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TAM;
Thanks

What we have found so far is.. Mom knew what she was looking for.

Other then some paper money and a few coins collected for sentimental value.(dates of birthdays, special events in her life, ect.)
Most everything she collected is in the 90% silver content. Nickles, Dimes, quarters, Morgan, Peace, Seated Liberty dollars... Heck even the Eisenhower dollars she collected are from the San Francisco mint in '71-'74 the only mint that made Eisenhower dollar with any silver content (%40)
Overall
About a 1/3 in very good condition, with decent Numismatic value.
A few in the Uncirculated category, scattered about in Morgans, Peace, and a few quarters and dimes, having significant Numismatic value.
1/3 in the "some" Numismatic value (meaning worth more then just the silver)
and 1/3 in what the proprietor at the coin shop yesterday called a "Daily Dollar".. No numismatic value, but still worth much more then face value due to silver content.
The penny's we have are a mix... but so far, all have numismatic value well above intrinsic value.
So even the worst shape Morgan we have is worth $29 or so

alas, no truly rare Date / Mint/ Mint error / Condition coins have been found yet... but we are still looking.

The Annoyed Man wrote: 1971-1976 Eisenhower Dollars are also only 40% silver);

TAM of note, my research has shown ONLY Eisenhower Dollars minted at San Francisco (mint mark "S")had silver content. And only up until 1976.
1971
1971-D
1971-S 40% Silver
1971-S 40% Silver Peg Leg
1971-S 40% Silver Partial Peg Leg
1971-S 40% Silver
1972 "High Relief Earth" Type I
1972 "Low Relief Earth" Type II
1972 "Modified High Relief" Type III
1972-D
1973
1973-D
1973-S copper/nickel clad proof
1973-S 40% silver
1974
1974-D
1974-S copper/nickel clad proof
1974-S 40% silver
1776-1976 Bold reverse letters
1776-1976 Thin reverse letters
1776-1976-D Bold reverse letters
1776-1976-D Thin reverse letters
1776-1976-S Bold rev. letters proof
1776-1976-S Thin rev. letters proof
1776-1976-S 40% silver
1977-D
1977-S copper/nickel clad proof
1978-D
1978-S copper/nickel

Anyone here into collecting coins?

While I can not say it's a calling or a hobby, im involved in it in any case, due to a large collection my Mother left to me in 2005.

It literally has sat in my closet cased up since 2005...
My wife brought it all out this afternoon and we started going though it.

More then 400 Silver dollars from 1878 to 1921
Hundreds of 1/2 dollars.
Dimes, nickles, Penney's, some paper currency and some coins worth face value or a bit more.

We have sorted by denomination and type (year group), mint, and now trying to sort by condition...
That is a gray area if ever there was one.

Lots of online info, but much of it conflicting.

If there are "good" resources, I'd love to have a link.... If there is a shop in CENTEX willing to give some help with grading info, vice just a sales pitch, Im willing to listen.

We decided to just start SOMEPLACE... just separating them into to types and years was a task.
Then we moved them in the holder pages to sort by mint.

Now is the hard part, sub sorting them by grade.

There is SOOOO much info and photo grading available online,, it is easy to get a basic guess going.

Time consuming, but not hard.

Now Im sure I will be shown many times over why I choose wrong and a self graded Very Good (VG10) 1878 Morgan is really a Good (G4).
Perhaps if lucky, a coin I grade as Very Fine (VF35) is really Almost Uncirculated (AU50) :-D