Okay guys getting to some of the bigger coins anyone care to estimate

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Not graded but I’m sure you guys will let me know rather or not if I should

 

Obverse looks cleaned.

 

Agreed. It's hard to be sure from a single pair of shots, but even if it isn't cleaned, it's a common date in high AU or low MS. Certainly worth keeping, but probably not worth submitting.

 

Lacks luster.

 

Like the most of my collection it has been locked away for 50-60 years I have not cleaned any of them. Thanks

 

It has a Die Clash. Could be a VAM. That might help bring up the value a little.

 

AU55

 

I like the coin. But it's not worth sending in to be graded.

 

...anyone care to estimate

Estimate what?

 

A single die clash without letter transfer does not make a VAM. ALL Morgan and Peace dollars are VAM's. It is the study of Die pairs or marriages and the life stage of the dies. Clashes, die cracks, mintmark and date position etc all help toward attributing the correct VAM number to a coin. A VAM number does not mean extra value unless other contributing factors are present.

 

We didn't mean you cleaned it, it was cleaned by someone else sometime in the past.

 

People have been cleaning coins longer than that. In fact, collectors in general were more inclined to clean coins back in the old days.

 

Okay np think I’m gonna use my typical poor judgment and go have my coins looked at professionally and then get back to this page

 

About 500 silver quarters and 1000 silver dimes also not in pic

 

zip up for christ's sake

 

Very cool. I don’t know the background but it appears you have been the recipient of a silver bugs collection. Very much up my alley….. As far as individual cherry picks, keep in mind that many millions of common date coins were struck and from what I can tell, that’s what I am mostly seeing here. You would do yourself a favor picking up a Redbook and getting familiar with a site called Coinflation.com. Lots of very cool and historic silver there. Enjoy the hunt!

 

Yeah, I imagine cyanide solution became too hard to find for most 'cleaners'

jim

 

Lmao I totally didn’t see that

 

The wife’s grandfather owned a store in the 50s everything silver went into a box.