Hey everyone,
My grandpa collected these coins from his father and decided to gift them to me and my brother as a present. He said that we should find someone to evaluate their worth and sell them. I know there are coin shops all around the country, but I’m afraid I might get scammed. What I mean is that I don’t want to sell them to the person who estimates their value for obvious reasons.
So I’m asking you guys, if you can estimate their value for me. Even a (wide) price range would be helpful, because I don’t have any coin knowledge. They’re surely more worthy than their pure value in gold.
Some info: The Kennedy coin is a 70g 900/1000 gold coin. It was bought back in 1964 after president Kennedy’s death.
The copper (I reckon) coin is a 1 cts coin (swiss Francs). It was made in 1920.
The Napoleon III coin is a 5 Francs coin from the Empire of France, surely made out of gold too.
Thank you very much in advance for your precious time guys.
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That’s cool, actually. I would keep them if I was you!
Idk how much they are worth, you may try repost here: [https://www.reddit.com/r/coins/](https://www.reddit.com/r/coins/)
A rule of thumb is to get a quote from different shops in different cities to be sure.
Pure gold worth for the firs, if it’s eeally an insane 70g: ~6000 CHF.
You take the weight and the type of gold (900) and plug it into a current gold price calculator.
I doubt this is worth more than the material value because gold price is insanely high right and if it‘s that big it‘s not a coin, more a commemorative medal and probably given out in pretty big quantities (I have a smaller one from a pope, not really worth much per googling).
You can also search the specific coins on the internet and see what they go for on ebay and the likes. The Napoleon seems to be around 540 CHF for collectors. Gold value 140 CHF.
If you want a proper appraisal just go to two, three big gold shops like philoro, Degussa and one or two small collectible shops.
If I was in your shoes: I’d take those coins to an antiquities shop that deals with old gold coins and then ask for their opinion … Which should not cost anything.
And for obvious reasons: You can’t trust just that one single shop … you’d take your coins to a 2nd shop and ask there too. The numbers might vary a lot, depending on if the shop owner likes what you brought (e.g. they might be specialised in European coins from the Middle Ages and not like anything that’s “too modern” for their taste; you get what I mean … ) and if they think they have the right kind of clients they might re-sell this to later on …
The real value will probably be somewhere in-between.
Since you did not specify where you live: I will post links to such shops from around the area where I live:
* [https://www.muenzeneppler.ch/](https://www.muenzeneppler.ch/) …. Solothurn
* [https://www.muenzenshop-bern.com/](https://www.muenzenshop-bern.com/) …. Bern
* [https://www.exgold.ch/](https://www.exgold.ch/) … Basel
and so on, and so on … Google should not have a hard time to find these shops. Any Swiss city will have one or two of these.
I suggest keeping this, 70g coin of 9/10 gold is about 63g of pure gold, so it is around 5-6k CHF
the 5 franc gold coin I have no idea how much it weighs
If you want to sell it, there is a gold dealer I trust, [echtgeld.ch](http://echtgeld.ch) is their website, but keep in mind their markup/down is always worse than the actual price
You have to look at the face value of the coin, the amount that was minted, material and weight.
You have the certification and the purchase receipt that adds value to it.
Luck.
The 1-cent coin is copper and should not be worth anything.
Here you could buy one for CHF 8: [https://www.schweizer-geld.ch/bundesmuenzen-1-rappen/de/6-1/CH-BM-0.01-1850-1941](https://www.schweizer-geld.ch/bundesmuenzen-1-rappen/de/6-1/CH-BM-0.01-1850-1941)
La pièce avec Kennedy est une médaille commémorative et non une pièce officielle. Elle vaut en principe son poids en or. S’agissant d’un alliage à 90%, cela fait 63 grammes d’or pur au prix de 109 CHF, cela fait environ 6’850 francs.
La 2ème pièce semble être une pièce de 1 centime de 1920, elle vaut entre 8 et 40 CHF selon l’état. Source : [https://www.schweizer-geld.ch/monnaies-federales-1-centime/fr/6-1/CH-BM-0.01-1850-1941](https://www.schweizer-geld.ch/monnaies-federales-1-centime/fr/6-1/CH-BM-0.01-1850-1941)
La 3ème pièce est une pièce d’or française courante, appelée “Napoléon III”. Le prix varie également suivant l’état de la pièce entre 600 et 1000 CHF environ : [https://www.tresordupatrimoine.fr/7202329-20-francs-or-napoleon-iii-tete-nue-1857a.html](https://www.tresordupatrimoine.fr/7202329-20-francs-or-napoleon-iii-tete-nue-1857a.html)
Ai are good for that. Try grok or chatgpt ?
Please dont crucify me lol
My recommendation is that you only sell them if you’re a junkie needing a quick fix. I hope it helps.