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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cheryl Heuton, post: 2746177, member: 87645&quot;]Hello! What a great site. I&#039;ve already learned a lot just reading this thread.</p><p>My aging mother put me in charge of figuring out the value of her father&#039;s coin collection. I found out right away that it&#039;s not really a collection -- it&#039;s more of an accumulation. Coins were mostly in rolls. Many were in shoe boxes. </p><p><br /></p><p>Lots of silver dated from around 1880 to 1965. After a preliminary check, it seems as though most of the coins are fairly common. There are a handful of exceptions, including some 1932s quarters and a few others that are worth somewhat more than the metal in them. The collection does include some lovely Morgan and Peace dollars in decent shape.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are pennies, nickels, half dollars, even some currency. Plus a bunch of foreign coins and foreign currency.</p><p><br /></p><p>My mother remembers her parents telling her that they&#039;d had the collection valued by a professional in the early 1980s, and that the total value was about $1,700, but that &quot;most of that was due to one coin.&quot; I have not found any coin that comes close to anything like that. I wonder if they either sold it or gave it away at some point, or they were mistaken.</p><p><br /></p><p>I really appreciate the referral to Kevin Flynn&#039;s book &quot;Appraising Your Coin Collection.&quot; After a quick look at it, I realized I need to get a stronger loupe and check for some of the special things that could make some coins more interesting.</p><p><br /></p><p>As I catalogue these coins -- what&#039;s the best way to organize and store them? Any advice welcome. </p><p><br /></p><p>At some point, I&#039;ll probably need a referral to a reputable coin dealer in the Los Angeles area.&nbsp;&nbsp; But I might reimburse my mother for the value of some of them and start my own collection. I can see how coins can become fascinating fun. They&#039;re beautiful.</p><p><br /></p><p>Going through them makes me feel closer to my grandfather. The only coins he had stored in a traditional collecting format are pennies he put into Dansco albums. There are three, an Indian Penny album, a Lincoln Penny album 1909-1929, and a Lincoln Penny Album from 1930. He didn&#039;t finish any of them. I might try to finish them in his memory. Or at least try.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks for all the great information.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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