That's a nice collection. No, it's not worth a lot as investment collecting, but if your mother did what I did -- keep interesting things as she came across them -- then it represents a long time spent paying attention and many moments of joy in the finding.

Very interesting reading about the "Standing Liberty" and I've never seen the "Peace Dollars" before.

My Grandfather has a serious collection of silver dollars which his grandchildren have never seen: it's a nest egg, tucked away somewhere.

It's fun to look at, Jonathan. I've really enjoyed it. Although, of course, anything that requires me to go buy a book or two and learn something new is guaranteed to make me happy.

I may actually have the collection valued, then pay my sister for it, so I can keep the really interesting coins. (Not all of those worthless pennies or anything, of course.) I have my own modest collection which contains nothing that will ever be of any value, but which amuses me.

I have two or three of the Peace dollars. None of them are particularly valuable, being worth about $16 or so each. If I do buy the collection, I'll share one with you.

My dad's father used to give each of us kids a silver dollar for Christmas every year. Now that I look back on it, I think those were Peace or Morgan dollars and I wish I'd kept a few! (From my reading, it looks like there were several years when no dollar coins were struck at all. From '36 to '70, in fact. I need to do some research....)