I received two framed coin sets titles 20th century United States coins. They have a coa on the back of the frame from The Kennedy Mint. Can anyone tell me anything about them? Any value? Thanks
There are many versions of those. Here is one https://www.bradfordsauction.com/au...0th-century-framed-coin-collection_D8A42EE812
Thank you. Some of coins look like they were polished, some don’t. I know they weren’t taken out of the frame.
Welcome to CT. I've got a few of those type of pre-framed sets also. All the coins were whizzed and shine like a beacon. There is no government affiliation with the Kennedy Mint. It's a private company looking to turn a profit. Therefore the COA is nothing more than an attribution that they compiled the coins and put them in a framed display. As far as value is concerned. If you paid nothing for it, you're ahead of the game. You won't be realizing any numismatic premium for them. All those sets are is a display of what the coins looked like during the time period on them.
Possible. The sets were made from circulated issues so could of been cleaned and polished before mounting in the frame
Gotcha thanks. Coa says the cost at the time in 1986 was 140.00; do you think I could get that out of each set?
It has been very heavily polished. The toning you see formed there after the polishing from its days in the frame. The best thing to do with these sets is try to sell them as a unit. The parts are usually really messed up and not worth much over the bullion price, if there is silver in them. This 1921 Morgan Dollar is a bit beat up, but it will give you an idea as how the coin looks when it has not been polished. It was graded MS-61.
It would be a stretch, given that the coins are considered "damaged" as a result of being cleaned/polished. Silver value for each set is in that range or a little below. In 1986, the value of the coins in each one was less than $50, and you see what the sets sold for. If you can find someone who wants them as displays, you may well get their original price or more. But if you try to sell them to a dealer, you'll get considerably less.
Those were pretty popular sets at one time and yeah… The coins are almost certainly shined to death before they are interred in those frames. That being the case, I think I would leave them intact. I would find the polished coins more desirable in the displays myself.
Welcome to CoinTalk @Jason Kline I think you have received honest opinions above, and can't really add anything to them. If it were mine, I'd keep it for future generations to enjoy.
I see about $4 in face value of silver coins in the first, and about $5 in the second, so $9 total. A quick lookup suggests that silver sells for about 18x face right now, so that is about $160 total in silver value for both sets combined. That does not count the cents, nickels, or Ike dollars, which won't amount to much beyond face value.
A dollar worth of newly-struck silver dimes, quarters, or halves contains 0.723 ozt of silver. A Morgan dollar, Peace dollar, or pre-2019 commemorative silver dollar contains 0.7734 ozt of silver. So $1 worth of silver dollar coins is equivalent to $1.07 worth of smaller silver change. Beyond that, though, Peace dollars always trade at a premium to melt, and Morgan dollars trade at an even higher premium. Even if they're cleaned or otherwise cull, they're worth more than just silver value. When I'm coming up with a "minimum value" estimate for a silver lot, I count each low-grade Morgan or Peace as $1.25 "face value". I also count 40% Kennedy halves as 20 cents or a little less, and war nickels as around 5 cents -- two war nickels have one and a half times as much silver as a silver dime, but they trade at a big discount because they're heavy/bulky/ugly.
