What's the Most Expensive Item at Walpole's Westside Stamp & Coin Co.?

How much would you spend on a coin? Especially one that was originally valued at $1?

Lucien Liddy, owner of Westside Stamp & Coin Co. on East Street in downtown Walpole, has thousands of valuable dollar bills, coins and stamps in his shop. It's the rarity and condition of these items that determines what that value is.

"There are coins that are worth many thousands, but some of the coins are 50 cents," Liddy said.

So, what's the most expensive item in his shop?

An 1886 Morgan silver dollar minted in New Orleans valued at $9,950.

Liddy said the coin is hardly rare but it's condition rating is very high.

Coins are graded from a scale of 1-70. Liddy's coin is graded at 64.

"This is a 64. If it was a 63, which is one grade less, it would be a $3,000 coin. If it had been a 65, which is one grade more, it’d be a $150,000 coin,” he said.

Liddy said there are millions of the Morgan silver dollars in circulation that fetch on average about $25.

“They never found very many of that year that were of high quality,” he said.

That's what makes his so rare.

Liddy has been in the coin, bill and stamp business for 16 years. His interest in collecting began when he young.

“As a child I was a collector. I had an uncle who was a sea captain. He would come home and he would bring coins in the late 40’s, early 50’s from countries I had never heard of, countries I never thought I would never go to like east Africa, Egypt or Belgium," he said.

Liddy said he is enjoying is time in Walpole after moving his business from Canton in 2001.

TELL US: Have you stopped by Westside Stamp & Coin Co. on East Street in Walpole? What do you think of the coin, bill and stamp shop?