Picked this Dansco 7070 with 15 silver coins today for $85. Melt value on the silver about $70; Dansco album cover a little worn but all the pages in great shape and all the slides intact. I would pay $15 for the album itself. A couple of interesting coins as well. The modern halves are pretty toast; the walker is pretty good. I will take individual coin shots. Starting with the 1873 S with arrows liberty seated quarter, which in AG 3 has a $85 guide value. Has a couple of old scratches maybe graffiti edit but maybe not.
At our local swap meet. I have gotten stuff from him before, he has a lot of mineral pieces. The Tucson Gem and Mineral Show ended 2 or 3 weeks ago so lots of gems and minerals still around.
With those coins plus the album, definitely a good buy...! Is it just me or the lighting, not sure, but looks like some/many of the clear plastic sliders are missing...?
Did some additional calculations. 24 coins. 15 silvers. $66.46 melt at $25.73 per ounce. Plus $1.65 face for the non-silver = $67.11 total. That would mean I paid $17.89 for the Dansco and melt/face for the coins. Book value is calculated at $330.32 for just the coins. If Market on the Dansco is $70 as mentioned above then around $400 retail. 50 percent of that would be around $200 for everything. A few of the coins have old scratches and not sure how that would affect value. The 1877 seated dime is a CC! Has a couple of scratches which could be graffiti as they look like an A; but still a CC for melt ain't bad. Will take pictures shortly.
1877 CC Dime. Pretty rough shape looking at the close ups but still having a blast researching the dates and MM. Red book says 7.7 million minted, but value is double the 77 S with more than 3x the number of coins minted.
Liberty Seated Variety 3 - arrows at date 1853. Also a little rough but seems to be original and not messed with.
Thought I had a chance for a decent V nickel but the scratches on the obverse would detail. If not those then maybe the rim notch is PMD? I am not seeing obviously metal movement though.
Finally got around to photographing the other 3 quarters. First the Washington. Probably not the DDO and only worth melt.
Next is the last year of issue for the SLQ 1930 S. Nothing special but at least no deep scratches. Maybe a $9 coin? Greysheet F12?
This 1908 D Barber Quarter has some deep scratches on the reverse. I deep one on the obverse as well. Likely taking it down from a $10 coin to melt...
Additional photos of the Liberty Seated quarter 1873 S with arrows. Greysheet G4 would be $75, this is probably AG3 but I don't know this series.