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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;MargaretA, post: 1469905, member: 38733&quot;]Hello all,</p><p>This is my first post here. I&#039;m not really a collector but recently found a lot of old coins in the basement of my parents&#039; house and am trying to decide what to do with them. I thought I&#039;d start with an inventory:</p><p>Mercury dime, 1939, 1</p><p>Mercury dime, 1942, 2</p><p>Mercury dime, 1943, 2</p><p>Mercury dime, 1944, 1</p><p>Roosevelt dime, 1946, 3</p><p>Roosevelt dime, 1947, 1</p><p>Roosevelt dime, 1948, 2</p><p>Roosevelt dime, 1949, 1</p><p>Roosevelt dime, 1951, 3</p><p>Roosevelt dime, 1952, 2</p><p>Roosevelt dime, 1953, 4</p><p>Roosevelt dime, 1954, 1</p><p>Roosevelt dime, 1958, 2</p><p>Roosevelt dime, 1959, 1</p><p>Roosevelt dime, 1960, 5</p><p>Roosevelt dime, 1961, 3</p><p>Roosevelt dime, 1962, 3</p><p>Roosevelt dime, 1963, 7</p><p>Roosevelt dime, 1964, 20</p><p>Washington quarter, 1939, 1</p><p>Washington quarter, 1944, 1</p><p>Washington quarter, 1946, 1</p><p>Washington quarter, 1963, 1</p><p>Washington quarter, 1964, 2</p><p>Walking Liberty half dollar, 1917, 1</p><p>Walking Liberty half dollar, 1918, 1</p><p>Walking Liberty half dollar, 1935, 1</p><p>Walking Liberty half dollar, 1936, 1</p><p>Walking Liberty half dollar, 1937, 2</p><p>Walking Liberty half dollar, 1938, 1</p><p>Walking Liberty half dollar, 1940, 1</p><p>Walking Liberty half dollar, 1941, 6</p><p>Walking Liberty half dollar, 1942, 7</p><p>Walking Liberty half dollar, 1943, 11</p><p>Walking Liberty half dollar, 1944, 1</p><p>Walking Liberty half dollar, 1945, 12</p><p>Walking Liberty half dollar, 1946, 5</p><p>Sesquicentennial half dollar, 1926, 1</p><p>Franklin half dollar, 1950, 2</p><p>Franklin half dollar, 1951, 3</p><p>Franklin half dollar, 1952, 7</p><p>Franklin half dollar, 1953, 4</p><p>Franklin half dollar, 1954, 5</p><p>Franklin half dollar, 1957, 3</p><p>Franklin half dollar, 1958, 3</p><p>Franklin half dollar, 1961, 7</p><p>Franklin half dollar, 1962, 9</p><p>Franklin half dollar, 1963, 15</p><p>Kennedy half dollar, 1964, 6</p><p>Kennedy half dollar, 1965, 3</p><p>Kennedy half dollar, 1966, 5</p><p>Kennedy half dollar, 1967, 1</p><p>Kennedy half dollar, 1968, 1</p><p>Kennedy half dollar, 1969, 1</p><p>Morgan dollar, 1886, 2</p><p>Morgan dollar, 1887, 1</p><p>Morgan dollar, 1889, 1</p><p>Morgan dollar, 1890, 1</p><p>Morgan dollar, 1896, 2</p><p>Morgan dollar, 1897, 2</p><p>Morgan dollar, 1899, 1</p><p>Morgan dollar, 1900, 4</p><p>Morgan dollar, 1902, 3</p><p>Morgan dollar, 1921, 12</p><p>Peace dollar, 1922, 1</p><p>Peace dollar, 1923, 1</p><p>Peace dollar, 1924, 4</p><p>Peace dollar, 1925, 3</p><p>Peace dollar, 1926, 1</p><p>Peace dollar, 1928, 1</p><p><br /></p><p>The number after the date is the quantity.</p><p><br /></p><p>I had to do some research just to figure out what some of these coins were since I&#039;d never seen anything like them before, but based on the pictures I found online I think my guesses are fairly accurate. I didn&#039;t make a note of the mint marks but I can say that most don&#039;t seem to have any, so I&#039;m guessing they&#039;re from Philadelphia, which doesn&#039;t surprise me since this house is in a suburb of Philadelphia. The only other mint marks I&#039;ve seen are from Denver, and there aren&#039;t many of those. I haven&#039;t seen any from San Francisco or anyplace else.</p><p><br /></p><p>This wasn&#039;t a formal collection, just coins in different labelled containers (like pill bottles) or in plastic bags, all in a tackle box. I think most of the coins were circulated, with the possible exception of some of the 1964 Kennedy halves which were still in little glassine (?) envelopes. However, some are still really shiny, even some of the older ones, which makes me wonder if they just weren&#039;t circulated much. My father&#039;s writing was on some of the containers and since the basement was his &quot;domain&quot; I think this was his collection, but he died more than 20 years ago so I can&#039;t ask him.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll be honest here. I&#039;m not really looking to become a collector; right now I&#039;m just looking for the best way to sell these coins. I know I could sell them for the silver but if they&#039;d be appreciated by a collector I would rather go that route. I just need some advice on the best way to go.</p><p><br /></p><p>This post is already really long so I&#039;ll stop now, but if you need any more information please ask and I&#039;ll do my best to answer. I do have a good camera with a macro lens setting so I can include some pictures, but with so many coins I&#039;m not sure which to take pictures of! Just let me know. And thanks in advance for your help.</p><p><br /></p><p>Meg</p><p><br /></p><p>P.S. I also have some wheat pennies and some nickels but I haven&#039;t inventoried them because I was concentrating on the silver coins. But I can do that if needed.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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