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My CC, O, D and S are "processing." My two Philadelphia coins (Morgan and Peace) still are "backordered."

That has the look of a GSA Morgan dollar!

To the OP, I'd guess AU 55. I have an 1893 Morgan dollar graded XF40 (PCGS), and it is far more worn. I doubt very much that yours is a mint state coin. But it's a very nice coin, and I wouldn't worry about "overpaying," when the amount by which you may have overpaid is so little (especially in a market as fluid as Morgan dollars and Peace dollars are right now). I long ago decided that I am far more concerned with getting the coin I want, truly in the condition I want, than about a very few dollars one way or another.

A Jefferson quarter would, indeed, be quite a find....

Wow! These kind of put my "I went to the bank a whole bunch of times, buying rolls of quarters, in order to get a complete set" to shame!

I'll happily undercut that! How about an even $2000 for what I paid $510 (plus a lot of aggravation)?

Very nice! Mint state wartime silver nickels are surprisingly affordable, if you're not going for top pop examples. And they do look nice! Jefferson nickels, IMO, are an excellent set to get the entire set in mint state, for a very little bit of money, and the old ones tone very nicely.

Yeah, I've done the same thing. Mostly I get what I expected to get, but sometimes....

Just a little print! Where do you get 90 year old raw coins that clean?

Very nice coins! I'm curious what grades they are; they look very clean!

I started collecting coins as a kid in the early 1960s, Lincoln cents out of circulation. My parents helped by starting a penny jar, into which they would dump their pennies. I went through it periodically, and added prizes to my Whitman folder (which I still have). My holy grail coins were, of course, the 1909-S VDB and the 1955 DDO. I never dreamed that I would ever own one. I did get a couple of 1909-VDB samples, both in fairly good condition. Fast forward a few decades, and I've had a good year. I look at these with wonder almost every day.

I certainly have no issues with people's design tastes! I was in large part reacting to a subtext in a couple of the posts indicating hostility to the idea of a series of coins honoring women.

I collect only US coins (well, other than one ancient Greek coin), but I like the ones from the first half of the 20th century more than the more recent ones. But I do like the idea of a bunch of quarters each year, and they'll look lovely in a silver proof set.

I love them! It's long past time to recognize great women, instead of stifling them.

This is my most recent self-indulgence. I love silver dollars, and I like the story of the GSA hoard (and remember it happening).

Nice; I like the GSA dollars; pretty coins (though not cheap) with an interesting story behind them (and I'm old enough to remember all that happening).

I just received both the 2021 ASE "one ounce uncirculated coin" and the "reverse proof two-coin designer edition." I like silver coins, and I love the walking Liberty half dollar, so I was curious about these. I subscribed to the uncirculated coin, so I didn't have to go through the Mint's website crashing nonsense to buy it; I did go through that nonsense to get the "designer edition" proof set. Oddly, I like the uncirculated coin's beautiful satin finish far more than I like the reverse proof. But the good news is that the beauty of the satin finish makes me optimistic that I will like the 2021 Morgan and Peace coins that should be coming my way in the next month or so.

I would like to add to the excellent advice you've already been given. There are may different "goals" one can have for one's collection, and we each have a different budget. The trick, I think, is in figuring out what makes it fun for you, in a way that will still be fun next year and next decade, all within your budget. I don't think it's a bad idea to buy a bunch of low-grade coins (or "BU" modern coins), to fill the slots in an album/folder. That's not expensive, it's fun to see the slots fill, and you can find out if that's good enough for you, or do you want to upgrade. And you can find out, fairly inexpensively, which coins (type/series/era) appeal to you. Mark

I have an extra "O" that I'm hoping to trade for a "CC."

I have to agree. For whatever reason, I found the set intriguing, so I thought I'd give it a shot. Having braved the mess for the five Morgans and one Peace "dollar," I had low expectations. And they managed to underperform my low expectations. The site crashed less than a minute in, and I spent the next 67 minutes rowing through the error messages and roadblocks. I finally succeeded, but it doesn't make me want to play in the future. The mystery to me is why the mint prices these things at less than half what the market seems to be willing to pay (also the case with the Morgans and Peace "dollars"). EBay was full of people selling them for $400-$1100 right after they sold out (at about 2:30pm EDT), and even the auctions quickly went well north of $300. Mark

FWIW, I have bought a number of coins from Liberty Coin Service, and I have always been satisfied.

Those are utterly beautiful coins in high grades, and yours is a beautiful specimen! Mark

I did, all of that; thanks. I am "mixing a bunch of types of coins together" because that's the confusion to me--what is the difference in the strike of those coins. It sounds to me like the "uncirculated" coins are "struck on special presses using greater force than circulating coins, producing a sharp, intricately detailed image." Because that's what the Mint says. Sure, some of that is marketing hype, and they may not be "burnished," but they also aren't struck the same way as the coins struck for circulation. Hence my original question: If coins sold by the Mint as "uncirculated" are, in fact, "struck on special presses using greater force than circulating coins, producing a sharp, intricately detailed image," they should, on average, grade as better than the coins struck for circulation. Do the TPGs grade them along with coins struck for circulation that people buy in uncirculated condition from banks? And, if they're not materially different, how can someone advertise for sale MS70 coins that have not yet been struck (these are coins to be issued with "uncirculated finish")?

Are the recent Morgan and Peace dollars burnished?

Thanks; perhaps that's where I got the notion that they were different! Then back to my original question....