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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;USS656, post: 1078651, member: 6641&quot;]Hi Joe,</p><p><br /></p><p>Chris&#039;s advice on the gun safe is very important!&nbsp; You may also want to pick up a pair of cotton gloves (craft or hardware store probably has some cheap). Reduces the chance for finger prints on a surface that might not have had one prior to you handling it.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would start a spread sheet in excel by type and list date/mint mark.&nbsp; Maybe a different worksheet for each type of coin.&nbsp; If your wife helps it can go really fast.&nbsp; It&#039;s an important 1st step to later looking for key dates &amp; mm.&nbsp; Don&#039;t worry about grading yet.&nbsp; Then use the red book to identify dates/mm that are more valuable.&nbsp; Once you separate these, then I would really start asking questions about grades and value.&nbsp; Pictures will be critical at that point.&nbsp; The red book doesn&#039;t do a great job about identifying varieties or errors that might also have significant value so do not assume because the date looks common that you have a coin only worth melt.&nbsp; The members here can help with that but that&#039;s when you should start sharing of the list information.&nbsp; I would save that for after you identify the key dates. </p><p><br /></p><p>BTW - members on any board (especially that have been here any amount of time) are likely to question the authenticity of stories like this without a picture that shows at least some portion of the collection.&nbsp; People sometimes come around and tell wild stories that later turn out to be false.&nbsp; Unfortunately other collectors and dealers on the forum have spent time to give good advise only to find out it was a waste because someone thought it would be funny to get people here worked up about a found or inherited hoard.&nbsp; Just a piece of advice, you may get more help from experienced collectors/dealers if you post 1 picture of some portion of the collection.&nbsp; As time goes on if there are no pictures people (generally the less experienced or more skeptical collectors) tend to start claiming the collection doesn&#039;t exist. Weather it does or not and that tends to get the original poster to move on or disappear.&nbsp; Handel it the way you feel comfortable but a photo will end any really distracting posts.</p><p><br /></p><p>Good Luck and Best Regards ~ Darryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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