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Posted: 5/28/2017 3:28:53 AM EDT
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To collect Morgans you have to have knowledge of all the VAN's (can't remember what it stands for), which are different variations and strikes.
There are hundreds of them. I buy 1926 Peace dollars as that was the year my Mom was born. I give them to her. Also 1952 coins for my late Wife. Ed |
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Posted: 5/28/2017 3:35:57 AM EDT
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I don't collect them, but I have a 1879-CC and a 1889-CC in my safety deposit box.
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Posted: 5/28/2017 3:39:19 AM EDT
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I collect Morgans insofar as they are a solid source of silver that are cool to hold.
Not particularly interested in numismatic premiums. |
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Posted: 5/28/2017 3:45:29 AM EDT
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I don't collect them, but I have a 1879-CC and a 1889-CC in my safety deposit box. Next to that, 93s is the holy Grail. 95 business strike is next.... |
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Posted: 5/28/2017 4:21:39 AM EDT
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I have a few . Mostly New Orleans mint
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Posted: 5/28/2017 4:25:32 AM EDT
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I have a few. Not enough to retire on. Left over from the old Vegas days.
Let me know if you have to fill in a blank. |
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Posted: 5/28/2017 4:33:02 AM EDT
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Any idea of the grade on that 89cc? |
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Posted: 5/28/2017 4:38:55 AM EDT
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To collect Morgans you have to have knowledge of all the VAN's (can't remember what it stands for), which are different variations and strikes. There are hundreds of them. I buy 1926 Peace dollars as that was the year my Mom was born. I give them to her. Also 1952 coins for my late Wife. Ed |
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Posted: 5/28/2017 4:56:38 AM EDT
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I don't collect them but I gave mine to the first enlisted guy who saluted me after I got commissioned. He was a Army National Guard SGT who served 10 years in the USMC as an Infantry dude and then as a MARSOC. Super dude
I had him walk in front of me and turn around salute me. |
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Posted: 5/28/2017 5:09:35 AM EDT
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I did, but during the last couple of years the chinese really did a marvel job counterfeiting them. And I mean REALLY excelllent fakes.
As in "I stopped buying them when the first of those fakes showed up in my hands and I had an extremely hard time to figure out if they are real or not" well made fakes. |
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Posted: 5/28/2017 5:24:51 AM EDT
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I think I have about 20-30 of them I have gotten over the years
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Posted: 5/28/2017 5:49:56 AM EDT
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I have a bunch of Morgans. Mostly from Carson City. I love them as well.
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Posted: 5/28/2017 5:54:19 AM EDT
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Can't compete with the new award winning design.
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Posted: 5/28/2017 5:54:39 AM EDT
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I'll collect anything I can get my hands on, my personal favorite though is the Fiji Taku.
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Posted: 5/28/2017 6:38:43 AM EDT
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I'll collect anything I can get my hands on, my personal favorite though is the Fiji Taku. |
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Posted: 5/28/2017 6:55:40 AM EDT
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I'm a Morgan Freeman collector. A sample of my collection:
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Posted: 5/28/2017 7:08:54 AM EDT
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I think that one day those will be worth a fair bit. Somewhat limited production and no longer sanctioned by Fiji, sort of a sleeper coin. I have a fair number of them, few tubes of 1 ounce, half dozen of the boxed ones that came in water and some of the five ounce ones. I might even have a kilo coin laying around. Did they even make a kilo coin? |
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Posted: 5/28/2017 7:27:56 AM EDT
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Older coins were very pretty.
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Posted: 5/28/2017 7:42:44 AM EDT
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If they made a kilo coin I've never seen one. |
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Posted: 5/28/2017 8:00:26 AM EDT
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I have a few my mom had. Keeping them for posterity more than anything else.
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Posted: 5/28/2017 8:16:04 AM EDT
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My main collection is Morgans. This year I decided to work on certified "Proof Likes"
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Posted: 5/28/2017 8:28:39 AM EDT
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Posted: 5/28/2017 8:33:38 AM EDT
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I've got a dozen or so in the safe. They are well circulated.
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Posted: 5/28/2017 9:04:33 AM EDT
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I don't collect them, but I have a dozen or so silver dollars dating from 1899 to 1972.
Two of them are Morgan silver dollars, both are worn. One is 1899 the other is so worn I have no clue of the date.  Attached File
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Posted: 5/28/2017 9:20:37 AM EDT
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I have about twenty same as my brother. Dad bought them and we inherited. No idea of the worth, I do have an old receipt showing the cost around 3 grand but that's retail.
I'll pass them on to my niece as I have no idea of the worth nor do I care. |
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Posted: 5/28/2017 9:23:13 AM EDT
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Some of the loot I keep in my "pirate" leather pouches.
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Posted: 5/28/2017 9:31:17 AM EDT
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I have a number of Morgan silver dollars including several brilliant uncirculated ones dated 1889, several PCGS MS64 uncirculated silver Peace dollars dated 1925, and a gold Double Eagle dated 1865. My favorite is the Double Eagle. I really like that old style reverse featuring the eagle behind the shield. You don't see that style eagle anymore.
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Posted: 5/28/2017 9:33:50 AM EDT
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I have four, each of them given by newly-commissioned officers
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Posted: 5/28/2017 9:59:03 AM EDT
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One of Pops first assignments as a newly minted Ensign from the Naval Academy bin the 1950's was pursing officer. He was a bit of a collector and would go to the bank and get rolls of newly minted coins and go through the payroll cash and cull all the silver, replacing it with new coins before dispersing it.
