Advice On Selling Silver Coin Collection

You should get a bit more for the Walking Liberty halves than what you will get with the Washington quarters. The halves usually sell for an extra dollar or (times face) if your lucky.

I'm not an executor but I am reviewing a large collection, the same as you. I'm still in the process of looking at silver for potential key dates and rarities and am down to the dollars. There's a lot of key date dollars which, if genuine will eclipse the value of the junk silver. So, I wouldn't be in a great hurry to dispose of the collection if it were me until you have checked for key dates and rarities.

Also, I have convinced the family to hold on to the common junk silver, as none of them really need the money anyway. When I explained that silver once hit $49 an ounce it was enough to convince them of the upside of holding on to it. I got them to realize that it doesn't hurt to have a small hedge against disaster.