jdemartile

The coins I recently purchased were all at close to spot silver, about 40 Roosevelt dimes, 40 or so mercs.. ( got them for $1.00 a piece) Also bought 6 90% halves, 1 Kennedy, 3 Franklin, 1 walking liberty and a barber (all $5.00 a piece). These are the first coins I've bought, otherwise I'm just collecting change over time and looking through it on a rainy day for the special dates or silver.

Well, as far as coins I don't really have an area specifically, mostly whatever I happen to find as most of my coins come from sifting for silver from different sources or metal detecting in CA gold country. What really excited me is old bullion bars especially gold rush era. I mostly prospect for gold and detect for gold and hoards at old homesteads and find a coin every now and then. Nothing special yet but have found good gold on my claim and a old male gold wedding band at another site. Most coins I find are from the 40's to present as the early miners mostly carried gold to pay for what they desired. I have a friend who happened upon a Chinese coin once but don't remember the specifics of that coin. Im a collecter of all that glitters or has historical value I guess.

Hello all and thank you for taking the time to view this thread. I am new to coins but am a gold prospector at heart and I often collect anything relate to precious metals and sometimes find old coins while detecting. Recently a new pawn shop near me opened up and I went in seeing if they had any bullion for sale. The woman said she just received a bunch of 90% silver coins and I bought up all of her halves and dimes at a good price. When I got home I started looking at the coins more carefully and found this one stood out to me right away, after some research I believe it is a fairly desirable coin but that's all I can assume for now. Its for sure a 1892 S barber half dollar that I would say is in very good condition other than the blemish on the shield where it appears someone probably soldered a loop or something to it at one time and now it has been removed. I understand that this would dramatically affect the value, but to my surprise when I took it to a coin dealer near me he quickly wrote it off as being worth melt value, around $6. I have a very hard time believing this and I was hoping for some opinions on this from others. Here are some photo of the coin, any input would be greatly appreciated!

Just wanted to say hello, I'm new to coin collecting and seeking some answers on my first coins Ive collected. Thank you in advance for welcoming to your world