i looked under coins and talked to coin people who say they have no idea. it looks like a Saint Gauden double eagle but it is mini sized, smaller than a dime. i cant seem to find any info. Is it worth anything?? is it rare??
2007-04-10 18:12:43 · 4 answers · asked by bubsmom06 2 in Games & Recreation ➔ Hobbies & Crafts
I have been looking on every internet site and i have looked in numerous books, it has been over a year that i have looked for info on this coin. I was told that it could be commemorative or from a private mint. I was also told that it does not exist. I have heard that someone may have paid 4 or 5 dollars for it back in 1914 and that it was a commemorative coin for the 1st world war, but these are all guesses. No book or coin expert or website can say for sure and it is making me crazzzzzyyyy!!
2007-04-10 18:37:06 · update #1
It is not a coin that was minted by the U.S. mint. It seems to me to be one of the group of mini coins that have been made over the years. It is not from 1914. It was probably made during the 1960's for that was when all kinds of coin type things showed up. At one time back in the 1980's I saw an ad in a coin paper for a group of 40 something different, mini coins. Ranging from a mini large cent to a double eagle. It even included varieties of the coins. The part that has me confused some, is the jagged edges, it sounds like someone did that and not the people that made them. The reason you can not find any info, is that the so called coin is a novelty and not a true coin or collectors item. It was a fad that died out, even though sets of our current coinage in miniature is sometimes advertised in the coin papers of today. Hope this helps and I know this is not the answer you would have liked, sorry.
2007-04-11 15:20:04 · answer #1 · answered by Taiping 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you sure it is made out of copper? Make sure you haven't found a double eagle gold coin. You might have also found a commemorative coin of some type, or a coin from another country. Find a coin book and look for the coin on your own. You can never tell about coin people. Dealers tend to devalue coins so they can get it from you really cheap and sell them for a hefty profit. Others tend to have expertise in their own field of interest. You never know if you have something worth pennies or thousands of dollars until you research it. Try looking in a library or a book store in the collectors section.
2007-04-10 18:26:43 · answer #2 · answered by Thomas S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Penny has variety of a muddled commencing place, yet is ordinarily believed to have originated from the previous English be conscious for 'pawn' (as interior the experience of a pledge or token). It has surely no longer something to do with the U. S. Treasury, as pennies existed long previously there replace right into a US treasury. Dime additionally comes from the previous English be conscious 'disme' which skill ten or 10th. There used to truly be a 5 cent coin noted as a nil.5 disme. Nickle did no longer replace into the call for a 5 cent coin till the early 1900s, i think of. They began making 5 cent funds out of nickle alloy and the call caught. 'greenback' isn't a us be conscious the two. There are a buttload (the sturdy length) of countries with currencies noted as greenback. i think of it replace into from some previous ecu coin interior the middle a protracted time, and whilst europe colonized places those places tended to maintain the call for their forex. i might desire to be making a number of that up. undecided. And now you recognize. And understanding is 0.5 the conflict.
2016-10-21 14:33:33 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you sure its not gold?
2007-04-10 19:12:38 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