These 10 coins have been in my grandma's house forever. I'm just wondering what they'd be worth, and if they'd be anything more than melt value. (I'm really new to this so bear with me) The years are: 1878 7tf 1880 S 1887 O 1889 O 1889 O 1890 O 1891 1891 1896 1898
They are nice original uncleaned coins. Unfortunately, nothing rare or expensive by date and mintmark. Perhaps someone with better eyes here on CT can tell if you've got any rare varieties.
Definitely worth more than what, their $16 melt value? Morgan and Peace dollars carry a nice premium. For common morgans I would say $20-25 each.
It looks to me like some of the coins are cleaned, like the '78 and '80-S. One of the '89's and one of the '91's are damaged, and that '91 also has some other problems as well.
I'm not sure if any of the coins are cleaned. I certainly never cleaned them and I think my grandma just kept them in a box with a bunch of other coins I'll ask about over time. I think she forgot about the coins so I don't know if they are cleaned.
There are many ways to "clean" a coin. Sometimes just rubbing a coin with a cloth will leave "hairlines" in the coin and give it a "cleaned" appearance. When I enlarged your photos, it looked like there were hairlines in the first two coins, although it could just have been the way the photos were taken.
It looked to me like some of them were hairlined, too, and the rim damage on those two would definitely relegate them to a details grade. Chris
