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Message:: [QUOTE="cladking, post: 2435134, member: 68"]Old coins often have value in even poor grades. Modern coins sometimes have a lot of value in low grades but not typically.  Moderns were poorly made and few were saved so they are mostly valuable only in high grades. Among your coins the most likely valuable coin would be a '69-S DDO which might bring up to about $5000. If you're in Michigan your chances aren't all that remote. The second most likely is the '70-S DDO.  Like the '69 you can spot these by looking for doubling on the obverse letters. There could be a '70-S small date.  It's only worth about $25 but it's worth checking.  Look at the inside loop of the "9".  If it points down toward the mint mark it has no special value probably (there is an S/ S), but if it points up toward the "7" then it's the small date. It's probably not worth the effort to have them checked out professionally but there are other possibilities as well.  I'd just spend them.  Even better would be to start a collection and get in on the ground floor.  Almost nobody has such collections now days and they're a lot of fun.  Forget buying the books like the Redbook because they're all wrong with moderns.  Just buy a cheap folder or an album and start trying to fill it with the best coin you can find.[/QUOTE]