Estate Collection

Sounds like a fun opportunity to search. I don't know German coins quite as well, but if you come across any French in there let us know, I can tell you if there's anything of note/interest among them!

just carl, I can understand what your saying. But, I pride myself on being a good judge of character. As far as being robbed, They would have to get past my rotties. That won't happen. Anyway I picked up 37 Morgans, 15 Peace dollars, various coinage, & $5 1910 S IH, $5 1889 S Liberty (reeded), & $10 1901 Liberty. So far I've gone through about 12 Morgans, they seem to grade around F - Vf.they all have been cleaned . However I did find 3 that are Top 100's . My question is how much does cleaning drop the the value?

No, I haven't bought anything yet. Just wondering how much cleaning knocks off the value.

I had a similar situation happen now that I think about it. I did not perform any service nor buying the coins like chris12018 is doing. A family friend gave me the coins to look over and see how much they are worth. I told him I can bring a book the next day to look it over with him, but he told me just to take it back home with me. I didn't think about it at the time, but eventually I did and he put a lot of trust into me.

There wasn't a lot of rare coins, just several Morgans and silver dimes and quarters he picked up. One Morgan listed about $70 (this was less than 10 years ago, when I just started my coin collection a bit after) and the rest were bullion dime and quarters.

I kept all the coins in a bag and did not loose any. Anyways, he was thankful for the help and I suspect he left two silver dimes in my parent's restaurant cash register a few days after my birthday! He knew I searched through the register often and plus he access to it since he was the casier too. Anyways, that is just one story

It's too early in the morning...I meant blue book!

All appear to be really nice conditioned coins but for sure look cleaned. AND that is a real problem. Many years ago that would mean nothing and actually many, many people cleaned coins and almost anything old and got more money for that object. Today that has drastically changed. And I mean drastically. Not sure why or when the don't touch it craze started but possibly with the Antique Road Show TV series or similar programs. Not sure.
However, if you do watch that show you'll hear that famous statement "If you or someone hadn't of cleaned this, it would be worth many times what I just mentioned". With coins you'll now hear many times from Numismatist that I don't buy cleaned coins. Or don't buy that it has been cleaned. Note how many TPGS's actually now put CLEANED on the lable of their slabbed submittals or just send back the coins saying cleaned.
Regardless of actual or possible value of a coin or anything if no one or few want it, the value goes down, down, down. Naturally not true of everything like a used car lot where everything is cleaned dispite the fact that it is a lemon.
So back to your question. It is difficult to really say just how much a coin has lost it's value due to cleaning. If you want a coin, need it for your collection, don't anticipate ever selling it, just like it for what it is, not planning on considering it as an investment, then who cares if cleaned.
Myself, I buy many cleaned coins. Since I put all my coins in Albums, if possible, I'd rather have a completed set than always saying I can't find that one or that one without it being cleaned. AND, they sure are a lot cheaper to buy.

Again, as I said I buy many cleaned coins. To me if a coin is in really great shape or in what is called MS grades, I could care less that it may have been cleaned. If mine, they are mine, mine, mine. And I really don't care what others say about my coins.