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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bmwcaligali, post: 57484, member: 3467&quot;]Awwlw.....you are very sweet!&nbsp; I have actually appreciated very much the things Speedy has told me.&nbsp; His information seems genuine, and it is obvious to me that his heart is in the right place.&nbsp; So Speedy, to you I want to say thank you so much hun!&nbsp; Your information I have already written down and taken to heart because I can see that you are a tell it like it is kind of person and I truly truly respect that. </p><p><br /></p><p>As for the coins you had mentioned Speedy, I do actually have 1928S Peace Dollars.&nbsp; I have many 1922&#039;s and 23&#039;s....some which look brand new.</p><p><br /></p><p>About my parents coins:&nbsp; they not only found these coins in the ground in their backyard....these coins were buried inside of a cheese type of cloth and then stuck inside of a tin can with a lid on it.&nbsp; That is where the $20 double eagle came from.&nbsp; That is where many of the Peace and Morgan Dollars came from.&nbsp; Now, the others, that is the half dimes, the half cents, the large cents, the indian head cents, and so forth.....some of those were dug up directly from the dirt, and others were dug up having been buried inside of other objects, such as tin cans (very old cans mind you), and a wooden box, and to be honest with you, I wish I could remember more, but I was already married when they found these coins, so I wasn&#039;t around for much of the digging that they did.&nbsp; They also found lots of buried jewelry, gold jewelry, some with a tiny tiny diamond, some just a simple rose, or cross.&nbsp; My parents knew better than to clean any of their coins.&nbsp; They dug them up and pretty much only handled them long enough to slip them in individual coin holders and then they put them away for years to come.&nbsp; My parents were both older and both in ill health when they found these coins, and the only reason they found them at all was because they used to metal detect together before my mother&#039;s arthritis became crippling.&nbsp; My dad bought her a Garrett metal detector, a very lightweight one with all the bells and whistles and she merely went to try it out in the backyard when it registered silver.&nbsp; So she insisted on digging in that spot in the backyard where many of times over the past 40+ years they&#039;d lived there they grew their garden, etc.&nbsp; Pretty soon, my mother became a Mole.....I swear that woman was always outside digging.&nbsp; My father finally had to stop her when she was digging so far underneath this gigantic old shed that he was afraid it was going to fall on top of her.&nbsp; When she could no longer dig, my dad wouldn&#039;t let anyone else dig up &quot;her treasure&quot;, and even after my parents died, my sisters and I vowed not to dig that entire area up, even though we knew there were still more coins to be found there.&nbsp; We have since, sold the house, and the new owners have been made aware of it.&nbsp; They are so sweet, they told us that whatever comes from beneath that shed, if ever that shed is taken down, belongs to us.&nbsp; We couldn&#039;t have gotten luckier with the new owners.&nbsp; Bless their sweet hearts.&nbsp; Anyhow, what I&#039;m trying to say is that these coins have not been cleaned, but they weren&#039;t all touching the dirt...they were protected for all these years.&nbsp; I&#039;m sitting here looking at a 1923 Peace dollar that is as crystal clear and as shiny as a new quarter.&nbsp; No exaggeration.&nbsp; Now some of them obviously show some signs of dirty areas, but I consider myself to be pretty sharp and before I graded the coins, I made sure I looked at several sources online as well as in books.&nbsp; I graded these coins according to all of these sources combined.&nbsp; Meaning, the toughest criteria from all the sources combined is how I graded them.&nbsp; I was conservative in my grade.&nbsp; And I&#039;ll tell you one thing for sure.....My Peace dollars alone looked a hell of a lot better than the ones this guy had in his &quot;bucket&quot; he showed me.&nbsp; His were black and icky. Mine still have almost all of their mint luster.&nbsp; Without being cleaned!!!&nbsp; You can tell they weren&#039;t cleaned by looking at them.&nbsp; None of them are Mint.....they&#039;ve been touched and they came from the ground.&nbsp; This naturally can be seen.&nbsp; But they look mighty pretty as far as I&#039;m concerned.&nbsp; For being almost 100 years old.&nbsp; I hope I look that good at 100.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The 1927 Gold Coin is uncirculated.&nbsp; It too came from that cheesecloth, tin can in the ground&nbsp; My dad had it mounted in a money clip he was so proud of it, but HE NEVER USED THE MONEY CLIP.HE JUST PULLED IT OUT CAREFUL NOT TO TOUCH THE COIN AND SHOWED PEOPLE.&nbsp; This coin has nothing wrong with it&nbsp; No chips, no dings, no holes, no cracks, no smudges, no nothing&nbsp; It&#039;s beautiful.&nbsp; The man who mounted it for my father offered my dad $2500 for it and that was over 20 years ago.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Anyways, the oldest coin I have is 1804 half cent and then I have complete sets of indian head pennies dating from 1880 continually through 1908.&nbsp; I have more than one complete set&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The Morgan Dollars range from 1879 (s and unmarked(p) to 1891 (o, and unmarked), and then again from 1896 (o and unmarked) through 1902 (o&#039;s, s&#039;s, and unmarked ones) then 1921 (s, d, unmarked)&nbsp; I also have 4 coins that the PCGS did get to certify for my parents and those are 18840 (and they have a PL after that - - all of them have a PL actually.they are very very shiny and perfect looking in thick plastic case with PCGS on it and some other numbers), 1883CC, (2 of those) and 1885O&nbsp; This dealer was willing to give me $20 a piece for these.&nbsp; Now granted I know very little about coins, but I tend to think that these must be worth a hell of a lot more than 20 lousy bucks.&nbsp; I wouldn&#039;t have sold them to him anyways, but he must&#039;ve really thought I was stupid.&nbsp; I can&#039;t be sure, but from what I&#039;ve read, doesn&#039;t the PL mean Proof Like?&nbsp; I could be wrong about that, but in any case, all of the coins I have are still very unused looking.&nbsp; They aren&#039;t perfect, but they aren&#039;t G&#039;s either.&nbsp; Many of my indian head pennies are RED.&nbsp; Not painted red.&nbsp; The metal is red.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>If I can find a way to take some pics and post them here I will, but I just sold my laptop and am using a dinasaur right now that really bites. The keyboard amongst many other things sucks....so it&#039;s iffy that I can get a pic on this puter to post&nbsp; But if I can I will </p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks again for your help guys!!&nbsp; You rock!!![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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