wabnoles

Hello there

I know locally where I live I can go to a cash for gold place since they usually buy up old silver coins and they have rough condition dimes, quarters, half dollars, and dollars selling for around melt value. A good place to look online is Ebay... I generally find better luck finding coins closer to retail value while searching through the "Buy it Now" items rather than the open competitive auctions but that's not always the case. Keep in mind the melt value is the absolute lowest value for coins, so if you are seeking out the rough condition half dollars for instance, you generally will not find them for less than $10 USD since silver is selling for around $30 USD/troy ounce. With Canadian money before 1919 they were sterling silver (92.5%), which is a higher grade than the 90% US silver coinage. From around 1920 to 1967 Canadian money was 80% silver. The weights are also different with Canadian coinage vs. American coinage. A good place to look for melt value of Americana and Canadian coinage is www.coinflation.com.

Thanks for the info on the language... the internet is a great thing. I was able to figure out that this is an 1804 Sikh Temple token although of questionable authenticity. The dealer of the coin looks reputable though but it doesn't appear he knows what this is. btw I went "Coinstar Mining" yesterday at my local grocery store and found a 1943 steel penny.

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Saw this coin and I am stumped as to what language that is or what the coin or medal is exactly. Clearly not a type of currency.

I think its pretty straight forward what those coins are

Are they all the same color?

What do the inscriptions say as best as you can make them out? The eagle on the back looks Prussian.

http://www.ngccoin.com/poplookup/World-Coin-Price-Guide.aspx

The price guides do tend to vary but generally stay within similar ranges on the price. I am more of a buyer than a seller of coins but it does depend on where you are intending to sell your coin. I know here in the United States and in Britain among other places www.ebay.com is a good start... from personal experience in seeing coins sold the ones that do the best (sell for the most) are the ones that have good photographs and demonstrate a proper amount of research on the coin so that collectors who look for certain things in coins (such as silver, the Netherlands, rare modern coins, etc.) will be able to find them in a search. A descriptive title helps too. I am sure there are a number of other more experienced collectors on this site who have experience selling who might help.

The "z" is actually a mark to signify silver. You are right about only 157 of them being made and they came in a set. According to the NG Coin website, the Gulden is worth US$2,250 in uncirculated condition and the 2 1/2 Gulden is worth US$1,800 uncirculated. Of course the real value is whatever someone is willing to pay for it.

I was only joking around about the photos of the coins... I just enjoyed looking at the photos. One of these days hope to either make enough money to buy up stuff like this or have the luck to come across them cheap. But photos will do for now.

Its called a joke

Thanks for the coin porn lol... or is it exonumia porn?

Somebody apparently thought it was if they were willing to pay $285 for it

Cool deal... looks like a couple of ten cashes in there too.

One other question... would you have any idea as to the rarity of these types of medals? Do you see them very often?

lol I was thinking the medal you were referring to was the medal in which there was the guillotine scene on the back of it thanks this is definitely an outlyer in my collection but an awesome addition nonetheless

Sorry I forgot to check the links you provided... yes that is my coin exactly! So I guess I stand corrected. Thanks for the input.

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That particular Mainwaring medal referenced (Hennin 472) is actually a different medal. I recall reading some old numismatist journals that reference the particular medal I have as Mossop... while most of his medals would be signed with his full last name, there are at least a couple of medals attributed to Mossop that have as their subjects French Revolution relatd themes and are signed "WM". (http://books.google.com/books?id=7-8SJCqtsEwC&pg=PA90&lpg=PA90&dq=mossop+medal+louis+xvi&source=bl&ots=hI1P_trGg3&sig=xJ4SmYYnZSEAmmtcudHeFh2T7es&hl=en&sa=X&ei=-0e9UPStEIqTyQH8uoFQ&ved=0CDYQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=mossop%20medal%20louis%20xvi&f=false)

Attached are the images. As you can see, it is in rough shape but I got it for a really good price. For reference, this is what the original Loos coin would have looked like: http://www.acsearch.info/ext_image.html?id=139225

Anyway, this is what I have... the sources I saw were rather old and I have no trouble at all with this being a Mainwaring medal.

Ah yes the Coinstar machines... my dad used to work at Winn Dixie and every time we went to pick him up from work I would run by the CoinStar. You'll be amazed what you can find. I recall finding a silver dime, Bahamian money, UAE money, etc. Quite the haul for a kid.

Hey everyone

New to the group and new to the hobby but have been able to learn a few things here and there thanks to the internet. One coin I recently acquired was a 1795 Louis XVI mourning medal. It was a copy done by William Mossop and it was an exact copy of a more well known medal done by Ferdinand Loos. This medal is in tin, or "white metal" as one source described it. The coin itself is not in the best condition, probably in the G or AG range. I am more of a collector of US and foreign coins, so medals and other exonumia are not up my alley so to speak. One question I would have is how rare is this coin? It seems like I have found more descriptions of it online than photos. Also, how valuable would this be if in better condition?