JayKay

More information's needed. You didn't say whether the coins are part of an uncirculated set or a proof set, or whether the set contains only those 3 denominations or all 6. Depending on which you have, I've found retail values in the approximate range of $13 to $32 with a lot of variation. To clarify a couple of points, all modern and most classic US coins carry the word LIBERTY (or a representation of Miss Liberty) so that's not a factor for ID'ing a particular coin. Also, the 25¢ piece is a quarter rather than "quater". Hope that helps with collecting!

With a mintage of 109,281,000, 1977 2p coins are definitely not rare. Unless it's uncirculated or proof it's not going to be worth much if anything above face value. I am a bit perplexed by the weight though: the Royal Mint lists a nominal weight of 7.12 gm which is almost 20% above the weight of your coins. My advice would be to try second scale; if both come in at ~6 gm the coin would have to be examined in person. Aside from the weight-differential question, it was pretty straightforward to find info about current UK coins, such as this for the 2p piece. https://www.royalmint.com/discover/uk-coins/coin-design-and-specifications/two-pence-coin/ Trivia: the wording "NEW PENCE" came about when Britain switched from its old pound/shilling/pence coinage system to decimal pounds. "NEW" was put on all coins to reflect the switch from so-called "old pence" worth 1/240 of a pound to decimal pence worth 1/100 of a pound. After people became accustomed to the new coins, the Royal Mint dropped the word "NEW" from all coins over the period 1982-83.

A quick check with any decent search engine will tell you that you have one of the zillions of reproductions out there. 42,000 US $100,000 gold certificates were printed during December 1934 and January 1935. They were limited to use within the Federal Reserve System and never saw public circulation. They were and still are illegal for private citizens to own. In any case most were destroyed decades ago after electronic transfers became practical.

It's called a double eagle* and was in fact worth $20 when issued. If genuine, it's made of 90% gold so its current value would obviously be much higher. The lack of a mint mark indicates it was made in Philadelphia. That said I'd pay to have the coin evaluated. Based on the pictures, some marks near the date look a bit suspicious but I'm not an expert in fakes. * "Eagle" is the name of the US $10 denomination but IIRC the name never appeared on coins issued at the time.

The scale reads 3.08, not 3.80. That's well within tolerance.

Agree that #1 is PMD. To my aging eyes #2 looks strange. The upset edge appears to be folded over the legends. That shouldn’t be possible at the mint because planchets should go through the upsetting machine before striking. My first though would be to measure its diameter with a decent caliper. US cents are supposed to be 19.05 mm so anything smaller would argue for PMD as well. If it’s full-size then I dunno. That would imply the coin was struck and then upset, which theoretically shouldn’t be possible

Welcome to the hobby! I’ve been collecting for over half a century, and learning new things about coins and currency never stops! Anyway, that peculiarity exists on all Lincoln cents up till the 1960s. There are lots of sites with good closeups - I’ve tended to use PCGS' CoinFacts - and all the images back to 1909 show a lowered "E". My guess is that the letter was that way on the original master and for some reason was never addressed for all those years. In 1968 the Mint decided the cent needed a facelift. There'd been so much wear that the obverse image was becoming quite "mushy", with details lost and mottos starting to merge into the edge-upset. Based on the photos I reviewed, it looks like the 1969 refresh finally kicked the E up by a fraction of a millimeter.

Watching NatGeo's Dr. Pol ... How does his favorite "Holy Moley" sound? Anyway, what can be said about such a FANTASTIC find? Outside of collections and one long-ago surprise* I haven't seen so much silver in one place since I was a kid in the '60s! * During a college winter break I took a part-time job at a local department store. Just before Christmas the proverbial little old lady bought some gifts and plunked down a small bag of silver dollars - mostly common-date Peaces but a decent number of Morgans as well. We spent a good 10 or 15 minutes trying to convince her that she could sell the coins for far more than face value, but she kept insisting she just wanted to "get rid of them" (yes, really). Anyway, the three of us working the counterall had some degree of numismatic knowledge so we split them by interest and value. To this day I wish we could have gotten her to accept an offer, but at least the coins went to good homes. (OK, moral question: has anyone else had a similar experience? How do you deal with someone who hurts themselves financially by ignoring informed advice?)

Thank you! It's more than I've found in the last 3 years combined, although those finds included some minor silver: two Roosies ('56 and '64-D) and a very worn war nickel ('43-P).

