What would happen if the U.S dollar was worth nothing?
See this spilled ink? It’s a great metaphor.Almost every time we make a trade we are better off using currency. It makes our trades better. Trades make both traders happier. Much happier. Currency makes both traders trade more. Happier still. How much more? Well that depends on the costs of making a currency, but more on what kind of trades we can find. From the things we want. What we want spills like ink over into everything on this planet. Every trade sucks up more value and imbues more things with value. Our needs fills everything with value.When we see a tree we think that the wood is made of stuff from the ground. In stead it is made from air. From C02. The tree is sucked up in the air, instead of pushed up from the ground.When we see a single dollar we think the value is given to it by governments or minters or the debt it is created from. Instead the value comes from our needs. The ink of our want has spread into the dollar paper making it worth something. Trades make currency get value. And every thing in the value chain is eventually worth something.So when ever you see things of value remember nothing is pushing it to be valuable. It’s our wants that pulling the value in it. Dollars are worth something as long as currency makes trading easier and therefor more valuable. Not because governments say so. Not because a banker exchanges it. Those are just costs.
Is a 1972 S mint penny worth anything?
Circulation coins with the S mint mark started to show up in 1968 to 1974. In 1975 the S mint marked coins went back to being made in proof only for proof sets. The S standards for San Francisco alright but in 1955 The San Francisco mint was renamed an Assay office and was not made a mint again to 1980. So the S on your coin is actually a assay office mark not a mint mark. Here we have a very historical coin but one that has no monetary value unless in high mint state.
Is a 1972 half dollar coin worth anything?
Please read the article in the first link below to be sure your coin is indeed an error strike. The proper term for this type of error is rotated die. Values are difficult to find, so I would recommend finding a local coin expert or two possibly a coin dealer or from a coin club for an evaluation. I hope that helped.
1942 Half Dollar Coin With Screw On Back Of It. Is It Worth Anything & Why Is There A Screw On The Back?
Hm, a 1942 half dollar will be made of 90% silver, so it'll definitely be worth something--for bullion value, if nothing else. If you mean someone has driven a screw into the back of it, it was probably done to attach it to something as a decoration. Unfortunately that will significantly affect the condition of the piece, lowering its value. I don't know what these coins are worth today offhand, but I can say that 1942 half dollars were fairly common, especially the Philadelphia ones. Look for the mint mark on the reverse, just above and to the left of "HALF DOLLAR". If there's no mint mark, it was made in Philadelphia. S is San Francisco and is significantly less common than Philadelphia; D is Denver and is even slightly less common. There may be a difference in value between a Philadelphia coin and the other two, but likely not between the S and D. To find the actual value, your best bet is to google for coin values, but you'll have a little difficulty judging because of the screw. Figure, you find a site that explains how to estimate the condition of the coin, then knock it down a grade or two because of the screw--that should get you somewhere in the ballpark.
Is a 1972 Trinidad and Tobago 25¢ coin worth anything besides being a cool lucky coin?
I have loads of coins from 1965 onwards, they're worth what's printed on them.
I have a 1972 gold Eisenhower dollar coin. is it worth anything more than a dollar?
Unless the dollar coin is in Mint Proof condition, the answer is not much more. You can check out Heritage Coins online to compare your coin to what the market is looking for and willing to pay for it.