Opinions on Collection

sthartman

Here is a little sample of what I have. Anyone have any comments or opinions. I haven't had any of them graded. any good possibilites here or other opinions?

MORGAN DOLLARS
1878
1879
1879-S
1880
1881
1881-S
1882
1883
1883-O
1883-S
1884
1884-O
1884-S
1885
1885-S
1887
1888
1888-O
1889
1889-O
1890
1890-O
1891-O
1892-O
1892-S
1896
1899-O
1900-O
1900-S
1901-O
1904
1921
1921-D
1921-S


PEACE DOLLARS
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1921
1922
1922-D
1922-S
1923
1923-D
1924
1924-S
1926
1926-D
1926-S
1927-D
1928-S
1934

BlueCole

with all the Morgans, i'd get a VAM book and become familler with some of the varities. It's hard to tell with just the date and MM.

feel free to ask any of the Morgan experts around here if you ahve any questions.

B.

DHeath

Sthartman,

Looks like you have quite a collection started. Without knowing the condition of the coins, or your collecting goals, it is hard to do much other than generalize, but if you could tell everyone a little more regarding your collection and your interests, I expect you can get some quality help and advice here. It appears you have a real fondness for the big silvers. I think all collectors share your fondness whether they collect them or not. Cool piece of US history, and pretty coins. I think Teresa de Francisci is prettier than Anna Williams, but that's just me.

coppercoins

sthartman - Without some idea as to grade, there's not much that one can respond to your post. It would be somewhere between extremely difficult and completely impossible to give you any information with date and mint mark alone.

Grading your own coins shouldn't be all that difficult. Get the pocket size paperback put out by the ANA on grading and read it. With the number of coins you have, you should learn to grade them. Don't go with the expensive services for your grading until at least you do enough homework to figure out whether the coins would be worth it. "Haven't had any of them graded," would mean to me that you haven't researched how to do it...and that should be your first step at this point.

Dog97

You got all the easy ones. Now you need the ones from the 90s & the CCs.

Striker

There isn't anything I could tell you that those that posted before me didn't. You have a nice collection started there, keep going and enjoy.

wingedliberty

Ditto to ANA grading guide and PCGS grading guide.

Brian.

Liberty

What's a "VAM book"?

wingedliberty

The Van Allen book (VAM) is a comprehensive guide to Morgan and Peace Dollars and the die varieties
attributed to both series.

Brian.

MastaHanky

You have an 1892-S and a 1921 Peace dollar...both of those are tough coins. Good start.

Liberty

Ah! Thanks WingedLiberty.

Liberty