Moms got cigar boxes of silver stacked on edge, including a few of Morgans. One day we'll have time to go through them. Safe enough for now. Guaranteed fake free! 
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Posted: 5/28/2017 10:13:14 AM EDT
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I say that they are the most beautiful US coin ever minted.
$20 at a garage sale last summer. 100 years older than me.  Attached File |
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Posted: 5/28/2017 10:22:42 AM EDT
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They make really cool belt buckles.
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Posted: 5/28/2017 10:27:32 AM EDT
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I pick them up here and there.
Then I turn them into these: 
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Posted: 5/28/2017 11:22:17 AM EDT
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Here's a few of my favorites
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Posted: 5/28/2017 11:28:42 AM EDT
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One of Pops first assignments as a newly minted Ensign from the Naval Academy bin the 1950's was pursing officer. He was a bit of a collector and would go to the bank and get rolls of newly minted coins and go through the payroll cash and cull all the silver, replacing it with new coins before dispersing it. Moms got cigar boxes of silver stacked on edge, including a few of Morgans. One day we'll have time to go through them. Safe enough for now. Guaranteed fake free! |
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Posted: 5/28/2017 11:31:31 AM EDT
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Morgans are very pretty and what started me collecting.
Then I discovered Bust halves... If you want to stay cash poor, coin rich, start collecting Bust halves. 
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Posted: 5/28/2017 11:31:43 AM EDT
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I pick them up here and there. Then I turn them into these: http://imageshack.com/a/img922/6859/cWfKSd.jpg http://imageshack.com/a/img922/9137/FWhbfQ.jpg http://imageshack.com/a/img923/7310/iO7LCN.jpg 
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Posted: 5/28/2017 11:31:51 AM EDT
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I pick them up here and there. Then I turn them into these: http://imageshack.com/a/img922/6859/cWfKSd.jpg http://imageshack.com/a/img922/9137/FWhbfQ.jpg http://imageshack.com/a/img923/7310/iO7LCN.jpg |
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Posted: 5/28/2017 11:45:25 AM EDT
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I pick them up here and there. Then I turn them into these: http://imageshack.com/a/img922/6859/cWfKSd.jpg http://imageshack.com/a/img922/9137/FWhbfQ.jpg http://imageshack.com/a/img923/7310/iO7LCN.jpg |
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Posted: 5/28/2017 12:20:53 PM EDT
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I know some people dig it but I'll never understand it. To destroy an irreplaceable, beautiful piece of American history to make a silver ring. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I pick them up here and there. Then I turn them into these: http://imageshack.com/a/img922/6859/cWfKSd.jpg http://imageshack.com/a/img922/9137/FWhbfQ.jpg http://imageshack.com/a/img923/7310/iO7LCN.jpg 
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Posted: 5/28/2017 12:24:09 PM EDT
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That's a god damned shame. I've got buff nickels, merc dimes, and franklin halves (liberty bell side) that grandpa skeletonized with a jeweler's saw. Cool stuff to hand down. Dad made rings from halves but the outside is smooth with the printing appearing on the insid15 |
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Posted: 5/28/2017 12:25:38 PM EDT
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I know some people dig it but I'll never understand it. To destroy an irreplaceable, beautiful piece of American history to make a silver ring. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I pick them up here and there. Then I turn them into these: http://imageshack.com/a/img922/6859/cWfKSd.jpg http://imageshack.com/a/img922/9137/FWhbfQ.jpg http://imageshack.com/a/img923/7310/iO7LCN.jpg |
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Posted: 5/28/2017 12:31:21 PM EDT
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No I only have collectible star wars coins. The quarters have little R2D2s on them. I'm not going to tell you they'll increase their value or even hold their current value. The truth is I bought them 'cause I like them. They have value to me and that's what matters.
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Posted: 5/28/2017 12:36:09 PM EDT
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Irreplaceable? There are 10s of millions of them. Sure he's not destroying CC Morgans worth thousands but I at least feel its a shame to destroy such nice pieces of Americana. Even the ones that have been circulated some. Hell, those are the ones that have actually been in the hands of people at that time, used in bars and saloons in the old west, in the 1900s, changing hands and buying God knows what. Cringes to see them turned into rings really. |
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Posted: 5/28/2017 12:37:19 PM EDT
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I agree, that kind of shit fucking infuriates me. Would I do it with a BU65 1883 O? No. Common dates are.....common and they're worth about 15 bucks right now. You'd shit if you saw what I use copper cent pieces for. |
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Posted: 5/28/2017 1:05:00 PM EDT
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I got a couple, mostly from the 20th century
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Posted: 5/28/2017 1:08:23 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/28/2017 1:12:51 PM EDT
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I was at an auction yesterday where common date/mint Morgans & Peace dollars in F-VF were going for $60 - $80. People get stupid sometimes.
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Posted: 5/28/2017 1:18:26 PM EDT
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I have @ 25 that my grandfather collected as a kid in the wild west. He was born in Texas in early 1900 and migrated to Montana tied to the saddle of a horse.
They are pretty cool. |
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Posted: 5/28/2017 1:25:23 PM EDT
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I agree, that kind of shit fucking infuriates me. I've only ever used culls/cleaned/common date coins. And, as the poster above said, I can take a $15 coin and turn it into something more valuable. I've posted them for sale on here once in awhile. I usually charge $90 for my Morgan rings. |
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Posted: 5/28/2017 1:36:26 PM EDT
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 Attached FileSome silver from my late granddad's collection |
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