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My aunt is letting me sort through her late husband's box of junk silver. I'm just getting started really but I just now realized that the stack of Morgan Halves has one coin each from 1892 through 1915 with the notable exception of 1897. Question: Would anyone find extra value to the fact that there are so many sequential mintage years? Most all are quite slick. Outside of the date most features on the obverse are smooth, no facial features, And the reverse have a few where you can read the motto and see some bars on the shield. I'm sure I'll be posting more as I work through these. I'm excited for the roll of Mercury dimes. It's not a big collection, but it is about 8 lbs, so it's not nothing. Thanks all. |
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Maybe he pulled them out of an old coin board? Trivia - they were actually called Morgan halves on the early coin boards! David Lange (RIP) had some articles about these but I can't remember if he addressed why people called them Morgan half dollars. Someone might be interested in them as a whole group, possibly a lowball collector depending on how worn they are.  |
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@boi, I fixed the title for you. To answer your question about a date run, no I don't think that this adds to the overall value unless perhaps it is complete, with zero holes. Rather, a collection is based on the aggregate value of the component coins.
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Here is a small sample. Not looking to sell them. Pretty much cataloging them for my aunt so she knows what she has. Looking for anything that should be set aside as extra special and not just junk silver.
I'm throwing anything that seems low mintage into flips. I have found d a couple of double die Franlin Halves so far.
But, as you can see, they are quite slick.
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to the CCF Those are average circulated Barber halves that likely grade in the G/VG range. This is by far the most common grade for surviving examples of this 'workhorse of the economy' coin which saw extensive use in daily commerce. Agree with @Spence that the date run is not consequential to the value of the set of coins. Also - the examples shown are too well preserved to be of any interest to a lowball collector.
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Boiled Dove, Please post a couple photos of your double d die Franklins just to make sure they are double d dies and not MD. John1  |
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The date set as a whole doesn't make it worth more. What you have shown are AG-G examples. The 1892-S you have is worth a premium.
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Thanks everyone. I'm just getting into this, but I really dig it. Learning so much, so fast. Thanks for all your help.
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The discussion of the "Morgan" name being used to describe what we call the "Barber" half reminded me of a 1940 Whitman folder I have. It wasn't just the halves that had this nomenclature. I read somewhere that some people thought the Barber liberty head resembled the Morgan dollar liberty head, thus the use of George T.'s last name.  |
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Wow, never saw one of those!
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I wonder if that folder is collectable? John1 |
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I dug up a David Lange article in the spring 2022 BCCS journal. All he says about the Morgan name is "What we now call Barber dimes were known variously as Liberty Head or Morgan Dimes during the 1930s-40s." The earliest coin boards were called Morgan Type Dime Collection and Morgan Type Quarter Collection, with no mention of Liberty Head in the title until later editions. So dime, quarter and half were all known as "Morgan types." In tiny print on the dime board it says "C.T. Morgan designed the silver dollar of this type in 1878. This 80s [? illegible] type dime conforms to the 1878 dollar as to type". This seems to agree with what @jpsned says - apparently the Liberty head on the dollar, half, quarter and dime were somehow thought of as the same "type", and assigned them all to Morgan. At the bottom of the dime board, it also says " Charles E. Barber designed this dime", so clearly they were aware that it wasn't Morgan who designed them. Kind of a big snub to Barber! Oddly the nickels were still called Liberty Head nickels, without mentioning Morgan or Barber. Apologies for deflecting the topic. |
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I wonder if that folder is collectable?
John1 I don't know if it's a collectable. But one thing it has is something I guarantee the current version of this folder doesn't have: 
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