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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Nords, post: 222365, member: 8769&quot;]Your expertise has been recommended by Rono (who has his own expert reputation over at FundAlarm).&nbsp; I&#039;m a newbie and a clueless heir.&nbsp; I&#039;m neither a coin collector nor a wannabe, but I&#039;d hate to see my stuff on Antiques Roadshow with a happy owner saying &quot;Yeah, I bought it from this clueless heir for $10...&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>It appears to be an 1889 Morgan silver dollar with years of tarnish on it.</p><p>The coin holder:&nbsp; <a href="http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a191/Nords_Nords/IMGP0598.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a191/Nords_Nords/IMGP0598.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a191/Nords_Nords/IMGP0598.jpg</a></p><p>The head:&nbsp; <a href="http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a191/Nords_Nords/IMGP0599.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a191/Nords_Nords/IMGP0599.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a191/Nords_Nords/IMGP0599.jpg</a></p><p>The eagle:&nbsp; <a href="http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a191/Nords_Nords/IMGP0605.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a191/Nords_Nords/IMGP0605.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a191/Nords_Nords/IMGP0605.jpg</a></p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s in a cardboard coin card that&#039;s intended to be given as a Christmas present.&nbsp; The penny is a 1970 so the coins have probably spent nearly four decades in this cardboard holder inside a plastic envelope.&nbsp; (When my grandfather died five years ago we put his possessions in a box and essentially forgot about them in the crush of other events.)&nbsp; I don&#039;t know if the tarnish is from skin oils or the plastic but I&#039;m not ready to clean it until it&#039;s been looked at by an expert.</p><p><br /></p><p>We don&#039;t know of any stories to the coin and we don&#039;t know its provenance, its history, or its treatment.&nbsp; It could have been treasured from the day it was minted or it could have been picked up out of some gutter.&nbsp; As far as I know my grandfather didn&#039;t collect coins (unless you count the Franklin Mint&#039;s &quot;Jamaica&quot; series), he didn&#039;t leave an estate, and neither my father nor I can ever remember seeing this before.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d appreciate your opinions on its care &amp; sale.&nbsp; If it&#039;s worth, well, a buck then I&#039;ll take care of it on eBay.&nbsp; But if it&#039;s worth more then I&#039;ll go the appraiser/auction route here on Oahu.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>My apologies if I&#039;ve inadvertently violated board protocol and I&#039;ll happily edit this post if deemed necessary to comply.&nbsp; Thanks![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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