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What's the best way to get rid of worn out silver dollars??

LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,381 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Suggestions on how to max. the value would be appreciated. image
"My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose.

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  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭
    Spend them at the grocery store. There is great value in the joyousness felt and splendor displayed by the clerk upon receipt of one.

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  • JrGMan2004JrGMan2004 Posts: 7,557 ✭


    << <i>Suggestions on how to max. the value would be appreciated. image >>

    Skip them across the Lake image
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  • 21Walker21Walker Posts: 1,762 ✭✭✭
    Give them to all your friends as pocket(book) pieces......Rick..............or wait for the Hunt Brothers resurgence.............
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  • fivecentsfivecents Posts: 11,207 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Sell them to me. I'm into making PO01 Morgans.image
  • midwestcoin13midwestcoin13 Posts: 583
    send them to my NWIH grading service for an extra buck I'll grade it MS70 image
  • longtimecollectorlongtimecollector Posts: 2,368 ✭
    Shine the snot outta 'em and make belt buckles !!! No joke........ A $3 holder and a $8 Morgan make a $25 belt buckle !!!!!!!
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  • fivecentsfivecents Posts: 11,207 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Shine the snot outta 'em and make belt buckles !!! No joke........ A $3 holder and a $8 Morgan make a $25 belt buckle !!!!!!! >>


    Coin Doctor!!!!
    Sorry but you had that coming.
  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,381 ✭✭✭✭✭
    You guys are great....what a community....image
    "My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose.
  • VeepVeep Posts: 1,423 ✭✭✭✭
    Sell 'em to Arizona Coin & Jewelry for $6.25 each. Their display add runs weekly in the Coin World classified section.
    "Let me tell ya Bud, you can buy junk anytime!"
  • dorancoinsdorancoins Posts: 2,091 ✭✭✭


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    There are a lot of kids who have never seen one - try given them out to them on Halloween - that'll light their eyes up!
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  • midwestcoin13midwestcoin13 Posts: 583


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    There are a lot of kids who have never seen one - try given them out to them on Halloween - that'll light their eyes up! >>



    O once gave out coins and you should have heard them scream when they heard that jingle!
  • stev32kstev32k Posts: 2,098 ✭✭✭
    Someone posted that they had given a worn out silver dollar as a tip to a waiter. That sounded like a good idea to me.
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  • ARCOARCO Posts: 4,396 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I give away beautiful, but common coins to friends and acquaintances as golf ball markers. I prefer half dollars, and my favorite is the Walking Liberty Half, but a Morgan Dollar would do just fine.

    Every person I have given the W.L. half to use as a ball marker has returned to tell me how much attention they get from other golfers for using the old silver half. It makes for a great conversation piece and the user is assured to have a unique and historic coin, that no one else will have.

    Tyler
  • LincolnCentManLincolnCentMan Posts: 5,347 ✭✭✭✭
    Leave them as tips. I do that some times, but not too often with dollars.

    David
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  • wvinchicwvinchic Posts: 101
    Sell them to me. I like to put them in my daughters piggy banks.

    Stacy
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  • clw54clw54 Posts: 3,815 ✭✭✭
    Put them in kids' Christmas stockings.
  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,530 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I think LTC had a point with the belt buckle idea. Dunno about "shining the snot out of 'em", but I think the belt buckle and/or money clip/jewelry/etc. idea is a wise way to "max the value", as you said.

    That is, if they aren't difficult to mount, and if one can find the buckles and such.

    I bought a bunch of keychain bezels for silver dollars, just in case such a thing happened to me. In fact, I recently got a whizzed-up 1921 that I'm gonna "shine the snot out of" and put in one o' those bezels. (Somebody already ruined it with the Brillo treatment, so maybe if I polish out some o' the hairlines it'll look a little better.)

    Edit to add: I got the keychain bezels from Brooklyn Gallery for less than a buck each.

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  • nankrautnankraut Posts: 4,565 ✭✭✭
    Russ said: TextSpend them at the grocery store. There is great value in the joyousness felt and splendor displayed by the clerk upon receipt of one.


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  • photogphotog Posts: 242 ✭✭
    I once met a guy because of some nasty SBAs and morgans. We were in line together back in 1995 to buy tickets to see Page and Plant at the Boston Garden. Turns out they didn't take credit cards so I spotted him the $13 cash he was short. I bought my tickets and we walked out to his truck where he paid me back in SBAs and morgans- had them in his change bin. He was amazed I knew what they were. We've stayed friends over the years, I get a christmas card annually and he's a stand up comedian. I've seen his act a couple of times, too.
    Not sure if you could apply this in any way, but maybe.

    Jenna
  • BarryBarry Posts: 10,100 ✭✭✭
    Group them and sell on Ebay.
  • p8ntp8nt Posts: 2,947 ✭✭✭
    You could always do a YN giveaway...

    (If you do, count me in please) image

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