Tidy House Products promotional coin giveaways

Here is a scan of a 5.25" x 2.75" packet from Tidy House Products Co, an Omaha Nebraska manufacturer of household cleaning products that was acquired by Pillsbury in 1960. Evidently, Tidy House did this often, offering silver dollars and half dollar pairs as sales promotional items they gave away.

I don't think these 1964 & 1964-D Kennedy halves have ever been removed from the cardboard, but they have been toned and worn a little anyway. Interesting setting at any rate.

Does anyone else have some of the different sets from this company?

 

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Very nice and a nice piece of history.

 

I have a Morgan in a Tidy House card board holder. It has insane toning.

 

Great additions to anyones collection say I LOL I wonder what chemicals there are in those holders ?

 

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Interestingly enough, the company was started by a gentleman in his basement. And that basement is in the house across the street from me.

Now I'll have to keep my eye out for these...

 

Cool,

That's one of those things that you KNOW the packaging is bad for the coin but leave it in anyway.

Thanks for sharing.

clembo

 

I have several that are a gift from my Grandfather.

One in particular toned very nicely - I sent it to NGC a couple of years ago, and they body-bagged it for "questionable toning."

Very nice coins - I would recommend leaving them in the holder.

Dan

 

Looks almost identical in toning as mine does, cobalt blue to a goldish color like the pipes on my Harley. Mine's a 1881 and none of the Morgans that I've ever seen have a mint mark on them.

 

Here's one that is often referred to as Tid-E-Bowl toning.......

Chris

 

More tidy house photos

I have both the half dollar and silver dollar tidy house cards. The morgan dollar is a new orleans mint and a nice coin. Does anyone have an idea about what these are worth, not considering the value of the morgan dollar, since they can be changed anyway.
Thanks,
mico

 

The Morgans are about $15 to $30 uncirculated don't know if they're worth any more as a collectors item though. http://coins.ha.com/ref/beginners-price-guide.zx?denomination=Dollar%20#List

The Kennedy's are about $1.50 to $2.00 http://coins.ha.com/ref/beginners-price-guide.zx?denomination=Half Dollar #List

 

They are still cool and so is your name sake Felonius

 

Those prices are a bit outdated due to the rise in silver.

 

They toned becuase cardboard or any type of paper for that matter is infused with sulfer due to the process of making paper by breaking down wood pulp with sulfuric acid....hence the reason silver coins placed in these holders are almost always toned. The good news is a they do sell for a premium...Morgans can even bring $40 to $70 dollars if the toning is real colorful....and I have sold frankies in these holders for as much as $70 a piece but the one's in this thread would probably be in the $15 to $20 range. These command the most premiums when found as a few with the original envelopes and order forms etc. Here is a very original and very colorful set I sold on Ebay this year...

























and here is a Morgan I sold...











One other thing to note is that it is not uncommon for some of these coins to come back in body bags as the TPGs don't know the storage conditions when grading the coins and I have seen plenty of the Morgans with blue and purple toning that looks complete AT even though most including myself would consider these coins NT.

 

Thanks Duke. There's also a band out of MO. that goes by Felonious Monk, check them out on Facebook!

 

Actually the SPOT price as of mid day on the NSE was $18.25 making the intrinsic (silver content) value of the Morgans $18.25+/- and the same for BOTH of the 1/2 dollars combined. The prices I quoted on the Morgans was based on an average uncirculated condition not a mint condition coin. Ltrain is right about the Kennedys being worth more INTRINSICALLY but I'm sure that MICO was asking about the collectors value which unfortunately does NOT fluctuate with the rise or fall in SPOT prices of the silver content. The way that they came up with the different monetary values of the coins was that a quarter was 1/4 ounce of silver, 1/2 dollars were 1/2 ounce etc... Can you imagine that in the late 1800's to early 1900's that gold was $20/ounce!? The $20 double eagle contains 90% fine gold, with a net weight of .9675 ounces (nearly an ounce) of pure gold!

 

Tidy House Kennedy halfs

The Tidy House Kennedys that were in my grandma's coins have black fingerprint ridges showing on them. Is that usual or was that from someone touching the coins afterward?

 

Suzyq welcome to coin talk

Most likely yes, as they most likely were mishandled
afterwards. Once the prints are there they will always be there.

 

Toning

Thanks-
The toning on the Morgan is blue with a little orange. I kind of like it.