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<p>[QUOTE="Vess1, post: 2402809, member: 13650"]Hello Kathy. Welcome to collecting. </p><p><br /></p><p> In all honesty, how the coins were stored tells you a lot. There are varying degrees of coin collectors really. Many people collected "out of the norm" and silver coins and saved them in a box, all thrown together. The collection obviously will have some value but if things weren't already well organized, documented, with some things in plastic slabs with labels, its most likely not worth getting too worked up over. </p><p> The most common Morgans are worth about $15 to $20 a piece on up with rare varieties going into 5 or 6 figures depending on condition. If there was an 1893-S in the group, it would probably be in plastic, well labeled. If nothing is, you're probably looking at mostly common stuff. I highly recommend you buy a red book to figure out what you have. It's a helpful tool for beginners, that everyone here has used at one time or another. It will show you where the mint marks are and what the key dates to look for would be.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Vess1, post: 2402809, member: 13650"]Hello Kathy. Welcome to collecting. In all honesty, how the coins were stored tells you a lot. There are varying degrees of coin collectors really. Many people collected "out of the norm" and silver coins and saved them in a box, all thrown together. The collection obviously will have some value but if things weren't already well organized, documented, with some things in plastic slabs with labels, its most likely not worth getting too worked up over. The most common Morgans are worth about $15 to $20 a piece on up with rare varieties going into 5 or 6 figures depending on condition. If there was an 1893-S in the group, it would probably be in plastic, well labeled. If nothing is, you're probably looking at mostly common stuff. I highly recommend you buy a red book to figure out what you have. It's a helpful tool for beginners, that everyone here has used at one time or another. It will show you where the mint marks are and what the key dates to look for would be.[/QUOTE]
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