the some of the things i found though
here is a standing liberty quarter
always get excited to see those
unfortunately there is no date on it the
date gets worn off really easy on the
earlier standing liberty quarters
the rest of them were washington
quarters but still 90 silver on those
ones
had some wartime nickels so those are
cool always identifiable by the large
mint mark right there above the
monticello building so you can see the d
and that's uh you know always indicative
of the wartime nickels so a little bit
of silver in those i had three of those
and
um 30 dimes total again no rare dates
anywhere in all of this unfortunately um
a mixture of roosevelt dimes and mercury
dimes and no great condition on anything
either i looked for that let's see i had
two
of the franklin half dollars so 90
silver
again i had the flipped um walking
liberty flipped 1964 so both 90 silver
and the one barber dime and
a flipped 19 was it 69 yeah 1969.
um
kennedy half dollar
a lot of going on here and uh let's see
a total of 11 other 40 kennedy half
dollars so 1969 and uh
prior to 1965
and those are
um 12 total
so yeah so a little bit of silver there
also found a um here's a
1943 steel scent so that's kind of cool
always identifiable by the fact that you
can take a magnet to it
and pick it up so
here is a rare earth magnet that i'm
going to get out
and i will show you the fact that all
these other coins
not going to pick it up but the old
steel scent will go right to it so those
are actually pretty common too now if
you were to find a 1944 steel cent or a
1943 copper scent you'd be in the money
but today
not so much at least for this collection
unfortunately there was some buffalo
nickels in that lot those are not silver
but uh still cool a lot of times i see
like grab bags of buffalo nickels or i
should say grab areas of buffalo nickels
people can just kind of pick out certain
ones or you know just grab some out of
there and they'll be like 75 cents
usually a piece
some of these have no date again you can
use a technique
to get that uh date sometimes get that
date coming through
but some of them were dated again no
rare dates some are really
really poor condition some are okay
some are not too bad but you know hoping
for some some nice dates right there
unfortunately did not get any
but
there's a little value there for sure
this stuff right here is was confusing
um probably to her thinking it was
silver because it looks like she tried
to get the silver in one pile um a 1966
washington quarter uh unfortunately not
silver you had to get 1964 and prior in
1969
even though it looks like it would be
like a silver coin this uh roosevelt
dime not 1971 not
um here's a bicentennial eisenhower you
know worth at least a dollar so that's
that's cool so there's a couple of
dollars in change here
um and uh another bicentennial kennedy
so
no bueno a lot of people will collect
like older um jefferson nickels here's a
1941 seems like it would be
kind of have some silver in there but
unfortunately it does not you always
look for that large mint mark on there
like you see in the wartime nickel right
there above the monticello building you
can see that large d right there
and uh this is you know
worth really a nickel
uh not not even great condition on that
but
those are to the side
still spending money i mean still worth
something just because it is
you know us currency
but
just the silver added that up so far
and uh with the 40
with all the 90 silver and the wartime
nickels 161.77
is what i came to
and uh that's pretty cool right
so that along with these right here
so far i mean you're talking
what one
uh 73 173 actually almost 174 for just
the foreign and the us
silver so far there's still a lot more
to go here's a little anomaly i found
earlier i thought it was actually kind
of cool it's a 1981 lincoln scene
nothing too special about it except for
it's got this uh really cool little
football helmet that somebody went ahead
and stamped in there so i thought that
was kind of fun
all right so now what i have left are
the books and i have a little baggie
which looks like american dollars let's
see i'm gonna try to open the bag and
get these out
um yep so you have
what is that that is a 1943 another
steel scent
so we're going to put that for now put
that over here
um some sacagawea
dollars
susan b dollars
sacajawea of course the sacajawea you're
looking for the cheerios dollar a lot of
people think they have it um most people
don't you can look on the internet to
try to figure out if you happen to have
one
and susan b i mean they're all worth a
dollar each so right there you have
seven dollars so um you know that's cool
you might be able to charge a little bit
more if you had a really nice condition
one they all look pretty circulated
really to the naked eye um
susan b is kind of nicer but still
nothing too special except for it is u.s
