Silver Coins

[Ratpack]

Before my father passed away, he gave me a whole box of silver coins- Silver Dollars, Coins from early 1900-1950, $2.00 bills with red ink, etc.
I am wondering if these are worth selling or should I save them for later?
I want to have them appraised, but I don't want to be 'tricked', if they are really worth something. Would they tell me the truth? Any one have suggestions?

 

[kymom99]

Around my area there are several coin places. I would take them to a couple places and see if the appraised values are similar. You can also look online to check their values.

 

[LockShockBarrel]

My mom got my grandfathers coin collection and it's from similar dates as yours, what he had really isn't worth more than a few dollars over its initial value. The silver stuff you have might be worth more as scrap metal than coin but you'd have to look it up. There's a lot of good resources online when you start poking around, even just googling something like "1902 dime value" can give you a good start.