That cabinet-and-tray arrangement is the way they stored valuable coins from the 1880s through the 1920s, give or take, until the first Wayte...
Went back and looked at your photos again; you have a few 40% silvers in there, and they are worth considerably less.
Today at www.coinflation.com, each half contains $5.88 worth of silver. Today, Apmex sells $100 face value in 90% Kennedy halves, mixed...
In the big Albert Pick world paper money catalog, it is Germany #73, ranging from 50 cents in VG to $30 in uncirculated, 1996 edition.
Here's another shocker for you -- a silver dollar contains about 7% more silver than two half dollars or four quarters or ten dimes. That...
You guys that are shaky on silver values, www.coinflation.com is your friend. And the articles are excellent, too. By the way, some people think...
Yes, that is a much better list than mine, and all answers are 100% essential. If the show chairman and his helpers are too "busy" to send such a...
I was about 12 years old, in the company of two faithful and expert mentors in the Clearwater Coin Club, whose names I will publish in the hopes...
Crude fake from a souvenir shop, 1950s or 1960s probably.
If anyone added the "S," which I sincerely doubt, they made the hardest +$2 of their life, and that's $2 at most. That said, many years ago at a...
Also, OP does not appreciate how many jobs have been cut at the local level, AND that we have some of the cheapest letter postage in the world....
Maybe more correct to say heavy and mis-shapen, rather than huge, but an interesting variety in any case.
First of all, I would not contact them by phone or email. Write a letter that they can hold in their hand, that answers all kinds of questions,...
Redbook shows large and small mint mark varieties of the 1928-S quarter, but does not price them separately. Mint mark on your coin looks huge.
If it's only got a tiny tear and a pinhole, it's WAAAAAAAAAAY above the average Confederate rag. It's a common type (pending a scarce Series) and...
No one can track values without knowing the letters at the beginning and end of each serial number...
Looks fine to me, Criswell Type T-68. Even clicking on a larger image, I can't make out the letter/number in front of the word Series, certain...
Best strategy is to make her an accomplice. Find a YouTube craft-video that shows how to make cufflinks out of dateless Buffalo Nickels...
Just as a question, who buys picked-over low-end Buffalos now? Who buys the rolls offered in dealers' ads?
I guess the key is whether you intend to re-sell everything or put items into your collection(s). You have $3.25 in silver, I'd spend the SBA's...
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