currency you can spend it still go to
the banks today if you want to and ask
for you know dollar coins and sometimes
you get these sometimes you get the new
presidential dollars but i've gotten
plenty of these before just a regular
change
asking for it so those are really no big
deal put those over here
roosevelt roosevelt head dime starting
in 1946 is this book right here
um let's see what we got here let's
let's open her on up
uh with roosevelt dimes there's really
no rare date if you had a really really
nice conditioned roosevelt dime you
might be able to get a couple dollars
for it or something like that over
the melt value
but there's nothing really special
you're looking for here and that's my
opinion you can have your own opinion on
that one if you'd like but i see one two
three four five six seven roosevelt
dimes so you have a little value there
again with silver these are 90 silver
coins so with silver being 25 and a half
dollars um an ounce you have a little
bit of value there but um i wish i would
have seen that whole book filled up that
would have been cool but that's the
roosevelt head dime i think one just
kind of fell out but i move that to the
side
here is a buffalo nickel book
let's see what we have here oh look at
that
you have some paper money inside of here
so here's a two dollar bill right on top
kind of interesting not rare by any
means you can get two dollar bills today
easily just go to the bank after two
dollar bills they'll usually have them
and this is a 1976 so um something you
don't see very often a lot of places
they'll just you know ship them right to
the bank they don't carry them too much
but
you know it's fun to see
some people you know carry these just
for the sake of giving out a tip in two
dollar bills
i have a silver certificate you can
always tell that by the blue seal here
and the fact that at the bottom it says
one dollar in silver payable to the
bearer on demand so of course back in
the day prior to you know 1965 you could
take one of these right here and say hey
i want a silver dollar so a morgan or a
peace dollar and trade your paper for
actual value and silver so that was
always fun
nothing too special here if you have a
really nice one or a fun serial number
those can have some value but these are
pretty tattered except for this one
right here which still is kind of
tattered to be honest it has a lot of
creases but uh nicer than the other ones
um no real value though uh i i was
giving these away for a second as like a
bonus when people were buying stuff from
me but
um i ran out i've run out so but that's
still you know you still have some money
here and uh something to talk about and
they're still kind of cool i mean this
is this is still money you could use
today if push come to shove i wouldn't
do that just because maybe the two
dollar bill but you know the silver
certificates are fun just to collect and
hold and have a little bit of extra
value just a little bit
um let's go through the buffalo nickel
collection
here's a 1920s again 9.7 million on that
right there so nothing too special and
you look at the date you can barely even
see it it's so worn down so nothing
fancy there
looks like some of these might have been
filled at one point but
not right now
what else we got
um
with these books too you kind of want to
really go in them and make sure that
those dates that they are put into are
the actual date for instance this right
here has the uh it's back turned to us
hold on a second
so i mean can we really even know what
the date is with the back turn nope so
let's see it says it's a was a 1927 s
um
how do you tell that you know what i
mean it's got the big uh line through
right there somebody cut a cut a line
through it unfortunately and you can't
even see the date but they just put it
there
so again the the buffalo nickels with
the date they're worth a little bit
extra um like you know dealers when they
sell them they'll sell them sometimes
for like 75 cents a piece sometimes a
little bit more sometimes a little bit
less
so you know when you when it comes to
appraising a collection like this what
are you going to pay for because down
the road the ultimate goal is to either
fill one of your books or maybe sell it
um if you are buying a collection so
you know dateless buffalo nickels are
you going to be able to sell those or
are you going to try to you know do the
technique where you bring the date out
you have to really kind of evaluate that
kind of stuff and kind of think about
what you would do with it and uh how you
would value it based on that
um you probably want me to say hey you
know spectacular what are you paying for
those um for dateless buffalo nickels
i'm really not even interested in them
to be honest with you dateless buffalo
nickel
dated buffalo nickels
i have a little interest in them you
know most of them are common though and
