Post a picture of a coin you inherited

Many of us have inherited coins. I suspect many/most of them are heavily circulated common date coins. Still, it seems to me, there is a very real connection that you get when you hold/look at a coin that you inherited. Decades ago I inherited a bunch of coins from my paternal grandparents. I've never been sure who collected them, as my grandfather died (1957) before I was born, and my grandmother (who died in 1986, when I was 27) as far as I can remember, never showed any particular coin collecting interest. There are certainly a reasonable slug of post 1957 coins, but for the most part the coins are dated well before that date.

Post a picture of a coin that you inherited.

 

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98% of my coins (nearly 4000) were inherited 20 months ago from my Father-in-Law. I was the only one who showed an interest in his hobby. I will show 2.
1 Saxony Thaler 1763
Carson City Morgan 1883

 

This 1915 buffalo nickel the story is priceless as so is the coin.This is the coin that started my uncles joy into coin Collecting.Including the incredible coins he inherited from my grandfather.It was a nice Friday afternoon school had just ended this was during the 60'S.He was thirsty so with the left over lunch money,there was coke machine nearby.Didn't have a nickel so he put a dime in and got this back as his change.It was the start of a new beginning for him.

 

I got back into collecting during the pandemic. I found a sealed envelope from my father. I had no idea that it was in my coin box. In it was this gem of a gold coin, which is my favorite. It is graded at AU-55.

 

My mom's birth year silver Peace dollar given to her as a child and passed on to me at her death.

 

Worth far more than mere money, love that coin

 

After my father died we found a crumbling folder in his SDB with a few common date Morgans in it.. probably from the bank releases in the early 60s. Here is one

 

Ain't got one.........they all took it with them.

 

My grandfather passed out his coins to his 5 grandchildren in 1972. They were literally a pile of raw coins that he kept in a box. He put the pile on a table and the five of us took turns picking one. Afterwards, there was some horse trading. I somehow ended up with a 1948 Canadian dollar, half dollar, and the 1947 Maple Leaf dollar, quarter, dime, and nickel. When I later found out that the 1948 $1 was worth more than a thousand dollars, I was hooked.

Grandpa was the head librarian at the Chicago Tribune during the 1940s-60s period. Back then, major newspapers had actual libraries. He hobnobbed with Colonel McCormick, and in his younger days during the Roaring Twenties, he played trumpet in speakeasies and strip clubs, and carried a revolver in his trumpet case. His predecessor at the Tribune had connections all over the world who mailed him coins. When this man died and grandpa took over, for several years the coins kept arriving. I suspect many also came from journalists returning from foreign assignments. His pile of hundreds of coins were from dozens of countries, mostly low value early 20th century.

As it turned out, grandpa had lung cancer and when we all got together and distributed his coins, over Thanksgiving, it would be the last time we saw him. He died a month later. Looking back, I'm sure he got immense joy out of watching his grandkids drooling over hunks of silver. We still all have all of them, although I'm the only one who kept an interest in coin collecting.

 

the coin collection I inherited was invisible. in other words, it no longer existed in the estate. womp woooomp.....

otherwise, nope, I've never inherited a coin. Some old empty whitman folders from my aunt she gave me in like 1981, she was the collector that died and willed me her collection which nobody could locate and assume she sold it all over the years.... but those folders started me on my path to my own collection I've been working on for 40 years.

 

My grandmother lived in Chicago in the 1940's and 1950's and was a collector of low-denomination US coins.

She had several coin albums including one for Indian Head Cents.


United States Indian Head Cent 1908-S

 

My Grandfather acquired this 1915 Panama/Pacific Commemorative in 1915 at Face value on a business trip to San Francisco that same year. (He passed on in 1940 before I was born 4 years later.) The coin was in an envelope with other coins he'd collected until I took an interest in late 1950's and they became mine. I also have a 1926 Stone Mountain (GA) Commemorative he picked up that year also at Face Value. I have his letter to my Grandmother about his visit to a "sleepy Dixie town" which I treasure! (I lived 14 years in that sleepy Dixie town from 1986 to 2002.)

 

I'll bet he did and it was worth every expression on your faces for him to share his coins. Sounds like a great man.

 

A couple from my grandfather... Like so many others that have been or will be posted here they aren't super valuable, but the connection to him through them makes them priceless.

 

I kept this kruggerand from my dads estate and sold all the others I inherited.the funny thing is about 2 years later I got hooked on coin collecting and am totally addicted!

 

Same here, picture is an empty box.

But they left bills behind.

 

I got these coins from pappy (my grandfather on my mother's side).

 

Not an inheritance but just as special. This is the coin my Father bought for my Birthday but sadly passed 1 month before being able to give it to me.