I hardly ever find anything - except today I saw that the reject bin at my local Giant had what looked like a double handful of coins in it. After putting the US coins (all common dates) in the store's charity jar I was left with a nice assortment: Canada - 10¢, 1992 and 25¢, 1980 Spain - 5 pesetas, 1980 Greece - 5 cents, 2014 Mexico - 50 pesos (pre-revaluation), 1984 UK - 5p, 2008 Singapore - 5 cents, 1987 Ireland - 1 cent, 2011 plus an MBTA transit token and a bonus free-love era "Connect With an Aquarius" token whose design is NSFW. Nothing spectacular, but still an interesting mix. My guess is that someone picked up common coins from various vacations (the Aquarius one musta been, uh, interesting!) and either finally decided to get rid of them or forgot they were in their change jar.

Tossing in my 2¢ (or 2p) here ... To try to explain the somewhat confusing terminology that's used for US coin types, the term "silver dollar" is the generic name for any of the large $1 coins minted at various times from 1794 to 1935*. Peace dollars are a particular design within that denomination, minted from 1921 to 1935. I.e. all Peace dollars are also silver dollars, but not all silver dollars are Peace dollars. Here's a short overview of the different types minted: US 1 dollar coins The vast majority of US coin types are by convention identified according to their design, usually describing their obverse image. For example a Walking Liberty 50¢ piece bears an image of Miss Liberty in full stride, while a Lincoln cent carries a portrait of our 16th president. But because these names aren't official, some particularly well-known coin types are instead named for their designers rather than their images. That can cause confusion if you're not familiar with the naming conventions. What this has to do with silver dollars is that the type immediately prior to the Peace dollar is called a "Morgan dollar" after its artist, George T. Morgan**. This wiki article gives a lot more details: US Morgan Dollars. It's important to check the designs because both types were struck in 1921 but prices differ widely because there are far fewer Peace dollars with that date than Morgans. For example in circulated condition, a 1921 Peace silver dollar can retail for 5 or 6 times as much as a 1921 Morgan silver dollar. ==================== * Some people continue to refer to later US $1 coins as being "silver dollars" as well, even though circulating versions have all been struck in base metals. ** The disctinction between design and designer has produced some, uh, interesting questions from non-collectors. One asked me if Morgan dollars carried an image of financier J. P. Morgan's wife. Another design series by artist Charles Barber resulted in queries about coins "minted to pay for haircuts" and even one about who "Barbara" is on the coins' obverses!

I signed up so I could answer this one. It’s unlikely to be post-mint damage. 1966 was in the middle of the Great Coin Shortage when silver was removed from higher denominations. The cent and nickel weren’t affected so the Mint was churning out oceans of them as a stopgap. That led to a lot of stress on dies and masters, which in turn caused images to blur and spread. For whatever reason the Mint didn’t address the problem right away; over time legends started to merge into coins' rims and images lost detail, like this 1968 cent. The lowered "E" is WE is more curious. I looked at older cents in my collection and the same misalignment is present on all of them, so it was clearly a long-term oddity. FWIW it’s not found on later coins so someone at the Mint must finally have noticed!

A 1933 St. Gaudens (that no one else knew about, hehe) Any clean Gobrecht dollar. An uncirculated 1932 P/D/S Washington quarter set. A 1916 set - dime (D of course), SLQ and Walker (S mint). Any Stella. ... I can't find a smilie of someone drooling uncontrollably ...

Nothing good in the last couple of weeks, but since early summer: > '63 Roosie and '62 Washington, both VF, from the change box for the office coffee fund > '40 nickel, maybe in F > Three war nickels: a '43-P and '45-P, both VG, and another very worn '45-P, AG at best The war nickels all came from an automated change dispenser at a local supermarket so I assume someone must have dumped them, either accidentally or on purpose.

I was about 10 or 11 years old, back in the early '60s. My mother was getting change for a purchase and the clerk said something like "oh wait a minute, I almost gave you a foreign coin". I looked at it and said "I don't care, I'll take it!!!" The 'foreign' coin was an 1849-O Seated Liberty half in VG/F condition. About the same time I convinced my grandfather to let me go through the cash register in his store whenever I came to visit. He was in an old Polish neighborhood where many of the residents didn't trust banks so coins and bills tended to simply circulate from one shop to the next. I pulled out Indian cents back to the 1870s (however no '77 ), bunches of Barbers, even a couple of shield nickels. Nothing to match that half, though.