Anything silver is worth the current price of the silver, everything else is worth face value and not much more.
After WWII everyone collected coins and as a result there are a LOT of collections out there. With the exception of specifically rare things like 1909 VDB -S pennies, super rares like 1943 coppers (and the fakes greatly outnumber the few authentic ones) coins are worth their base metal and face value combined.
I have proof sets from each mint from 1967 forward and my grandmother bought me a new one every year and it kills me to see she paid about $12.00 at Kmart for each one because today I probably couldn't get more than $6 a set.
Morgan Dollars, Walking Liberty Half Dollars, Mercury Dimes, Buffalo Nickels and Wheat Pennies will all have some collector value above their silver or copper content but not as much as most people think.
The most valuable thing I got out of my collection was the time spent trying to fill collector books and looking for the ones I didn't have yet. Started with $25 worth of rolled pennies, nickels and dimes and would dump them out and grab the ones I needed then replace them with current examples, take them back to the bank and trade them for another $25 worth of pennies, nickels and dimes. Even in the late 1970s I was still finding a lot of wheats (about 30% of rolled pennies would be wheats) and some mercury dimes and buffalo nickels.
It's hard to be a ACLU hating, philosophically Libertarian, socially liberal, fiscally conservative, scientifically grounded, agnostic, porn admiring gun owner who believes in self determination.
Chuck, we miss ya man.
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