Silver coin set, gold coin, and presidential coin set inherited and looking for info I have picked up some coins from my grandfathers house that passed away a few years back and recently putting house up for sale so cleaning the house out and found a few coins. I found a complete silver coin set and a presidential coin set. The silver caught my eye and have seen quite a bit of varing info and prices on the silver half dollar. It is year 1921 which I cannot find a mint mark near open wings of bird. I will include a picture of silver dollar seperately as well. Another coin I have found appears to be a gold coin but cannot find history of coin. It is a Kings Mountain military coin or as it says diorama and has checked and coin isn't brass based on smell and weight of coin. any info would be helpful and possibly interested in selling any or all. Thanks Alex
The silver dollar is a 1921 Morgan Dollar. The mint mark would be located on the reverse below the bow on the wreath. In this case, the coin has no mint mark and is thus from Philadelphia. The 1921 philly Morgan is the most common coin in the series and in that condition is worth melt value. Melt value is currently: $22.57. Based on the condition of all the silver coins, they are all well circulated and are worth their respective melt values. You can find the values here: http://www.coinflation.com/silver_coin_values.html The Kings Mountain military coin is not a coin but a token of some kind. I am not familiar with it and thus have no clue what the value is. It appears to be brass in the photo, but again that is only a guess.
Is it just me or is the 21 Morgan looks like it was mounted in jewelry at one point? It has the tarnish areas where the mounts would latch on to. Or maybe the lighting is deceiving?
I am very sure that the toned areas on the Morgan is from old staples through a cardboard/mylar 2x2. Over a couple of decades of environmental reaction. I have several like that, 4 staples at 90 degrees from each other. Jim
