Would You Bid On These Morgan's?

I would pay for the end coins and then assume culls or worn coins inside and no more.

Don't believe these came from the mint rolled ever, just in bags. Haven't been wrong on anything yet today though so I am due for a mistake.


Run away from listings like that. If you want to buy a roll of BU Morgans, buy one that has the roll opened and all the coins pictured.

If you use the CCF ebay search tools in the left hand column, you will find some sellers that do just that. I have bought coins off of the user hsturn that were excellent that way. Found this guy from the CCF ebay search tool, use it and look for a picture in the results of a roll all presented that way. Notice the photographic background being similar on several of them in the search results, that is a dealer worth checking out.

http://www.coincommunity.com/hot_us...ns/rolls.asp

Good luck.

I hope that I am replying to Slider 23 - this is my first attempt in
this forum.

This same seller was offering a coin "graded" ms67 by some service unknown to me; same coin which pcgs listed at $16000 retail; there were several bidders scurrying
to buy from him at a little over $100. Under his description he actually stated "ms67" (which I thought was illegal).

At which point I decided to ignore his listings.

Tanguero,

The seller of the rolls also lists the coins as being uncirculated. If the mint never rolled Morgans as Cascade notes, how would the seller know the coins are uncirculated?

Because he put them there

This seller is violating a lot of ebay rules as two coins listed with holder grades in title not ebay authorized to list grades in title the 1882 CC MS66 and 1921 MS 67.

It appears the seller is bidding on his own listings. Currently bidder S***S (0) is the high bidder on the following items: 1882CC MS66, 1921 MS67, two vintage Morgan dollars and the 1884 roll of coins.

It should be noted that paper coin rolls were not yet invented in 1884.

Dave, just for giggles, it should be noted that $20 of Morgans in 1884 was 1 to 3 months' rent, or a year's supply of heating/cooking fuel (wood or coal) :P

Average manual laborer such as a coal mine worker earned between $1.10 to $4.00 per day. An upper class working family might be bringing in the bacon to the tune of $1500-$2000 per year.

(Those incomes include the summed earnings of the household. Everyone in your house/tenement/apartment worked, for the most part, yes, even the women and older children, and most families had 3 to 5 kids or more.)

To an average coal miner or journeyman tradesman in that time period, having a roll of Morgan dollars in your pocket back then would be pretty much like having 200 or so rolls of Golden Presidential dollars in your pocket now; good luck.