especially in this collection so far
they've been common uh not a whole lot
of value there
um
you know
i don't want to throw a number out at
you because you yell at me but there's
not a lot you can do with those you know
fill your own books for fun for sure
pass them on to some friends
collect them in a big pile
but
a lot of that stuff is just you know
just very common very common
unfortunately
here are some wheat cents this is a
lincoln cent collection starting in 1941
this is the number two book
hopefully the number one books in here
so
nothing too rare in all of these
i'm looking for anything that might be
out of place a lot of this is actually
filled which is nice
this is actually kind of a neat
book because you could uh just finish
this up already i'm seeing that a few
things are in the wrong place like right
here is a steel cent 1943 and it's in
the 1960 spot so that is a steel cent
not supposed to be there so
um
interesting what happened here with the
collection here is
some canadian stuff on this side
um older canadian sense nothing of real
value here
and again you know you put 1963 it looks
like it's been scratched in here with
this uh canadian set i'm trying to
try to get this out because i just want
to see if that truly is the date you
know
so let's punch out the back of it a
little bit 1963 so yeah so again you
know the collector um right here just
made their own
thing out of the book which is what
people do a lot of times man they just
make their own collection and coin
collection coin collecting is for an
individual
you know it's just what the individual
wants and this is what what they wanted
maybe this was len what she wanted to do
just put some canadians in the back
right there and that's totally fine
there's no you know laws against that at
all um
but when you appraise something that's
what you're going against kind of you're
kind of going against what the
um collector wanted to do
and uh not a lot of value there's
nothing too rare in that lincoln set
book it's nice to see it's almost
complete i can probably finish that one
up no problem
um this
this might be cool
a type collection of 20th century united
states coins so this potentially could
have some real value in there
i want to see it i want to see let's see
what we got here type collection come on
uh
oh look at that
a
1902 indian headset so again um
off the top of my head that's not a rare
coin but
luckily for me i have access to the
red book of coins right here at my
fingertips it's so easy just to go ahead
and go into the book find small sense
you're looking for indian you're looking
for was again 1902
and you will find 1902
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like i want to see like a flying eagle
or something like that but that was a
little bit earlier
1902
indian head 87 million were minted
unfortunately and again ignore these
numbers try to get two dollars out of a
1902 indian headset you will not do it
you will not be able to get that price
unfortunately
um you can wish all you want but that's
not going to happen here is
so you got a regular wheat cent here
there's the memorial sent so it came a
little later
um 1899 liberty head
1899 liberty hold on a second
is that a little special
let's see again luckily we have the red
book i don't memorize the dates i'm not
uh you know the coin dealer's been doing
this all his life they remember stuff i
got other things that i have to do and i
came into coin collecting a little bit
later in life thank goodness for red
books um i can put a lot of my thoughts
over here that are important and then uh
mintage numbers in this book
that can help me out um 1899 right
and 26 million were minted um might be a
little bit better of a coin just by a
little bit but
not too much it's not too special at all
but and especially with the condition
the v nickel it's pretty rough
not silver unfortunately
here is a
1967
jefferson nickel
1930 buffalo not special mercury dime
1943 very common date on the mercury
dime but it is 19 90 silver a little
value there
here's a little bit more value because
you got two half dollars that are common
but 90 silver a 90 silver quarter
and a um 1965 kennedy so 40 silver on
that sorry i had the book down there and
please be some value over here on the
end oh man i wanted to see it i wanted
to see these spots right here filled the
morgan and the peace dollar
that would have been fun but
unfortunately we don't have those filled
here's a 90 silver quarter
oh so this is birthier so
um i guess len was born in 1960. so
that's kind of neat that they have a
little birthier spot
so
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len had
96 or a 90 silver quarter and 90 silver
roosevelt dime for her birth year that's
cool
i've never seen that before
so a few coins in here have some value
just based on silver price but there's
nothing special condition wise anywhere
