Liberty Walking Half Dollars

My LCS is paying $5.00 on Walkers and Roosevelt common circulated for his 90% junk bin. It has gone down a bit lately.

It is kind of goofy because the price of gold has stayed around 1150-1250 an oz. for a while, but a $20 double eagle is still worth way over its actual gold scrap value. It is a beautiful coin, and is worth more than 1 oz. 50$ gold bullion piece. I do remember buying sterling silver trays, ornaments, teapots etc. ten years ago for small money. I could have filled a room with silver for $200,000. I didn't, of course, or I wouldn't be crying now. Who can predict the future? My wife liked to buy these cheap 14 carat gold rings back in early 2000's. She bought plenty and they are worth a lot relatively speaking. I was dumb and she was smart because I sold all my silver at a loss and she kept her gold. I think collecting beautiful objects should be its own reward. I am not trying to make money off coin collecting. I could buy stock and make 7-10% a year just to hold it. The idea of money is not the same as a coin. When we turned money into paper trash I think we lost a lot.

The price of common circulated walking liberties are largely tied to the price of silver, when silver is up their price goes up, when silver is down their value also goes down.