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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jloring, post: 1270709, member: 15518&quot;]Almost <i>all</i> 20th century sets that were (and are) being sold through newspaper and magazine ads contain low grade silver coins that were harshly cleaned in order to make them &quot;shine&quot;... a marketing ploy for the numismatically uneducated. This misleading tactic would lure people into paying considerably more for the set (displayed in frame of some sort) than the coins were worth. So, dispite the fact that your coins aren&#039;t &quot;whizzed&quot;, they carry little if any numistmatic value and are worth basically &quot;melt&quot;. Here&#039;s a typical example being offered on eBay:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/US-20th-CENTURY-TYPE-COINS-SET-SILVER-B4934-/390328864557?pt=Coins_US_Individual&amp;hash=item5ae169cf2d" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/US-20th-CENTURY-TYPE-COINS-SET-SILVER-B4934-/390328864557?pt=Coins_US_Individual&amp;hash=item5ae169cf2d" rel="nofollow">http://www.ebay.com/itm/US-20th-CENTURY-TYPE-COINS-SET-SILVER-B4934-/390328864557?pt=Coins_US_Individual&amp;hash=item5ae169cf2d</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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