I Was Just Given My Dad's Collection!

I am doing two Morgans since most of the coins are Morgans and someone said they were looking forward to seeing them. These two are my favorites. Again, the pictures (with those plastic holders) don't do them justice.

Those are some nice looking coins Jill. Hope you are able to post more pictures. Good luck with expanding your collection.

Thanks! I looked up that coin and that's exactly what it looks like. Very worn, but I think it's cool just because it's so old.

My uncle gave me an idea when we were talking. I am still going to collect Peace dollars and Walking Liberty half dollars, but I might also just collect one of each of each coin minted in the US in the 19th and 20th centuries. The best I can afford. So I wouldn't need to worry about expensive key coins for some types of coins. So I could get a common coin in high quality and it would be a very interesting collection to look at.

@jillabean, those are some really nice coins and nice work with your photography. On the coins that are currently stored in those cardboard 2x2s, I would strongly recommend taking a pair of pliers and carefully flattening them. Otherwise, the protruding metal can scratch the adjacent coin through the thin plastic window.

The Peace dollar is gorgeous

Very nice collection. Love the Morgans!

Great job on the pictures as well.

and oh yea to CCF

Thanks again everyone (especially for the advice on the staples and type sets). I put all the coins in my album, so the staples are under plastic, but it would be good to crush them down. It looks like most were crushed down, but a few have been bent up again I think. I wish I could take pictures of all of them and share them. I have another Peace dollar that looks great (to me) too and all the Morgans are so detailed (except one, an 1891-0 that might be Good condition at best... this is just me guessing). Considering the rest of my dad's coins are proofs or MS64 and such, I wonder why it's there. I wonder if maybe it was one of mine that he had in the collection he built for me (maybe it didn't sell and he just paid me for it and kept it in his collection).