Coins Mint Proof Sets

I see people asking if they can trade the TV commercial "commemorative" 1877 Gold Coin for cash!!!! The thing only costs .95 and then they give you another coin, a silver dollar. That silver dollar even says on the back it is pure silver "clad". The commercial clearly says the coins are both "clad". If someone is thinking they are going to buy for .95 then God help us. Clad means plated, as in covered in gold or silver, or to make it easier gold plated and silver plated. They are probably copper that is plated with the other metals. They are not meant to be confused with being real money and I’m betting they aren’t selling them with the hopes that thousands of people will even remotely believe they are getting for ! Then I see all of the "coin experts" coming in with their brilliant lessons about the value of these coins if they were genuine. If you listen to the commercial it says there were only 2 of these coins ever struck (made at the US Mint) and they are both in the Smithsonian. So these brilliant coin experts telling the other geniuses who are thinking that they might be able to scam someone into buying the fake coins for what they would be worth if they were real – 00-2300 – are insane!!! The actual 2 coins sold for ,000 each in 1909 before the government got them back. Right now they would be worth multi-millions each if they were ever taken out of the Smithsonian Institution, the museum of the United States of America in Washington D.C. – one of the most heavily secured buildings in the country.

Bottom line. If you watch a commercial selling coins for less than face value, please be smart enough to realize they are NOT real and you can NOT get more money than you paid for them unless you find someone else who is even more easily fooled than you are. That was as polite as I could say that. Gold is worth 26 per ounce as of today. The fake coin is said to weigh 2 1/2 ounces. Did you really think you were buying 65 worth of gold for .95!!!??? Silver is worth .63 per ounce today. So, if you are foolish enough to believe that you were going to be getting over 00 worth of precious metal for a 20 dollar bill then you almost deserve to get screwed. You could definitely find someone out there at a burger joint who will believe the coin is real and they will even make change for you, but hen you can pretty much count on getting arrested after they pull your picture off of the video camera. Please have enough intelligence to understand that you shouldn’t do it. Fake money is just fake money. Leave it in the pretty blue box and enjoy it’s beauty. Next time you see a commercial selling money – IT"S FAKE! Don’t buy it.

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I was looking into a commemorative coin and found one I was interested in this being the 2010 Boy Scouts of America Centennial Proof Silver Dollar (BY1), myself knowing that proofs are great for collectors such as myself but i want a other opinion this being will it retain or go up in value at anytime besides the fact that its limited in quanties.

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Three types of coins are in this set. A silver dollar, a clad hald dollar and a W-5. What is a W-5.

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The coin Shows 1953 to 1973 as the dates reflecting the 20th anniversay. It is the same size as a silver dollar. It is tarnished and may be silver. How can I find out what company minted it? Is there any way to value it?

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