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Barber-Mercury-Roosevelt dime collection 100 different 90% silver - $400
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Therefore, spot value of silver in 90% silver US coins is 45.68 x face value
(based upon the standard 0.715 oz pure silver per $1 face value US 90% silver dimes/quarters/halves)
At $400, this is 40x face, so just over 87.5% of standard calculated silver value.
I'm throwing in the books free, plus permisson to copy my photos of them, and use them if/when you resell.
What's included:
Whitman large green Mercury-Roosevelt Dime book with:
3 different Barber dimes 90% silver
1900, 1911, 1913
I transplanted these from my nearly-empty Barber dime book
The 1900 is very worn, but the date is still there.
The 1911 and 1913 are very darkly toned, but are also very sharp.
Check out their close-up photos.
I'd be happy to remove the 3 Barbers and pro-rate the price for that.
Likewise if you think any of the older Mercurys are too worn for your taste.
But I will not permit using that to cherry pick dates and mint marks.
You won't get to say the P is too worn and the S is not, if they are similar.
51 different (of the 84 spaces) Mercury dimes 90% silver
46 different (of the 48 spaces) Roosevelt dimes 90% silver
missing only 1949-S and 1955-D
The book is in excellent condition, with just a Dymo label with my name on it, on the bottom of the back cover, which has been there for between 50-60 years. Yes, this is from my own personal childhood collection that I'm selling off now.
I added more photos (everything after the photo of the cover of the green Whitman book) after a request for mint marks and better Barber photos. Zoom in on the photos to read the dates and mint marks printed in the book. I'm not going to remove and flip over every coin for reverse pics, but did so for the Barbers.
I was meticulous about examining coins before putting them in the book as a kid. But if one is wrong, hey, these are still priced as a bargain on "Constitutional/junk silver". At that price, plus not having pulled almost any out of the book for over half a century, I'm just going to leave them be in there. Happy to let you check the reverse on a few when we meet, but again not as a ploy to cherry pick or lowball. I didn't exclude any coins for my own purposes, not even my parents', siblings', and my own birth years. So, neither can you.
I'm sure I could spend hours sorting through and checking exact condition and collector value.
But I have better things to do with my time, and like the idea of selling my collection as-is rather than picked over.
I'm not offended to be selling these as junk silver to a silver bug.
If you want to remove them from the books and roll them or throw them in a shoebox, I'm fine with that.
But if you want it as a date collection, so much the better.
It was not easy gathering all of these up, even though I had access to the cash register in my family's store before clad coins came out!
I can meet in Nashua, Keene, or other mutually convenient places north/west of Boston.
Please text before calling, because I assume all calls from unknown numbers are spam.
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