When I took over my fathers collection in 94' I noticed that he had quite a few 1921 morgans and a few 1922 peace dollars. What is so special about these 2 years? Why would he have several of these? Just curious, new to this!
Both of those years had large mintages of silver dollars to replace coins that were melted. Both of these years were always amongst the cheapest years to buy because they were so common. Basically they are among the most common silver dollars to own, that is why most people have them. EDIT: Btw welcome to CT. I actually went to basic training in Fort Lost in the Woods.
Do you mind me asking what year? For the basic training. He also had numerous 1972 silver dollars, any meaning for those as well. btw thanks for answering the questions on the silver dollars.
1989 for Basic Training. I know, I am old. 1972 seems to be a common year on halves. Check the reverses and see if they are missing the FG initials of the designer. It is halfway common with that date, but the initials have to be completely gone for them to be worth something. Chris Edit: Sorry, thougth I read the 1972's were halves, my mistake.
1972 Silver Dollars were Eisenhower Dollars with 40% silver intended only for collectors. No significance to these coins.
Yep, the 1921 Morgan & 1922 Peace dollars were very plentiful and very inexpensive for 90% silver. There was nothing particularly special about the Ike dollars. They weren't even silver, but they were the last of the large dollar coins. Chris
You're old? Yeah, right! I was at Lost in the Woods for a secondary MOS 20 years before you. Chris (too!)
Engineering? Just a guess. I saw those guys digging holes in the morning and filling them at night when I was there. Lol.
Boy has it grown we now have the Chemical School, MP School and the Engineer schools of course, it has grown by leaps and bounds over the last 10 years. Cpm9ball I assume when you were here Waynesville was the hoppin town, now it's St. Robert. We have what we call the new St. Robert now across the interstate. There are 14 new motels. Even a cracker Barrel! Place is totallly different than when I moved here in 74. I figured someone had to have gone to basic here. For those of you aren't familiar with FLW all it was, was two towns full of beer joints and ***** houses. Hope it's ok to say that. Sorry if I offend anyone.
I lived off-post in St. Robert, and when I was there, tick-infested trailers outnumbered real homes. Chris
