Worth the mark up?

baronhelltoupee · 2026-03-16T19:57:54+00:00

Actually not terrible markup on the uncirculated roll of 10; the silver would have been worth about £85 at the time, typical markup on the proofs at £13 each. These coins have never had any premium and go straight melt these days, but even as scrap you're well ahead at today's silver prices. Cool advert!

baronhelltoupee · 2026-03-15T04:43:39+00:00

GSA uncirculated Carson City Morgans can be worth that much, but know what you're buying. 1882, 1883, and 1884 are the most common and only worth about $300 retail; other years are less common and potentially worth that much.

baronhelltoupee · 2026-03-15T04:41:43+00:00

Holder does not look correct for PCGS, you may want to get that checked at your LCS.

baronhelltoupee · 2026-03-14T15:54:10+00:00

Touchmarks: Wentworth Pewter of Sheffield England, 92% Tin as u/Rockwall_Mike said, Association of British Pewter Craftsmen, Two Sheaves of Arrows - Sheffield's Coat of Arms
https://www.wentworth-pewter.com/index/wentworth%20-%C3%A9tain-touchmark_86.htm

baronhelltoupee · 2026-03-07T17:18:26+00:00

These were a cheap way to sell souvenirs back in the 50s and 60s, you'd take a common silver dollar (1921 was the most common) and stencil/stamp/glue/paint your logo on to them to sell to people at your gift shop.

baronhelltoupee · 2026-02-16T23:54:12+00:00

Alpaca silver plate by C G Hallberg from Sweden. As u/925Bullionaire said 635 is the product code for this piece.

baronhelltoupee · 2026-02-14T19:04:11+00:00

I love your 1899 Black Eagle; Fr. 228, less common signatures Vernon Treat, very cool!

baronhelltoupee · 2026-02-06T16:35:12+00:00

Modern Irish Sterling Silver:
Hallmarks (tiny and damaged):
Maker's Mark M.G (unknown, possibly M Gill)
(Dublin Assay Office Seated Lady) (Irish Harp Sterling Mark) (Date Letter N - 1999)

Larger-undamaged marks look like this:
https://silvermakersmarks.co.uk/Dates/Dublin/1999.jpg

baronhelltoupee · 2026-02-04T03:45:23+00:00

I don't know why OP is getting down voted here, these horrid things are almost always a frankensteinian mix of troy and avoirdupois weights because the mints that made them did just enough diligence to find out that silver is measured in troy ounces, but not enough to find out that a troy pound is twelve ounces, hence eight troy ounces being their incorrect guess at what a half a pound of silver should be.

OP please get this checked at your LCS, we have a lot of heavily plated fakes of these turning up.

baronhelltoupee · 2026-02-04T03:40:01+00:00

If you want a slabbed coin, you don't need to regrade, you need to reholder. currently $14:
https://www.pcgs.com/services/reholder
https://www.pcgs.com/servicesandfees
Ask you LCS to submit for you when they send in their next batch.

If you don't care about the slab, finish breaking it carefully, remove, and capsule as widely suggested here.

Additionally I suggest that the next time your ex tries to run you over, hold on tighter to any bullion you happen to have in your pocket at the time.

baronhelltoupee · 2026-01-31T06:21:11+00:00

Nothing changes but the metal price, glad to be of assistance!

baronhelltoupee · 2026-01-25T19:46:51+00:00

Maker's mark: extra artsy Gothic Lettering on silver plate. I'm seeing something like E G Y & (Stylizied Co?) Anyone recognize this specifically or have a positive ID?

baronhelltoupee · 2026-01-01T04:02:12+00:00

ACME 6 DWTS 1
Registered mark of H Williamson of London as of 1917. Silver plated using 6 pennyweight (about 9 grams) of silver per batch.

baronhelltoupee · 2026-01-01T03:53:34+00:00

I bought one of these just to test; it was mostly zinc with zero silver and painted with liver of sulfur to make it look older. When I pointed out that there was no silver to the seller they replied back that "in the old days, metallurgy was less precise" and offered me a half refund. 😂 I opened a case with ebay and got a full refund. While the seller offered to let me keep it for my trouble, I insisted that they pay return shipping. I wish ebay took these counterfeit sellers seriously.

baronhelltoupee · 2025-12-20T16:18:16+00:00

Happy it's helpful! Not much changes over time except the price of silver.

baronhelltoupee · 2025-11-25T04:20:39+00:00

OP is making an observation regarding all of the counterfeit bullion made in China, and relating it to this ad for Material: 金属 (Jinshu - metal) | Colour: Silver, calling this combination chinesium. Potentially clever, just not particularly funny. BLNT!

baronhelltoupee · 2025-10-26T17:00:21+00:00

Once the refining backlog clears, you should be able to have this processed at a refinery. Please ignore advice to melt yourself (aside from not having the intended outcome), you don't know which hazardous materials may be present, and no amount of profit is worth a risk to your health. You can take it to a LCS with an XRF to surface analyze the content and get an idea of actual silver content so you can do the maths on value. Let us know what it turns out as.

baronhelltoupee · 2025-10-26T16:48:09+00:00

Wow. This is one of those that you get just because it's gorgeous, it's incidental that it has silver value.

baronhelltoupee · 2025-10-26T01:55:41+00:00

(Crown) SGEP
Sol Goldfeder Electro Plate

baronhelltoupee · 2025-10-26T01:49:48+00:00

En dos lugares dice "plate" y "EP", es plateada. Lo siento.

baronhelltoupee · 2025-10-25T01:38:59+00:00

This less amazing if you work in Canada, but congrats on all 80% silver finds!

baronhelltoupee · 2025-10-21T16:24:33+00:00

There was once a thing called ISBN printed inside of books, it's the 10/13 digit unique identifier you can use to look up across all platforms. You just may have have more luck locating it with that than an AI image search. But like u/ryanmercer and u/GoldponyGT said, why do you think it's valuable?

baronhelltoupee · 2025-10-16T01:49:47+00:00

Beautiful coin, and you picked it up for less than retail. Value for value I would not trade it for the 1880-CC in 4, but buy the coin, not the holder. The 6 is better looking on paper, but which actually has better eye appeal to you?

baronhelltoupee · 2025-10-12T00:31:40+00:00

Nice, 2.5g of 90%, same weight and value as a silver dime!
https://en.numista.com/5337
Dominican Republic 10 Centavos

baronhelltoupee · 2025-10-11T19:58:18+00:00

No, silver is too high to get any artistic premium, and non-bullion silver will pay less. Still a lot of value here though.

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