A dear friend, having been kept from traveling to his recently deceased father's bank because of the closing of the US/Canada border, finally got to get into Canada (even though he is a Canadian citizen). Upon opening the father's safe deposit box discovered that his father was a coin collector, this being previously unknown about him. He asked me to look at his father's coins to "see if they were worth anything". What do you guys think?
Beautiful gold the top is around $1,000 the bottom $400-$500 and I believe all the others are silver Olympic commemoratives.
Do NOT believe the prices from Coins and Canada. You can pick any of them up for just a little over scrap silver price or a little over $20 Cdn for the 5 dollar coins and 40 Cdn for the 10 dollar ones. But your friend will always have something to hold in his hand that his father treasured.
Very nice coins. Canadian coins are beautiful, I love collecting them. Hopefully he will keep some of them to remember him by. Also, I agree with @Bill in Burl Coins and Canada is not very accurate.
I got one of the $5 coins for face value when I was a kid. It is worth whatever melt is on it 45 years later
The bighorn sheep gold coin has $900 US in gold at today’s prices. It contains 1/2 Troy ounce of pure gold.
