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Message:: [QUOTE="Chip Kirkpatrick, post: 8376954, member: 101265"]I recently had lunch with John, a former coworker and good friend. Somehow our conversation shifted to coins and I learned John has a collection. John is in his late 70s and this was originally his father’s collection and John has added to it most of his life. Now when I say collection, it is mainly circulated coins dumped together. Nothing is slabbed although there are some proof sets. John knows nothing about coins. I barely know more but he asked me to look through them and see if anything has any true value. I was shocked when he brought out 2 big heavy duty canvass bags. Both weigh about 50 pounds each. I haven’t dumped them out but just started grabbing the bags of coins inside starting with the ones on top. Initially the coins were clad with everything from pennies to clad dollars. I quickly ran through them. Nothing. Then I started hitting the good stuff. I’ve been through bags of silver dimes and quarters. I Googled what were the most valuable Mercury, Roosevelt dimes and Washington quarters. I have been pulling out any coins with the identified dates and mintmarks but I realize I am using somebody else’s list  and may be ignoring coins that should be put to the side. So I’m asking, what silver coins would you suggest keeping? These re circulated coins! Some are well worn but there’s a lot of decent presentable coinage, so what dates and mint marks would you hold on to?[/QUOTE]