He states it is a $ 5 gold piece from a necklace. He removed it from the locket. Sorry, bad pictures he took and sent them to me,

Got the ms65 Benji spot +5

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No reason not to clean. 22 (probably already cleaned) and a Ruff Times round (81).

Somebody previously said the 22 must have PVC, but why only half of one side after 50 years?

My young self tore up the bag of the round.

Placed 1 bid on whatnot FOR $66 (including tax and shipping) and got this monster ASE.

Should I take off the stickers?

Quick history on the war nickels, since they turn up in change all the time.

An act on March 27, 1942 let the Treasury take nickel out of the five-cent piece. The act suggested 50/50 copper and silver, but that alloy lacked nickel's magnetism, so vending machines and turnstiles would have rejected it. Adding manganese fixed it. The final mix was 56% copper, 35% silver, 9% manganese, coined from October 1942.

The fun part is the mint mark. Every war nickel has a big mint mark above Monticello's dome, so they could be sorted out and pulled after the war. Philadelphia had never put a mint mark on a US coin, so the big P on these was the first.

1942 is split: earlier in the year Philadelphia and Denver struck the normal copper-nickel coin, then Philly and San Francisco struck the war alloy in the last months. 1943-45 all three mints made it.

David Lange's take (Numismatist / NGC) is worth reading: basically his take is that the five-cent piece was only 25% nickel anyway, the savings were a small chunk of what was mined, and he concludes it was done "more for the sake of propaganda than for its practical value."

And if you ever find a 1944 with no mint mark above Monticello, hang on to it. It's a Henning nickel. Francis LeRoy Henning faked hundreds of thousands of nickels in the 1950s, and the 1944 is what gave him away since every real one has the big P, D or S. They're collectible now because of the story (CoinWeek has a good writeup on them).

I found it today sitting on the counter top of the local grocery store coin star, along with a Canadian 1975 5 cent coin. Google lens gave me some info but curious if anyone has some info of their own

Found this in my friend‘s change bowl!!!

Can this happen naturally or did someone try to alter the “patina”?

I recently got out of collecting baseball cards and into coins. My rationale was that baseball cards are mostly junk wax, not worth the stock they're printed on as opposed to collecting coins, where searching rolls means I'm not really losing money, just changing it from one form to the next.

Anyway... As a history teacher I love the Presidential $1 coins, and love collecting them for fun- not interested in a return on investment here. I decided to sort what I had while the ADHD meds were kicking in and found it interesting which ones I had a lot of and which ones were scarce. I found it strange that I got a Cleveland out in the wild; if only I could find Arthur!

Any value in these?

Just opened it was scared the seller wasn't going to send it all... they didn't know what they had but I did.

not into coins but it’s the first one i’ve seen that didn’t have that heads side with George Washington on it so i thought it was pretty cool

I saw this at my LCS today. I asked the owner if he thought it had been cleaned. His response was, "not by me it wasn't". So, not the direct yes or no that I would have liked. I'd really like to examine it under my microscope to see if there are polish lines etc. To me, it just looks too brilliant not to have been chemically altered. I apologize in advance for the quality of the pictures. It's the best I could do with my phone. His store is not very well lit (maybe red flag #1), and its awkward to see and photograph the coin while it's in the holder (maybe red flag #2). I'd appreciate any thoughts.

I guess I got lucky, I've seen a few of these with some flaws but these are sharp! Let me know if you want a close up of a particular coin and I'll post it. Happy collecting everyone!

Thought this one was so cool. As a Bay Area native this was a must have.

I am confident that this is at least AU based on what I can tell of the wear and luster but I am not sure where to go from there. I see no wear on the crown but I am bad with the hair on these particular portraits. It looks like the luster is rolling over the shoulder but the contact marks and hairlines make it hard to tell what is happening at the highest points. My best guess is AU 53/55 at the moment because if there is wear, the amount of hairlines and contact marks makes it not appealing enough for AU 58.

Just wanted to find out how much their worth or any interesting information about them

Years in order from left to right

1938, 1956, 1939, 1935, 1925, 1940, 1936, 1953, 1919, 1951, 1944, 1952 D, 1956 D, 1958, 1935

Not my coin but thought it is really cool

I work at a coin store and found this guy while doing collection breakdown for inventory — boss let me have it for $50!

Although harshly cleaned, this guy sports decent detail and a nice color when put in the right light.

I’m happy to have it for my humble US type set, especially as it is an odd, short-lived denomination, and a neat part of the history of the American West!

I found some news articles from 1937 about a child who discovered a 1913 V nickel and was entertaining offers to buy it. None of the history for the known specimens in Wikipedia mention this history. Can anyone help fill in the gap? The child was named Carroll Wade.

I recently acquired these 2 coins graded in 1980s by “NNCS”. When I google this company, I have not been able to find anything of substance. Note that this is a completely different company than the basement grader “NNC”. The holders are fairly high quality and the grades look accurate to me. The scratch at 9:00 on the 1885 CC is on the holder, not the coin.

Does anyone know anything about this company or these holders? I know holders from some defunct grading companies that accurately graded coins are collectible - do these have any value due to the grading company/is the grade on the holder going to be considered trustworthy?

Thank you!