nothing special rarity
i'll add up the silver price here when
i'm done with the books and get you a
total
and let's see a jefferson nickel
collection looks like that's going to
finish us out
darn you think this would be all filled
up
um okay hold on a second hold on a
second i this toning right here that's
going on i can tell from a mile away
what that is that nasty toning on the
jefferson nickels
generally
is from a wartime nickel so let's pop a
couple of these out and let's see if
that is the case wartime nickels just
tell them so gross
uh unfortunately but they are you know
they do have some silver content in
there so yeah big d right there big
denver that does signify
a wartime nickel
and uh p
one of the few coins actually have the p
mint mark on them it's a philadelphia
and that is a wartime nickel so i think
that these are our wartime nickels i'll
look into them add them all up and get
back to you on the value of those
all right so i'm done going over the
value of this box of coins now this is
what i came up with now this is only the
silver coinage is inside of here so 228
dollars and 16 cents is what i got uh
with the silver value alone i use
coinflation uh the website
coinflation.com a lot to determine what
the value is of a silver coin um i ended
up going to ngc's website um for some of
the foreign stuff it was just really
easy at a glance to see what some of the
content was with that silver and then i
came up with a price based on silver
being 25.50 per ounce
now already the silver has come down a
little bit so realistically that price
is already a little bit lower that's the
way it goes and that's also why a coin
shop
doesn't take this and you know do it
over a couple days time or a days period
of time you know they just boom they try
to evaluate as quick as possible
gather everything up and then try their
best to sort it out and flip it as quick
as possible usually that's that's the
goal right
buy and sell so that is only the silver
value
now i do want to say that some of the
silver coins um here like the um
uh 40 half dollars or the
wartime nickels these guys right here
they tend to bring in a little bit less
on average
and some people will agree that to that
some people will disagree um in my
experience
like like dealers uh people that sell to
me man they've offered to sell me like
40 percent half dollars at less than
silver price at less than the spot
because they're just trying to move them
and oftentimes they buy those at less
than spot and some dealers only buy
silver at less than spot because of the
situation where i just mentioned where
silver drops pretty uh you know
instantaneously sometimes so
you know that's the silver only price uh
do with it which you would like to um as
far as the rest of the collection uh you
know there was some spendable money in
there quite a bit of u.s currency i'm in
the united states so it would be easy
for me to take that and just literally
just spend it so there was around
probably
um 20 30 worth of just regular spending
money and so that's obviously some value
right there so um you know you can add
another 30 to this i mean you're almost
at 260
right there from just spending money and
then the rest of the stuff you know the
buffalo nickels and um you know there's
an indian headset a little bit of uh
poundage as far as the wheat cents go
not even that many of the foreign coins
you could probably put this somewhere
just under 300
for a value
as a dealer i wouldn't want to pay
anything over like 270 dollars for this
because you know you got to really try
to
flip it you know
and
this kind of collection is going to be
something you have to peace out i mean
some people are only into silver coins
some people are only into buffalo
nickels so
it'd be a lot of work even though it's
just a small amount of coins this is a
great starter set for somebody that you
know would like to get into coin
collection that would be awesome for
them to have this and just start their
journey
but yeah somewhere under 300
i think is a decent price for this right
here um a dealer is going to pay you
much less even that 270 dollar
number that i kind of gave you you'd
probably pay much less than that
just because it's it's
a lot to move and
um a lot of different things here and
some things are like i said a little bit
more difficult uh the foreign silver the
wartime nickels the 40
silver coins it's those are difficult
more difficult to move than just regular
90 so uh that's my evaluation and uh you
know lynn you got some money here that's
that's cool it's always nice to see that
you got a little bit of money but i got
to go for now let me know down in the
comments what you think if you agree if
you disagree if uh if you like what you
saw if you want to see more stuff like
this i gotta go for now though
spectacular this guy
is out
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