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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;NewB, post: 1089326, member: 28966&quot;]Hi again all,</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;Thanks everyone for your help......I have no idea who this coin was intended for as it belonged to my deceased father inlaw. He collected coins, stamps, artifacts, guns and many other things. My wife and I aquired all of his possessions and now are tasked with finding a value of it all. We know we can just call a dealer and take a flat offer on the entire collection, but without getting some information on each piece we won&#039;t know if the price is fare. His collection was not organized and rather large. Bags of coins, stacks of mint sets and proof sets, stacks of paper money (Large and small bills, fractional notes, star notes, gold certificates, silver certificates, series serial number bills, etc.) and the bad part is none of the collection has been graded. I have identified several error coins (3 leg buffalo, many double die errors and key date coins) but with money bags of coins to go through it is consuming far too much time. I have made mistakes already on some of the collection, not knowing the culture of collectors and not doing enough research on some of the paper money before getting rid of it. I was sifting through some bills and found some series serial numbered 2 dollar bills in mint condition and brought them to the bank and cashed them in for face value before I found out they were worth a bundle (some were 6 in series). Then before I found out about star notes I saw a stack of bills that didn&#039;t seem special to me, so I cashed them in.....I didn&#039;t know that red/blue/gold seal and that star meant anything. Then I started learning a little about the nuministic part but as I was sifting through some of the coins I was having some trouble seeing the coins because of all the crud on the circulated coins and I did the unthinkable.......that&#039;s right, God forbid I cleaned some before I found out I ruined them in a collectors eye. That did it for me.......I piled the whole collection in the corner and gave up for a couple of years. Well here I sit with a pile of stuff that a collector would love to have if he could get it away from this guy that has no idea what he has. I have organized some but there are still bags of coins dating 2000 back into the 1600s. Good for me I quit the cleaning before I ruined the entire collection and the majority still has it&#039;s patina that you collectors love so much. I&#039;m sure I am just one in a million to make the mistakes I made but I&#039;m just glad I saw the light and the errors of my ways.</p><p>&nbsp;So now that you all know the history of my ending up here asking these dumb questions, if any of you are looking for some coins, sets, key dates, everything, etc. just fire me an email. There is no gold in the collection, but there is pounds of unsearched coins, lots of silver coins, uncirculated morgans and circulated morgans, etc. I am concidering ebay (although I hate that place) or other auctions as an outlet, If anyone is looking for a particular piece just ask and I&#039;ll check the mound and we can work something out.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Nice collecting all,</p><p>Mark[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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