u/CherryWanders

Found this extra shiny quarter in a bag - is it a proof, worth pulling out?

Found in circulation by someone in my family and just tossed in a bag with other loose coin like it's not silver.

Such a cool coin.

Why though?

I thought maybe jewelry but some of those holes are in really bad places for jewelry pieces. Why is one covered in silver? What happened to these poor pennies?

Well that's fun!

Getting around to the penny books this morning if you're following my adventures through the family coin collection. I'm loving opening these books to find the little extra sprinkles of coin not asked for by the folders.

I can not find this as a listed error - I admit I only poked at 3 websites. Did my Memaw find something here?

My mom has recently gone on hospice care at her house and I've come home to see her to the river. Her house is 2 steps from hoarded so I've been cleaning and organizing to keep myself busy.

She and her mom and dad were avid coin collectors and I've stumbled across the collection and am trying to catalog it. While searching I found these 10 - whatever-these-are. Let me say - I KNOW THEY AREN'T COINS - people feel the need to point that out like I think Ive found some rare coins, and some of them have done so rather rudely when I asked after these in the coin community.

I searched with AI extensively and it actually sent me here because I cannot find any documentation on this set so probably not from one of the big Franklin Mint type places. There is no original packaging. They are 2 inches wide, with a ridged edge (like a quarter) and weigh 67g - 69g each. No idea what metal (something white judging by a streak test - grey) I have 10 - all different. There are no markings that I can find - not about the metal and not about the maker. The coin representation on each side is accurate although liberties have been taken with sizing on each pieces. The fronts seem to be accurate to original coin size but the backs are often bigger (see pic of front/back/side of the same piece - they are all that way)

Trying to find out who made these, how they were sold, do they have a value besides being cool art pieces? Sorry for the crap pictures - they're gold toned and very hard to photograph all together.

Since AI couldn't find anything similar and I have reverse image searched these into the ground...

Here I am.

HELP HELP HELP!

Please.

There are 5 nickel books in the family collection. Happy surprise to find more buffalos as well as some liberty head nickels.

*Posted again b/c I added the wrong pic to the other and couldn't figure out how to edit the photos.

Decided I might as well just work my way through the books and catalog all of them after finding a container of buffalo nickels and coins from the South African Mint (I have no idea what that's about - I set the boxes aside because I'm too overwhelmed by all of this American currency to go looking at Africas) Why my family never actually dragged out the books to put the coins they saved in, I'll never understand. I'm pretty exhausted of the change and am hurting from moving it at this point and still have a LONG way to go.

I've heard about buffalo nickels my entire life - the elusive three-legged beastie.

Do most people just write down what they're missing? Not sure how to catalog all of this when it comes to these books - individual coin?

Sorry if I'm spamming too much.

Now working the peace dollar books after finding 3 coins in a bag in my grandfathers tie tack box. I was able to fill in the 1921, 1923 and the 1934D

It's crazy to think that these coins were my grandparents - they didn't purchase them, they pulled them out of circulation. Coin purchases didn't begin until my mom. She has bought graded coins in her lifetime, but my grandparents were just collecting what they got.

Digging through the family collection continues between taking care of mom's needs. Found a pill vial with mercury dimes in it so I hunted down the books and combined 4 people's worth of collecting into one book.

I have tried reverse image searching, searching by text, by description and I cannot find something like this. Has anyone seen this before? I thought it was a fancy coin holder but the front and back are different sized coins. Is this a commemorative something - part of a set?

My mom has just gone on hospice and I'm making an attempt to organize what she has collected in addition to what my grandparents left me when they passed (that I've never had the maturity to look at that I do now at 51) I asked mom about this and she doesn't know where it came from or whose part of the collection it's from. My guess is my grandmother - gold was her speed, my grandfather was more about the silver.