Reading this thread had inspired me to start a coin collection for my one week old son. I collected baseball cards as a kid and what a waste. I like the idea of getting coins from 100 years before his birth. Seems like 1913 had a lot going on with coins. Any significance to this year in the history of coins? Where are you finding values of non graded coins. I have been checking out ebay and have already bought a great condition wheat penny, but it seems to me that people are paying more than coins are worth in most cases. What's the deal?

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Posted by Lsut81

Member since Jun 2005

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Posted on 1/19/13 at 7:38 am to HeadyMurphey

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Where are you finding values of non graded coins.

There are tons of websites that will give you a general price of a coin in circulated condition or at least the melt value.

Speaking of grading, for the gurus on here, is it worth trying to get some of my pre-1923 silver dollars graded? I've got a few that are in really nice shape, but it looks like its about $30 a coin to get them graded

I mean, the ungraded ones go for $30-40 on ebay and the graded ones, if they are in fine condition, go for $70... How is that worth the investment

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Posted by LSURussian

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Posted on 1/19/13 at 12:09 pm to HeadyMurphey

The only thing about 1913 that immediately comes to mind is that was the changeover year for the design of the nickle. The mint stopped issuing the Barber designed "V" nickle and started issuing the "buffalo/Indian head" nickle.

There may be other special aspects of 1913 but that is the only one I know about.

Regarding finding the "value" of ungraded coins, eBay is the largest coin auction in the world so the value of the coins on there is what the buyers say it is, IMO.

This post was edited on 1/19/13 at 12:10 pm

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