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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sholom, post: 768345, member: 17753&quot;]Hi all,</p><p><br /></p><p>Some of you may recall this story from the summer.&nbsp; I have a friend (call him &quot;A&quot;) in the following situation: His wife&#039;s brother (call the wife &quot;W&quot;, and his wife&#039;s brother &quot;B&quot;) was a small time collector who passed away about 10-15 years ago, &quot;B&quot; left to &quot;W&quot; his collection.&nbsp; About six years ago &quot;W&quot; passed away, and so my friend &quot;A&quot; has the collection.&nbsp; A has always wanted to cash it in the use the money for his kids.</p><p><br /></p><p>Luckily for me, he never got around to it . . . after talking to me, he agreed to let me handle it.&nbsp; Almost all of it is I guess what is called &quot;junk silver&quot; -- that is, mostly stuff in the G to VG range, mostly from 1900-1964 -- this includes Mercuries, Roosies, Washington .25, Walking Liberty, and Franklins.&nbsp; And a couple of Barbers.&nbsp; There are no keys or even semi-keys.&nbsp; I&#039;m going to purchase that whole lot from him at melt, and we&#039;re both happy.&nbsp; (This may seem boring to many of you . . . but as for me, since prior to this year I collected almost exclusively via pocket change, I&#039;ve never owned a Franklin or Walker before, or a Barber of anything, and this experience has ramped up my interest in coins to new areas).</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s where the story gets interesting even for you pros . . . he also has a decent (well, for me decent) Morgan and Peace collection.&nbsp; There was a thread a while back about the 1928-P Peace Dollar in there.&nbsp; &#039;nuff said on that.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, as for the Morgans . . . my first pass through them I saw three semi-minor keys: 1883-cc, 1884-cc, and 1890-cc.&nbsp; I have no experience at all at grading Morgans, but I would guess that the first and last were around G-6, and the 1884-cc at, perhaps VF/XF.&nbsp; (I&#039;ll post pix sometime)</p><p><br /></p><p>I also know nothing about VAM&#039;s.&nbsp; I guess I&#039;d better learn a lot before I evaluate the other Dollars.</p><p><br /></p><p>I also know next-to-nothing about slabbing.&nbsp; Not being a dealer or big-time collector, I presume my best option -- if I want to get them graded -- is to bring them to a dealer and have them submit it?&nbsp; (Please correct me if I&#039;m wrong).</p><p><br /></p><p>Assuming all this is somewhat correct -- at what point is getting them graded worth it?&nbsp; How much would it cost me, and how much would it benefit me?&nbsp; What&#039;s the difference in value for those coins raw-vs-graded?</p><p><br /></p><p>Thoughts?</p><p><br /></p><p>============</p><p>Full disclosure: my friend &quot;A&quot; is so happy that I found some worthwhile pieces, he told me that either I can purchase them from him at a deep discount, or I could sell them, and he&#039;d split the proceeds with me since I&#039;m doing all the work.&nbsp; His half of the money will go to his kids as a final present from their mother.&nbsp; My plan is to sell the above mentioned dollars, and use that to finance my purchase of everything else he has.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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