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<p>[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 3279533, member: 27832"]The Morgans are a complicated series. Lots of "keys", lots of conditional rarities, lots of varieties.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you're trying to do date and mint mark, you'll need pretty deep pockets, even if you're willing to accept low-grade or problem coins. If you're just doing a date set, I think 1893 and 1895 are the only years that are expensive no matter the condition and mint mark.</p><p><br /></p><p>Oh, and as everybody else said, buy a Red Book. It costs less than a single cull Morgan. Until you do, though, you can also look up <a href="http://www.numismedia.com/fmv/prices/mordlr/pricesgd.shtml" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.numismedia.com/fmv/prices/mordlr/pricesgd.shtml" rel="nofollow">prices on Numismedia</a>; most of the prices there are unrealistically high, but they'll give you a sense of relative pricing.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 3279533, member: 27832"]The Morgans are a complicated series. Lots of "keys", lots of conditional rarities, lots of varieties. If you're trying to do date and mint mark, you'll need pretty deep pockets, even if you're willing to accept low-grade or problem coins. If you're just doing a date set, I think 1893 and 1895 are the only years that are expensive no matter the condition and mint mark. Oh, and as everybody else said, buy a Red Book. It costs less than a single cull Morgan. Until you do, though, you can also look up [URL='http://www.numismedia.com/fmv/prices/mordlr/pricesgd.shtml']prices on Numismedia[/URL]; most of the prices there are unrealistically high, but they'll give you a sense of relative pricing.[/QUOTE]
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