Just pawing around in my junk silver box.

I don't know about every collector, but I suspect many have a junk silver box. Mine is filled with an assortment of coins from many sources. Some are from my change. Yes, I look at my change and about once a year find a silver coin.

Foreign coins make up about a quarter of the contents. I've only taken the time to identify that they have silver content. Most are circulated and some like an 1871 Canadian Dime are nearly impossible to identify.

About half of the box is Kennedy half dollars from 1964 to 1970. Again circulated and again not really worth the effort to grade, catalog or even sell. Some of these are mine and some are from my father.

The other quarter of the box consists of circulated coins from my fathers collection. I inherited this 30 years ago and until this past weekend didn't even look at them. Imagine my surprise to find 10 Morgan dollars along with two dozen Peace dollars.

All were lightly circulated and some had obviously been cleaned at one time. The cleaning was obvious even to a novice like me. None of the Morgans are rare, but I thought that I'd list them just for the fun of it.

1 1878 with 7 tail-feathers estimated condition AU53 (cleaned)

1 1880-O estimated AU55

1 1883-O estimated AU55

1 1885-O estimated AU55 (cleaned)

4 1896 with two estimated AU55 (one severely cleaned with no cartwheel) and two estimated AU53

1 1921 estimated AU55

1 1921-S estimated AU55 (cleaned)

Maybe, I'll take some time and do some pictures some day.

Have a great week,

Phil

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