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I was on facebook earlier and a guy posts these coins for sale.
He wanted 15 bucks for them but I got them for 10 bucks.
there was 18 V nickels, 11 buffalo nickels, 3 war nickels, and 8 indian head pennies.
Good buy or not? Most are common dates and a couple don't have readable dates but otherwise they are in decent shape.
thanks...........Roger
You made money. The Vs, even for common dates, in good condition average about $1.75 each. The war nickels are worth about $1.29 for melt value. You're over the $10 right there alone.
The coin-books might SAY "$1.75" for common low grade v-nickels, but ........ usually hard to find any buyers at those prices, for the common date worn ones. I've seen coin-stores set out dishes on the counter full of buffalo and V-nickels (yes with dates, yes non-dug), for something like .75c each, "take your pick" kind of thing.
And, I know this is off-topic, but what's sad is: when you factor in the "ground kiss" of the V's and buffalos we find detecting, on top of the fact that very few nickels have key-dates to begin with, it doesn't bode well at all, haha. One night I found about a dozen V-nickels at a park scrape. All the "usual" orange-ish-brown condition. And after getting the dates off of the ones I could, I faced the stark reality, that even if I'd found one of the few key-date buffalos or Vs, that in those conditions, would have been laughed out of any coin store. Acckk Silver holds up much better in the soil, and has a lot more key dates in those ranges of years.
Tom, I realize these coins aren't collector grade coins and have very little value, but I only have 25 cents each in the coins. They are surely worth that.
Copper and nickel coins don't hold up well in the ground, and even a key date 1914 D penny I dug a few years ago was only worth about 40 bucks or so.
Silver coins fare much better in the ground and can bring top dollar if you find a key date coin in nice shape..........HH
Silver holds up much better in the soil, and has a lot more key dates in those ranges of years.