What Is A Fair Offering Price . . .

. . . for these classics? A lot of them I just kind of went "OOOOH PRETTY! I WANT ONE OF THOSE" and now have the opportunity to pick some up. One of my coworkers inherited a rather large collection from his grandpa, and is looking to sell a few pieces. I invited him to join us here 1) because he's going to have a lot left that he wants to hold onto, 2) he's very new to this, and 3) so he knows I'm not going to rip him off. (If you're already here . . . hi, Mark!)

So he brought in a whole bunch of coins today for me to check out, and here's what I'm interested in:

--roughly a dozen 90% halves. These include Barbers (which I would be reselling, probably to you's all, as I have no interest in the Barber series), Franklins, Kennedys, and one very gorgeous Standing Liberty (I've never seen one before that wasn't beat all to *coughcoughindistinctsyllables*). I know the Franklins and Kennedys are considered modern, but since everything here is 1964 or earlier and probably a lot of it is worth melt, I'm lumping them.

--two IHC--1899 and 1904. I was dumb and didn't write down which was which, but I'd grade one F/VF (feather detail mostly missing) and one XF/AU (I have a hard time with the higher grade XF/lower grade AU still).

--one 1886 Morgan, no mm, that I will say with confidence would grade at least AU-58 and might even warrant an MS grade; I saw no cleaning lines, and the only visible wear was a tiny bit of rub-mark on her cheek.

--one AU 1925 Peace. I don't know if there's a mm--not sure where it is on a Peace and since we were at work and trying to check out customers in between my goggling and him being all proud and stuff, I didn't have time to look.

--one 1850 large cent in XF/AU. I don't know my varieties very well, but it's the one where her hair is up in a bun in the back and she's wearing what looks like an open cap or possibly a solid crown that says LIBERTY on it.

--one V nickel I forgot to catch the year on. It's holed (right through the middle, too ), but other than that all of the detail is PERFECT.

--a trime I didn't catch a year on. I would call this VG/F--the III on the back is mostly just indicated now, not really "raised" per se.


--I mentioned the Walking Liberty above, but given that I know I won't be able to afford all this, I will say that she's the one I'd like most of all the halves, and she is a 1941 in VF/XF. Again, no idea where the mintmark is located.



What would be some fair prices for this stuff (separately, and if I offer together would the price go down)? When I asked, he didn't even know what "spot" was--I told him the two dollars would probably get $28/ea from a dealer if they're not rare dates and gave him a rough idea of what spot is at the moment. I don't want to rip him off, but I'd also like to find a fair price for myself. Most of these aren't things I plan on actively collecting a typeset of--they're things where I'd like one or two examples "just because," and I have no idea what kind of price range we're even talking about.



. . . . oh, and, uh. I don't know if this is allowed or not (hopefully it is), but if anybody's interested, he's got a metric crapton of Barbers, which I don't collect and everyone here seems to adore. I'd be happy to do a "buy from him, sell to someone else at cost" if someone here has a specific year or something they're looking for.