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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Nate4s, post: 1679725, member: 17773&quot;]This is extremely helpful. </p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks for all of the help everyone else. It is extremely fun...but also frightening because I have no idea what I&#039;m actually looking for in terms of dates or rarity and have the potential to miss some really great coins (that someone else will buy to melt, potentially). It&#039;s crazy, the guy running the place said not many folks buy the actual currency, but prefer the silver eagles. </p><p><br /></p><p>To address some of the other concerns. If I had around $20,000 just sitting around (which, unfortunately, I do not...I make that much in a year as a graduate student), I would buy ALL of the coins in an instant and take my sweet time checking each and every one out. </p><p><br /></p><p>I totally understand about making sure to &quot;reward&quot; them for being so generous and letting me pick through their coins. The first time I went in there, I bought $180 worth of &quot;silver&quot;...F-XF walking liberty halves (1927, 1940s), Poor - Good Barber Halves (189x - 1912), some nice looking franklin halves of various years (none of the seemingly rarer years though), and one of the only Peace Dollars (1935) I could find that was not heavily cleaned...it&#039;s not cleaned at all! I would suppose there are some rarer years of Morgans and Peace dollars, but they would all have to be sold as cleaned/cull coins. I also picked up 3 of what seem to be Eisenhower proofs (for around $10 ea). </p><p><br /></p><p>I think my next goal will be to save up some more coin-buyin&#039; money (around $150 or so) and just look at quarters next. I saw some standing liberty quarters in there, but got so overwhelmed with the sheer number of things I wanted, but could not afford. I wish I could just arrange a field trip and have you all come along with me. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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