Cougar729
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Father's silver coin collection
Wanted to share this story with you all about my dad who has never really been into coins or coin collecting, so I was very surprised to learn that he had what I considered to be a somewhat extensive collection of silver coins. Today after we had returned from visiting a few cemeteries for Memorial Day we got on the subject and I described to him what coin roll hunting was and how I had had a little luck with finding some silver coins here and there. I had brought one of my Morgan dollars that I had picked up at an auction a few weeks ago to let him look at it. To my surprise he mentioned to me that he had several of those along with other coins, although he wasn’t sure what they were or if they were silver or not. I told him that I’d love to take a look if wanted to bring them out. He brought what he had out and we started going through them and looking them up in the red book I had brought along. We talked about the different years, varieties, and where mint marks were located on the various coins.
All in all I counted about 13 different Morgan dollars, 6 Peace dollars, 8 Walking Liberty halves, 6 Ben Franklin halves, 5 of the nicest 1964 Kennedy halves I’ve seen, 6 or so Washington Quarters, a Standing Liberty quarter, 2 silver dimes, and few wheates (all pre 1930’s and a 1955- no double die) In addition to the coins there was a 1928 Red seal $2 bill in rough shape. Nothing turned out to be a key date or valuable variety, but the experience of sitting down and going through these coins with him was very valuable to me.
My dad has had health problems over the last several years, so it was great to spend time doing something like this that we both enjoyed. Most of these coins he had inherited from his father after he passed away several years ago. I think he enjoyed just knowing he had something of his fathers, more than exactly what the coins where or their value. I think that someday I may own these coins that have been passed down from him and will be very glad to keep them in my collection, not so much for the value of the coins themselves, but for the value of knowing where they came from and who had them before me.
Wanted to share this story with you all about my dad who has never really been into coins or coin collecting, so I was very surprised to learn that he had what I considered to be a somewhat extensive collection of silver coins. Today after we had returned from visiting a few cemeteries for Memorial Day we got on the subject and I described to him what coin roll hunting was and how I had had a little luck with finding some silver coins here and there. I had brought one of my Morgan dollars that I had picked up at an auction a few weeks ago to let him look at it. To my surprise he mentioned to me that he had several of those along with other coins, although he wasn’t sure what they were or if they were silver or not. I told him that I’d love to take a look if wanted to bring them out. He brought what he had out and we started going through them and looking them up in the red book I had brought along. We talked about the different years, varieties, and where mint marks were located on the various coins.
All in all I counted about 13 different Morgan dollars, 6 Peace dollars, 8 Walking Liberty halves, 6 Ben Franklin halves, 5 of the nicest 1964 Kennedy halves I’ve seen, 6 or so Washington Quarters, a Standing Liberty quarter, 2 silver dimes, and few wheates (all pre 1930’s and a 1955- no double die) In addition to the coins there was a 1928 Red seal $2 bill in rough shape. Nothing turned out to be a key date or valuable variety, but the experience of sitting down and going through these coins with him was very valuable to me.
My dad has had health problems over the last several years, so it was great to spend time doing something like this that we both enjoyed. Most of these coins he had inherited from his father after he passed away several years ago. I think he enjoyed just knowing he had something of his fathers, more than exactly what the coins where or their value. I think that someday I may own these coins that have been passed down from him and will be very glad to keep them in my collection, not so much for the value of the coins themselves, but for the value of knowing where they came from and who had them before me.
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