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New Member
United States
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What condition (roughly) are these and what is a fair value for each? Just the melt value? Sorry, newbie here. Will be posting lots more silver and gold questions soon!  Edited by teosdesserts
12/23/2017 9:45 pm
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Forum Dad
 United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
564 Posts |
These look like they have some environmental damage or just weird toning on them and have been decently circulated. Plus these are most are common, so I think they are worth about melt value.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Welcome to the site. I'm going to tell you something most people wouldn't say - clean those coins. They will always have at least bullion value so now is the time to see if any are better than bullion grade.
Go to a coin or jewelry store and buy "coin dip" or "ring dip" for silver and gold. (In Canada-TarnX works, don't know for USA, use gloves). Don't use polish. Put the dollar in for 10 to 15 seconds and see if it's clean, if not, another 10 seconds. Stop then as any longer may dull the coin. I'll bet a couple of those dollars will come out shining almost like new. That very dark one will need a little bit of finger-rubbing between dips and will probably have no shine. Rinse everything well.
It's sure worth a try. Would like to see a photo of results if you do it.
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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
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Cleaning them will make them look better if you intend on keeping them,
but they will still only be worth bullion value.
For that year silver dollar to be worth more than bullion, they have to be in MS condition.
There were about 3 million minted are just too many higher grades around for anything
less than MS to have any value.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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This is just somewhat unattractive toning. At my LCS, these would sell for bullion, whether they are dipped or not. A slabbed coin MS64+ might sell for more, but it would have to be quite exceptional to justify the grading fees.
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New Member
 United States
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Thank you for all the replies so far! I have a bunch of other Canadian silver dollars in similar condition, so I will assume the same for those. I appreciate the insight!
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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
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It all depends on the years and condition.
Some are still worth more even if circulated or toned.
If you can supply a list of what you have,
someone can tell you what is worth keeping and
what is bullion.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I have a bunch of other Canadian silver dollars in similar condition, so I will assume the same for those. Too early to make such a statement. Always post both sides,.. and best if showing one coin at a time. To me, most of those dollars look just fine with that toning. You choose the best in your opinion and we will try our best.. |
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New Member
United States
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1936: 1
1939: 1
1951: 1
1953: 1
1956: 1
1957: 3
1958: 22
1959: 2
1960: 3
1961: 3
1962: 2
1963: 5
1964: 7
1965: 28 (may have broken an uncirculated roll....had a roll and they are all nice and shiny)
1966: 12
1967: 17
I'll get some pictures up soon!
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Valued Member
Canada
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Very nice! Can you post pic's of 36 and 39. Check your 65's and 67's for reverse Die Axis and let us know.You mentioned gold  |
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New Member
United States
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Here we have the 36 and 39 and examples from the roll of 65s    I guess the scratches mean they were circulated. |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Always post both sides,.. and best if showing one coin at a time Discard any blurry pics like your top 2.. Show a large reverse photo and a large matching obverse..sharp and clear ..and much bigger than these.. Take many shots of the same coin and keep only the perfect pics..for here..*straight on with no tilting please..* We have a much better chance of helping then.. The bottom 2 obverses.(..but we naturally don't know which dates...because you didn't include the reverse ..  ) are probably mint state..even with the weak photos.. |
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New Member
United States
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Thanks for the comments on the pics, and the two at the bottom are 65s as I stated in my post. I found another 200-300 of these and am taking everything to a local shop so as to not have to deal with this entire process. Thanks for all the information thus far.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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.. so as to not have to deal with this entire process.. The key to this whole operation is knowledge..and any knowledge that you gain here on any specific or special dollar will be lost as you dump them in front of a "local shop". If you do not go in knowing exactly what you have,..they will offer you melt for all of these. They might be only worth melt in reality,..but we will never know, will we, as we never got to see them.. |
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Valued Member
Canada
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Don't be too impatient my friend, for example the 36 and 39 look better than melt value. I understand with hundreds of silver dollars the urge for a quick chunk of change is strong but consider that some could be worth many times over melt.
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