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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RittenhouseCU, post: 3308583, member: 100546&quot;]The Liberia &quot;coin&quot; is just a modern bullion piece and only worth the silver content.&nbsp; I&#039;d stay away from this stuff, they are not collectible coins, you&#039;ll just end up with over-priced silver.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The Walker was a bit over-priced.&nbsp; 1964 and earlier US minor silver (hal;f and down) contains about .72 oz per dollar face, dollars contain .77.&nbsp; So, when buying average circ silver, multiply the current silver price by the content.&nbsp; At today&#039;s spot of 15.65, your Walker contains about $5.63.&nbsp; Walkers do bring a bit of a premium but not that much.&nbsp; 7 bucks would have been a decent price.</p><p><br /></p><p>The silver cert is not uncommon and the fold makes it at best an AU, they go for 1.50 and up.&nbsp; I would not recommend purchasing less than UNC as they are just too common.&nbsp; And I wouldn&#039;t buy at all unless you intend to specialize in 20th cen, US paper.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Indian cent is pretty low grade.&nbsp; An OK price would have been $1 - 1.50.</p><p><br /></p><p>The $2 is worth face value.</p><p><br /></p><p>In sum, the dealer did not do you any favors, but you didn&#039;t get hurt too bad.&nbsp; You just paid full retail from a junk dealer.</p><p><br /></p><p>For the future, get a copy of The Guidebook of United States Coins (aka The Red Book).&nbsp; Amazon has &#039;em for $13 and change.&nbsp; Go thru it and find a series that&#039;s within your budget and really trips your trigger.&nbsp; The go up on the Heritage Auction archives <a href="https://coins.ha.com/heritage-auctions-hall-of-fame-best-prices-realized.s?ic=Tab-Resources-AuctionArchives-122214" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://coins.ha.com/heritage-auctions-hall-of-fame-best-prices-realized.s?ic=Tab-Resources-AuctionArchives-122214" rel="nofollow">https://coins.ha.com/heritage-auctions-hall-of-fame-best-prices-realized.s?ic=Tab-Resources-AuctionArchives-122214</a> and see what they sell for.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The prices are actual winning bid prices, not someone&#039;s idea of the going price.</p><p><br /></p><p>One very interesting area of collecting these days (at least I find it so) is Jefferson nickels.&nbsp; Nice design and you can find some spectacular coins in proof sets, unc sets, and roll searches.</p><p><br /></p><p>In that series, for your thirty bucks, you could buy the following:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]876594[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]876595[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d also suggest you join a local coin club, if there is one in your area.&nbsp; And attend whatever shows are within reasonable driving distance.&nbsp; You can get a list of coin shows from coinzip.com.</p><p><br /></p><p>Meet some experienced collectors and have them help you.&nbsp; A pretty girl will have no shortage of guys falling all over themselves to help you out.</p><p><br /></p><p>Good luck[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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