My wife just inherited a boat load of Asian coins what's the best way to get a value on them?

What a pita! Japanese, Chinese, Korean coins & paper money. From Chinese knife money & bc round coins to about 1960s.
They all look a like! Cant even read the dates! Ugh very frustrating. Where should I start without going crazy?
Thanks Tom

 

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Start by posting some pictures. We like pictures.
Here are a few sites that can help you with Chinese Cash coins:
http://www.calgarycoin.com/reference/china/china8.htm#chien lung
http://www.sportstune.com/chinese/coins/idpage.html

Not sure what Korean coins you have, but I am certainly interested and I think @mlov43 may be as well.
@AnYangMan also is quite knowledgeable.
I'm sure there are loads of others I am forgetting at the moment.

 

Cool! Thanks I got I've have close to 1500 - 2000 of them!
Tom

 

Here I am!

Yep. Please post pics of them... Like an "aerial shot," not each coin.

 

Just separate the one with holes from the ones without.
The ones with holes are most likely the older cast coinage.

That could be a start..

 

Must be a couple of hundred!

 

Here are some!

 

Nice initial photos!

You could lay out the hundreds of coins out on a dining table and take a couple of wider-angle photos. It's work, I know, but if I had that many coins and wanted an opinion on them from a forum site like this one, I'd want to try to get them all pictured.

 

Thanks for the tag @furryfrog02! Quite the assortment of coins, although I am afraid the main draw to these photos, the Qi-Knife, is sadly a forgery. The rest are mostly Chinese and range from Song to Ching, altough none are extremely valueable. A nice Huizong though! Maybe there are some goodies hidden in the rest of the images!

 

Perhaps @gxseries , @jcm , @Loong Siew would also like to take a gander?

 

I dont know about counterfeit, they where bought at a reputable auction hans m. F. Schulman on 5th ave in Manhattan in 1958.

 

I've got tons more!

 

You name the dynasty I've probably got it!

 

More

 

Wow. I just KNEW it about that knife...We have had the pleasure of looking at some beautiful knife coins of a CTer here, @TypeCoin971793 - so almost by osmosis, I could sort of feel it and I said out loud to myself: "Self, something is not right with that knife." And then I said: "Hey! Self! Look! There is a Song Dynasty coin, similar or maybe even like the one @Parthicus gave you." (Okay, so I could use some human company! But that is why I come here! :-D).

p.s. didn't mean to get excited in case that first knife is not...um....Kosher @Thomas Kirby ^.^

 

Looking at it , I'm begin to think that too. To clean, to well done, to thick.

 

Okay. Photos?

 

You tell me what to look for and I will take the picture. I found some that are in packages that are labeled .

 

Fine. Lay all of THOSE out and shoot them.

 

This one