Your opinion about these half Dol, one dime and a 3 cents. Please

samocain

Hello guys I am completely new to these coin world. I was hoping someone could share their knowledge with me.

I received a safe box Wich belonged to my great grandfather, he passed away near 1950, so the safe box was unopened for a long time.

I opened and found 3 American coins.

1. 1867 Half Dol
2. 1883 One dime
3. 1861 3 cent

I will be very thankful if you could helpe me your opinion about these three coins.

THY.

may

The images are gone,, but I got a peek at some of them before you edited it. The 3 cent is around $75 from what I saw, and the dime is about $15, both common dates. The half dollar is a tougher date, and about a $115 coin. Again, we cannot properly assess them without pictures.

I would not sell them, keep them as a memory of your late father.

Edit: The three cent is counterfeit, I was tired ok!

samocain

Hello, thanks for your answer.
I place the pictures on the post body and not like an attachment.

I thought it will be easier to have a look.

The images are up again.

Sorry about that.

@Ownerofawheatiehorde said:
The images are gone,, but I got a peek at some of them before you edited it. The 3 cent is around $75 from what I saw, and the dime is about $15, both common dates. The half dollar is a tougher date, and about a $115 coin. Again, we cannot properly assess them without pictures.

I would not sell them, keep them as a memory of your late father.

may

@samocain said:
Hello, thanks for your answer.
I place the pictures on the post body and not like an attachment.

I thought it will be easier to have a look.

The images are up again.

Sorry about that.

@Ownerofawheatiehorde said:
The images are gone,, but I got a peek at some of them before you edited it. The 3 cent is around $75 from what I saw, and the dime is about $15, both common dates. The half dollar is a tougher date, and about a $115 coin. Again, we cannot properly assess them without pictures.

I would not sell them, keep them as a memory of your late father.

Thank you, I must have caught it between an edit. I have just noticed the damage and the “S” mintmark on the half, but my $110 estimate still stands though.

jayPem

Half dollar appears to possibly have small chopmarks.
I don't recall ever seeing small chops on a seated half before, possibly @OriginalDan will stop in for a look..

coinbuf

The half has been counter stamped after it left the mint and harshly cleaned, perhaps fine details but the harsh cleaning reduces the value of what was a nice collector coin to under $100 or so.

The dime looks cleaned also, maybe around fine or very fine detail condition, common date and not worth very much in this condition, around $30 or so.

The 1861 three cent coin looks to be a counterfeit, not much value but there are collectors that like to collect counterfeits.

samocain

@jayPem said:
Half dollar appears to possibly have small chopmarks.
I don't recall ever seeing small chops on a seated half before, possibly @OriginalDan will stop in for a look..

Hello, and thanks for your reply.

I just googled about chop marks.... I am just gandering knowledge.

I live in Chile, so I don't know much about American coins, and the amount of info online is overwhelming.

🧐

OAKSTAR

I don't know. I'm not sure if they are real. They almost look cast. But I'm not an expect. I'm more interested in what these are..

OGDan

@jayPem said:
Half dollar appears to possibly have small chopmarks.
I don't recall ever seeing small chops on a seated half before, possibly @OriginalDan will stop in for a look..

Small counter marks, not Chinese chopmarks.

samocain

@OAKSTAR said:
I don't know. I'm not sure if they are real. They almost look cast. But I'm not an expect. I'm more interested in what these are..

Hello, thanks for your reply.

I I'm interested too. In the safe box I found many old coins, but just these 3 were from USA I can post a picture of the old safe and the other coins around the world.

For Chilean coins the oldest one was from178X can't figure out last number....

Well that's the source of these coins.

I am just intrigued.

THY

jayPem

@OriginalDan said:

@jayPem said:
Half dollar appears to possibly have small chopmarks.
I don't recall ever seeing small chops on a seated half before, possibly @OriginalDan will stop in for a look..

Small counter marks, not Chinese chopmarks.

Yup, at first glance they reminded me of the small chops common on portrait 8's but after zooming in they look like small Jewelers or silversmith punches.

dcarr

The 1861 3-cents is a vintage counterfeit. That makes it tricky to sell, but there are collectors for such things (such as myself). To the right person, it is worth as much, if not more, as a vintage counterfeit than a similar genuine coin.

The half dollar has some stray character punch marks on it (applied by some individual outside the mint). The backwards "4" would be from a punch that would be intended to use on a die (so that when that die stamps something else, the "4" would appear correct).

Cougar1978

They would go in 2x2 a dealers raw coin bourse tray inventory at shows. Pulled out of circulation ages ago?

samocain

@Cougar1978 said:
They would go in 2x2 a dealers raw coin bourse tray inventory at shows. Pulled out of circulation ages ago?

Hello, are you asking when the half dol coin was pulled out of circulation?

I don't have any clue beside, the fact that this coin has remained on a safe box for at least 50 years.... Nothing else known about it.

Same thing for the fake trime an the dime.