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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 1022948, member: 57463&quot;]It depends on how you tally the coins.&nbsp; I counted $5.50 in 90% silver, but you have the 40% Kennedy and the Warnickel, not that they change the numbers much.&nbsp; With silver going up steadily -- now near $25/oz -- values change, also.&nbsp; Right now, say, $85 in silver.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>These coins are neither rare nor valuable nor in high grade.&nbsp; Likely, they have been cleaned and polished.&nbsp; In any case, they were not special in any way.&nbsp; They are worth far more in the boards as a collectible set from the Bicentennial Era.&nbsp; More and more of these are being destroyed as people pull the silver from them.&nbsp; That makes the remainders more valuable.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>If you want to sell this right now for fast cash, pull the coins, same as everyone else and get about $100 for them.&nbsp; (Mostly for the silver.&nbsp; The cents are irrelevant.)&nbsp; If you want to have something special in 20 years, do nothing.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Coin boards have become a new collectible. in their own right.&nbsp; So far, the hobby is still focused only on Waite Raymond, early Whitmans, and so on.&nbsp; (See <a href="http://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v11n50a06.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v11n50a06.html" rel="nofollow">here</a> and <a href="http://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v12n36a03.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v12n36a03.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>, for instance.)&nbsp; Note that these are for those classic boards, not for these &quot;instant collectibles of the Bicentennial era.&quot;&nbsp; Just wait... </p><p><br /></p><p>Back when he was president of Krause, ANA president Clifford Mishler had a stump speech about the future of the hobby.&nbsp; Specialization and differentiation are natural trends.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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