I have a coin that, decades ago, my dad and a friend found near the wreckage of an old spanish ship that sank off the florida coast. it is totally gold, and I think I want to sell this coin. I do NOT want to sell it to any of you. BUT: where the heck can you get something like this appraised? What people or service can you trust? I think it's worth more than the gold content b/c it's like hundreds of years old and a historic artifact.
Google it....if it is a Spanish gold coin, it most certainly is worth more than just the gold and if you can establish it came as treasure from a ship wreck it will be worth even more. Post a pic, maybe we can help you find out.... DD
If it's a legit completely gold coin from a old ship, that could definitely be worth a nice chunk of change.
Does it look like any of these: 8 Escudos - in Mexico Doubloon - in Spain 4 Escudos - in Madrid 8 Escudos Doubloon DD
It looks a lot like this: I've already learned a lot by googling (which I'd assumed would be a dead end given all the gold hysteria.) What I've got here is a "cold cob," and was manufactured remotely (away from Spain.) Now the little piece of paper with it makes more sense, and I can compare directly to others at auctions. 2E Bogota (as in Columbia) 1713 PD. WTF? Anyway, now that I look at it, ... it is so cool that I may hang on to it, but i think I have some ideas of how to get it appraised now. Pretty interesting! These really are/were found in shipwrecks around Florida.
I called information after your post, looking for Pawn Stars. How embarrassing. Cheetah strikes again, dammit. Also, thanks fatty. I tried that.
I've got a bronze Roman coin I inherited from my grandfather that might be a Sestertius. Looks a bit like this:
If one of you seriously knows anything about this... is something like a precious rare coin influenced by the prevailing gold market? or is it like "yeah, it's gold, but that's secondary to its perceived value." I'm not a sentimental guy (unless it's like an old family photo or something a family member made, etc), so I want to sell high. Hrmmm.
I'm too sentimental. My house, garage, and a storage unit are filled with the detritus and trivia of not only my life, but the lives of various relatives, some dead, and the lives of various relatives of my SO, likewise mostly dead. As my Dad, the ex-Navy guy (and sadly dead himself for far too many years), used to say when he saw my room, "Time for a clean sweep down, fore and aft!"
It is worth more than the gold in the coin, because collectors will pay a premium, if you have some provenonce, that shows what wreck it was from etc...then it can be worth even more. My guess, and it is just a guess is somewhere north of $1000, and south of $5000.... DD
Send it to NGC http://www.ngccoin.com/index.aspx they will grade it, authenticate and then put it in a sealed case. After that, the appraising will be easy because it is graded. You can then reference their levels of values based on there price guides.
