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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Wandering Man, post: 3751337, member: 107037&quot;]I have a batch of coins collected over decades from a friend&#039;s father and husband, and I&#039;m trying to figure out how to help her with the coins.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>None of the coins have been protected and almost all of them have been in circulation.&nbsp; I&#039;ve got a couple that were uncirculated, but most are VG-8 and below, as far as I can tell.&nbsp; Some appear to be VF-20 and higher, but not a lot.</p><p><br /></p><p>When I look in the Red Book, the Blue Book, Numista.com, and EBay, I see coins with the low ratings going for something over melt value.&nbsp; Not much, but a little.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have now talked to two individual collectors and one coin shop owner and have been told that most is not worth much more than face value.&nbsp; The coin shop owner suggested that he was going to send some of the silver dollars out to be melted down because they were not AU-50 or higher.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, what&#039;s the scoop?&nbsp; How come in some places even the lowest grade coins are assigned a value, and in other places I should just melt them down or spend them?</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m talking about Morgans, Peace dollars, Walking Liberty and Franklin Half Dollars, V nickels, War nickles, Indian head nickels, etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>Do I go ahead and categorize the rest of her coins, or just take them in buckets to the bank? [ATTACH=full]1005903[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1005904[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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