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<p>[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 4800600, member: 26302"]Btw OP, I would think the coins that were lost would have been all Morgans. I have had similar recollections by others. I had an uncle who swore he had a bunch of silver dollars from the early and mid 1800s. One day he dug them out and showed me and they were all Morgans from 1878 on. </p><p><br /></p><p>People have a way of misremembering. Non-collectors think that the older the coin is, the more valuable and important. Collectors know this is false, so do not attach much weight to the date. However, non-collectors see 1880 and think that is really old, then in their mind somehow make them older and older to make them more "important". </p><p><br /></p><p>In other words, I think the Morgans are a great idea, and its highly likely that unless he was a collector those are what were lost. Morgan's are 100/1000 times more common than the other older silver dollars.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 4800600, member: 26302"]Btw OP, I would think the coins that were lost would have been all Morgans. I have had similar recollections by others. I had an uncle who swore he had a bunch of silver dollars from the early and mid 1800s. One day he dug them out and showed me and they were all Morgans from 1878 on. People have a way of misremembering. Non-collectors think that the older the coin is, the more valuable and important. Collectors know this is false, so do not attach much weight to the date. However, non-collectors see 1880 and think that is really old, then in their mind somehow make them older and older to make them more "important". In other words, I think the Morgans are a great idea, and its highly likely that unless he was a collector those are what were lost. Morgan's are 100/1000 times more common than the other older silver dollars.[/QUOTE]
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