Oklahoma Woman's Gift Bag Of Silver Half-Dollars May Be Worth $100k+

Interesting article. As stated by others, I thought the article leaned towards an advertisement. I also thought the anticipated price was high. If all the coins were MS 64, full bell, the PCGS suggested retail price is in the neighborhood of $70,000, about the starting bid. But that many coins hitting the market at one time might crater the price. Good luck to whomever buys them.

You know whats really sad is that if he father would have invested $1,000 in an S&P Index fund in 1963, that money would be worth around $400,000 today. https://www.officialdata.org/us/sto...endYear=2023

It's a real shame that those coins are only worth about $100K (if she's lucky)!

Nick, I went to Rick Tomaska's web site and they were not bragging about it. Your observation is spot-on.

Works out to $37.50 each. 1963 FBLs go for over $1K, but ebay sold listings show some uncirculated 1963-D Franklins going for as little as $6

With his personal NGC label

Took me a while to dig through the archives to find this thread.

I was flipping channels yesterday and saw Rick's show was selling Walking Libertys that were "from a hoard". I thought they were from the hoard in this thread but no, they were from a "hoard" in Delaware. Apparently they bought 150,000 of them, at least that's what they said. They were selling them in bags of 25, 50 or 100. 25 was $500 something, 50 count was $995 and 100 count was $1979. They claimed they were unsearched.

They can claim whatever they want to, but reality will tell you something else!

During the past 77 years those coins have been searched numerous times by somebody, somewhere.

Even if one were to advertise this as truly "unsearched/original/sewn at the mint", I would be skeptical ... maybe I've just been "boiled like a frog" and have lost the ability to take things at face value. So much manipulation out there ...