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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Old Texas Reb, post: 3021965, member: 91220&quot;]As a long time full &amp; part time dealer, I&#039;ve appraised quite a few US &amp; world collections, either for purchase, on a hourly rate or as a favor for people.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sometimes, though, it can be difficult to deliver the bad news to an owner.&nbsp; I&#039;m doing one right now for one of my wife&#039;s friends at church.&nbsp; She is over 80 and the US coins (more of an accumulation than anything) belonged to her husband who passed away in 1994.&nbsp; She brought 4 large boxes over to the house and the better stuff is in a safe deposit box.&nbsp; According to her, her husband told her the group was worth about 15K.</p><p><br /></p><p>Am almost through with box 1 and it&#039;s not looking good.&nbsp; Lots of stuff in Whitman album collections, 1970&#039;s and 1980&#039;s mint sets, proof sets, etc.&nbsp; Condition is almost always average circulated with no keys spotted as yet.&nbsp; This bunch is supposed to be worth several thousand $ but looking forward I don&#039;t expect a result even close to this.&nbsp; So far, all that&#039;s bailed her out is the silver coins with good melt value.</p><p><br /></p><p>Luckily, she plans on leaving most of this to her daughter and not depend on the proceeds.&nbsp; It&#039;s really hard to have to burst someone&#039;s bubble and tell her the truth about the actual value.&nbsp; She has a list of the safe deposit box contents but after looking it over I&#039;ll be the bottom line will be no more than $5,000 at best.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve had to do this before but that doesn&#039;t make the task any easier![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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