As mentioned last week in the 1878 CC thread, I've decided to build a Morgan date album. About 30 years ago I inherited a bunch of coins from my paternal grandparents. Most of them were fairly seriously circulated common date items. Needless to say, being inherited I enjoy having them, but given their condition I haven't really bothered much about them. A good chunk I sold and plowed the money into coins that floated my boat. Another chunk I tossed in brown paper bags, threw them in the drawer and forgot about them for 20 - 25 years. About 5 to 10 years ago I decided to inventory them, and, lo and behold, a variety of the dollars had toned up. Interestingly enough, none of the half dollars toned up. So, none of these are particularly sexy, but it's fun to have inherited coins in an album. The coins are imaged by Bob Campbell, and I think he did an excellent job.
Some of my favorite coins were inherited when my grandmother passed a few years back. She had a small leather purse with several common Mercs, Walkers, war cents and the like.... My favorite though was two brand new Kennedy halves. She must have went to the bank when they were released. She came home and carefully wrapped them in wax paper and put them in that little leather purse. I can totally envision my grandmother doing that when I take her little coin purse out of the safe.
Your story is very similar to mine in regards to Morgan dollars - inherited from Grandma. I inherited a dozen or so, but quickly traded them in for nicer ones and then completed a Morgan subset: a) a year set (at least one coin from each year minted), b) a mint set (at least 1 coin from each mint) and c) all of the New Orleans minted Morgan’s. 30 coins total. · 1878-CC · 1879-O thru 1904-O · 1921-P, D, S In addition I have an 1883-CC GSA in original government packaging with COA. I also have a 2nd 1884-O that I keep in my Type Set. Let's see the rest of your set!
I like 'em. After my dad died we found an ancient cardboard folder in his bank box with some Morgans in it, no doubt from the Treasury releases. Some had very thick toning.
