So my dad handed me a bag of coins

[justj2k78]

My dad knew I've been looking into Copper and Silver lately, and gave me a bag of coins he's had for a bazillion years. Tons of random coins, including the following silver:

1906 Morgan, 1884 Morgan, 1876 Seated Liberty Half Dollar and 8 War Nickels

For someone just starting out, that's a score!

[aloneibreak]

heck thats a score for any of us !

[Rodebaugh]

My dad knew I've been looking into Copper and Silver lately, and gave me a bag of coins he's had for a bazillion years. Tons of random coins, including the following silver:

1906 Morgan, 1884 Morgan, 1876 Seated Liberty Half Dollar and 8 War Nickels

For someone just starting out, that's a score!

If its authentic....do you want to make 10 grand?

I'll pay the PCGS sub fees

Just picking nice score......any mintmarks on your morgans?

[justj2k78]

My dad knew I've been looking into Copper and Silver lately, and gave me a bag of coins he's had for a bazillion years. Tons of random coins, including the following silver:

1906 Morgan, 1884 Morgan, 1876 Seated Liberty Half Dollar and 8 War Nickels

For someone just starting out, that's a score!

If its authentic....do you want to make 10 grand?

I'll pay the PCGS sub fees

Just picking nice score......any mintmarks on your morgans?

Hey man, since you're the one who was nice enough to tell me, I'll let you have it for $5000!

[Rodebaugh]

Thanks for being a good sport. Seriously though check the mint marks.

An 1884-s is a great coin in any grade. It once had a fair premium in the g and vg range before spot silver went silly.

It still retains a nice premium in higher grades.

[Thogey]

Nothing will make your day like a 1906 morgan.

Does it stick to a magnet?

[jtlee321]

It was a typo. He meant to say it was a 1964 Peace Dollar. And I have made a deal to buy it at spot. He shipped it already.

[justj2k78]

Thanks for being a good sport. Seriously though check the mint marks.

An 1884-s is a great coin in any grade. It once had a fair premium in the g and vg range before spot silver went silly.

It still retains a nice premium in higher grades.

There was an s mintmark, but I sanded it off, because I was told that's how you like your Morgan's! If this is not true, I will give you the option of either I draw the s back on with my daughter's crayon, or drop the price to $4000, but you'd have to pay now!

No Mintmarks for me, just a couple nice chunks of silver!

[Mossy]

That would be a fun thing to do with one of those cheap, cast fakes, scratch up where the mint mark used to be and claim it was an "S".

[97guns]

just last month my dad kicked down a bank roll of '64 kennedy's and his 18K jade ring. he said theres a piggy bank in the closet thats for me with nothing but 90% and some gold pieces.

[Sheikh_yer_Bu'Tay]

My dad knew I've been looking into Copper and Silver lately, and gave me a bag of coins he's had for a bazillion years. Tons of random coins, including the following silver:

1906 Morgan, 1884 Morgan, 1876 Seated Liberty Half Dollar and 8 War Nickels

For someone just starting out, that's a score!

Your Dad is a helluva guy!! Be real nice to him on Fathers' Day.

[justj2k78]

My dad knew I've been looking into Copper and Silver lately, and gave me a bag of coins he's had for a bazillion years. Tons of random coins, including the following silver:

1906 Morgan, 1884 Morgan, 1876 Seated Liberty Half Dollar and 8 War Nickels

For someone just starting out, that's a score!

Your Dad is a helluva guy!! Be real nice to him on Fathers' Day.

All sorts of fun and old stuff, a penny from 1845 - believe it's called a Braided Liberty (really good shape), 15 Indian Heads (oldest 1960), maybe 20 Buffalo Nickels, 3 Liberty Nickels (I think that's what they were called), an 1866 US 2 cent piece, some 1970's JFKs and Eisenhowers (not silver), some 3 pence and 6 pence pieces, a few old larger Canadian pennies, and probably about 300 wheat pennies, mostly from the teens and '20s (My dad said that they were saved from his parent's penny candy section in their "General Store"). I like the silver, because well, it's silver, but the rest is just really cool from a historical perspective. An 1845 Penny? It would have been old enough to pick up arms in the Civil War! If only they could talk...

[Sheikh_yer_Bu'Tay]

My dad knew I've been looking into Copper and Silver lately, and gave me a bag of coins he's had for a bazillion years. Tons of random coins, including the following silver:

1906 Morgan, 1884 Morgan, 1876 Seated Liberty Half Dollar and 8 War Nickels

For someone just starting out, that's a score!

Your Dad is a helluva guy!! Be real nice to him on Fathers' Day.

All sorts of fun and old stuff, a penny from 1845 - believe it's called a Braided Liberty (really good shape), 15 Indian Heads (oldest 1960), maybe 20 Buffalo Nickels, 3 Liberty Nickels (I think that's what they were called), an 1866 US 2 cent piece, some 1970's JFKs and Eisenhowers (not silver), some 3 pence and 6 pence pieces, a few old larger Canadian pennies, and probably about 300 wheat pennies, mostly from the teens and '20s (My dad said that they were saved from his parent's penny candy section in their "General Store"). I like the silver, because well, it's silver, but the rest is just really cool from a historical perspective. An 1845 Penny? It would have been old enough to pick up arms in the Civil War! If only they could talk...

I agree! If only those old coins could talk. This is the part I like best about coin collecting- the history involved. What did that 1845 penny see? Did it travel the Oregon Trail? See old Santa Fe? Did it pass thru the hands of someone like Lincoln?

If you can ever get your hands on a 1796 dime, hold it tight. It was made from the melted-down silverware of Geo. Washington and other Founding Fathers. They donated the silver so our nation could have coins. Some of them actually melted the silver and ran the machine themselves on the first coin run!

The 1787 Fugio copper cent has a great history, too. The copper used came from military scrap. Some of the copper was from the metal bands of gun powder kegs donated to us by France. If you hold a Fugio, you may be holding the very same copper that passed thru the hands of a Revolutionary Soldier fighting for our Liberty.

[PreservingThePast]

I agree! If only those old coins could talk. This is the part I like best about coin collecting- the history involved. What did that 1845 penny see? Did it travel the Oregon Trail? See old Santa Fe? Did it pass thru the hands of someone like Lincoln?

If you can ever get your hands on a 1796 dime, hold it tight. It was made from the melted-down silverware of Geo. Washington and other Founding Fathers. They donated the silver so our nation could have coins. Some of them actually melted the silver and ran the machine themselves on the first coin run!

The 1787 Fugio copper cent has a great history, too. The copper used came from military scrap. Some of the copper was from the metal bands of gun powder kegs donated to us by France. If you hold a Fugio, you may be holding the very same copper that passed thru the hands of a Revolutionary Soldier fighting for our Liberty.

Thanks for the cool history lesson!!!

Enjoy your coins, everyone.

Edited, I hope, because my eyes and hands wouldn't coordinate to get the right quote.

[Rodebaugh]

Thanks for being a good sport. Seriously though check the mint marks.

An 1884-s is a great coin in any grade. It once had a fair premium in the g and vg range before spot silver went silly.

It still retains a nice premium in higher grades.

There was an s mintmark, but I sanded it off, because I was told that's how you like your Morgan's! If this is not true, I will give you the option of either I draw the s back on with my daughter's crayon, or drop the price to $4000, but you'd have to pay now!

No Mintmarks for me, just a couple nice chunks of silver!

eyes watering from laughter