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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;clembo, post: 510639, member: 8033&quot;]I got to thinking about this today at work. Are there more cleaned or original silver dollars floatng around out there?</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s what brought it on. The boss has a rather big dealer coming in Saturday to buy some Morgans and Peace dollars in bulk. My boss can be kind of vague when assigning a job and never having met this dealer I&#039;m not too sure how picky he is. I&#039;m assuming not REAL picky as he is buying large quantities and will turn them fast.</p><p><br /></p><p>Any way I was sorting a pile of 1921 Morgans, pre 21 Morgans and decent Peace Dollars. Better stuff and culls I&#039;m kicking aside in separate piles. I&#039;m pulling these out of a box that we toss them into after purchasing from walk ins for the most part.</p><p><br /></p><p>I went through at least 1000 today so I&#039;m doing this pretty fast as I&#039;m waiting on customers up front (sorting in the back) to get these ready.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now I am not a professinal grader but even perusing quickly I can spot a lot of cleaned coins. My observations?</p><p><br /></p><p>LOTS of cleaned 1921 Morgans. Not really a surprise as we do buy &quot;collections&quot; and often times it will include a &quot;rare Morgan Silver Dollar&quot; from some magazine or TV ad. These are bought cheap by the sellers, buffed up and put in snappy display case.</p><p><br /></p><p>Pre 1921 Morgans not as bad but still plenty that have taken a cleaning and oft times a harsh one. Same principle here. Many came from sets I would bet and sold to the uninformed at highly inflated prices.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Peace Dollars really surprised me though honestly. SO many were cleaned. Now one has to realize when we buy these we pay X amount of dollar per coin. If it&#039;s better we put them aside immediately and the rest go into the box with just a glance.</p><p>I would have to say OVER half of the Peace dollars had been cleaned. That kind of surprised me actually.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now I don&#039;t really collect either of the series&#039; but if I did and was buying circulated I&#039;d take the nice &quot;dirty looking ones&quot;. </p><p><br /></p><p>Just wanted to share that experience. Thoughts and opinions are welcome.</p><p><br /></p><p>clembo[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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