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trust 49ers advise

Get the blue and red book on coins , it will give you an idea .

Used to buy and sell on E BAY many years ago , but the commission are ridiculous any more .
The books will just give you an idea , not exact value as you know very little about grades , per your post .
Though the books will also give you an idea of the different grades .
You can buy Roman era coins for less than a few coins minted in the last 30 years .

Put them in a safe deposit box. Don’t let lay around the house. Wife and i had a bunch of stuff, and believe it was family that ripped us off. Only thing missing was coins, nothing else touched. Lessons learned, the hard way!

Just a note. Put them in a safe, or safe place that only you know where it is, and it cannot be readily taken or moved. Remember, the State or Gov can seize anything in a bank safety deposit box at any time.

Thanks for that, SJA. Good info.

It all depends on how much time you want to put into the effort. You're not going to retire on most passed on coin collections. Most are worth from a few hundred to a few thousand. Some are more liquid than others. Have fun and good luck...

I lost all my Baseball cards the Same way

My local shop was selling silver dollars for $30, and half dollars for $10, these were not collector quality or super rare. I would personally hold until silver goes back up.

Buy the way, silver dollars for common circulation are not pure silver. American silver eagles that have the face value of a dollar and have the word dollar on them are pure .999 silver 1 Troy ounce. And half dollars especially Kennedy's are all mixed up as to the amount of silver in them.

Gun safe works great!

Sounds like fun but you might want to look up the definition of the word pilfering! LOL

Kennedy halves came out in 1964 and were 90% silver as were the current quarters and dimes. As Steven49er stated, almost all silver was removed from the circularizing coinage in 1965 (the start of the era of the "clads") except for the Kennedy halves that were still 40% silver through 1970. In the 1971, the Kennedys went to being "clads" as well, except proofs. I believe the yearly proof sets still have 90% silver in the quarters, dimes, and if they struck any halves. The San Fran mint makes the proof sets, at least in the last 3 or so decades so if you find a U.S. "silver" coin with a S mint stamp since 1990 or so, it came from a proof set and has silver in it. Very rare to find any in circulation. Very rare to find any 1965-1970 Kennedys in circulation as well. Most any U.S. coins that have silver in them have been picked off during various earlier silver booms.

P.S. Look at any nickel that looks old and you might find some "war nickels" (1943-1945). Copper was in sort supply for munitions so nickels for those 3 years were made with 35% silver. As probably least known "modern" U.S. coin with silver content, a few of these are still out there in circulation but still pretty rare...

Non pc yes like I said kennedys are all botched up. We (in small rural towns) ones with large south of the border populations see an inordinate amount of silver coins I believe it is due to that group. I personally know of at least 2 fellows that still engage n silver mineing. They will go to the small town banks and buy 5 to 10 thousand dollars of haves and search the rolls. It's a big deal for them if they find a few 40 percent coins, it's their hobby. They then put them back in rolls and return them to another bank and start all over. Been doing it sense silver got near 40 a few years back. I've been in ag sense the eighties have a fair grasp of it now but still learning.

Yes the silver proof sets are silver, but not the common proof sets.

Buy the buy, wife worked for a vending co. for the last 30 years she finds quite a bit of old silver coins, but she is in the right spot for it.

aka "armchair coin shooting" :-)

Roger, there are more 40 percent halves floating around than most people realize. I've got several hundred I pulled out of circulation doing exactly what Casecollector spoke about. Several hundred dimes as well. Now how many silver quarters? 3 and one was a Canadian lol. Searching for war nickles is tedious. Searching was lot more productive before everybody started using debit cards.

Here is a fun fact for you Roger, Of the approximately 330 million 90 percent 1964 Kennedy half dollars made, 228 million were actually struck in 1965 and 66. They struck 1964 90 percent quarters and dimes into 66 as well.

49er, wife in her last life ran the north half of our state Ind. all of Ohio and the north of Penn. like I said a vending and dining co. The fellow that ran the coin count machine must have cleaned up. The coin counters kicked out the old coins, I think it was due to weight. When ag went on its big run I called him to ask if he would sell some. He told me he didn't pay attention to that stuff, I thanked him for his time and said good by. You can guess what I was really thinking. I trade the ag/au ratio have done fair over the years. Have a good new year.
Case.

Dog gonit apologizes to the OP did not mean to interrupt your post, sincerely I'm sorry.

Suggest you get on line and look at JM Bullion

https://www.jmbullion.com/

spot silver today is $23.75........but that does not reflect the selling value by a dealer, which is 33.03 for worn out silver dollars/coins called a cull

you will try to sell at as close to 90% of spot as you can get as your coins are 90% silver (forget about 40% right now), a buyer out in rural America is probably going to low ball you at 75 to 80 % of spot due to his overhead. as you can see they recover their over head by almost 10 dollars an ounce on 90% silver. ($33.03) (you sell to them at less than $23 and they sell to a collector for $33)

Your eagles are 99% pure and should trade about 3 to 5 dollars off spot

it sounds like you have s collection which a dealer would call an accumulation of low end material, no fancy holder from a grading service like PCGS NGC or ANACS

your half cents and and other copper coins will sell at 40% of retail you can. try to get more but probably wont as the dealer has to hold them till a collector comes around.
if you had any rare material it would be in a holder. not many people collect half cents anymore except high end material from the 1700s.

buy yourself a red book to see high end retail and a blue book to see what a dealer actually trades at.

if you do not need the money put it in a safety deposit box as inflation is high right now,.

there should be a local coin club in your state, contact them and they will help you.

good luck, collecting coins is worse than collecting traps, I have dealt with high end material to bullion, you can make more on bullion, I have even sold colonial coins in a two different Stacks Auction

so stack your silver coins into dollars count your dollars that would be the number of ounces you have of 90% silver: take 90% of spot and you have a ballpark on your retail value

get informed or lose money.

selling fur is no different than selling coins, its in the grade

Good luck

Ours wasn’t family, but $3500 in face value mostly silver maybe 1000 wheats and couple hundred Indian heads. All in a safe bolted to the floor. Ripped it off the floor with my spud bar. $14000 total stolen( jewelry, antiques, and the coins, also some power tools) we were both at work kids were 200 miles away at college. The thrives did 3 house on our road in one day.
Definitely a safety deposit box.