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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 1639393, member: 27832&quot;]I came across this auction shortly before it was scheduled to end:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/LARGE-LOT-OF-SILVER-COINS-MORGANS-DIMES-HALFS-QUARTERS-ECT-NO-RESERVE-/321062628430" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/LARGE-LOT-OF-SILVER-COINS-MORGANS-DIMES-HALFS-QUARTERS-ECT-NO-RESERVE-/321062628430" rel="nofollow">LARGE LOT OF SILVER COINS, MORGANS, DIMES, HALFS,QUARTERS ECT.. NO RESERVE!!!!</a></p><p><br /></p><p>It was sitting just a bit above melt at the time -- $23.85 FV of 90%, plus six Morgans; melt for the small stuff was something like $536, and figure $30 each for the Morgan premium, so $716; it was sitting at $720. I decided to gamble, and won it at the next increment. It arrived today.</p><p><br /></p><p>The dimes were nice, nearly all Mercury, with lots of VF/XF -- nothing worth a premium, but better than the normal run of circulated stuff. Oddly, there was not a single 1942; so much for trying to nab an overdate. Not, as they say, &quot;unsearched&quot;. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Nothing special in the quarters, and the Morgans were mostly either dipped/cleaned 1921&#039;s or heavily circulated older stuff.</p><p><br /></p><p>It was the halves, though, that caught my attention -- specifically, this one black sheep in the unlit corners of the photos:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]235705.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]235704.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>If you squint really really hard at the obverse, it <i>almost</i> looks like it might be a 190... 1? And if you squint really really hard at the reverse, it <i>almost</i> looks like there&#039;s a mint-mark. Nothing to gamble big on, but I figured even if it was a harshly-cleaned common date with a splotch instead of a mintmark, that much detail ought to push it comfortably above melt. I asked the seller to make sure it was wrapped separately, just in case, and he obliged with a small zip-lock.</p><p><br /></p><p>Well, I&#039;ve got it in hand now. I still don&#039;t have good photos; I shot these with my phone, and the oblique light I had to use makes the thing look quite a bit worse than it actually does in-hand.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]235714.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]235711.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>These shots make it look abused, but in-hand, it&#039;s not that bad -- very darkly toned, and not much luster if any, but certainly not harshly cleaned. It&#039;s got a few hits -- that one on the obverse rim around 3:30, one between F and D on the reverse, and a few less noticeable ones -- but overall it looks to me like a solid VF30, maybe even 35. I&#039;ll try to get more realistic pictures in the next day or so.</p><p><br /></p><p>This was a bigger chunk than I&#039;ve been biting off lately, and I was a little miffed that silver started dropping soon after I made the purchase, but now I&#039;m pretty happy with the result. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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