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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;beef1020, post: 879377, member: 24544&quot;]So my great grandmother collected coins which have been passed down to my grandmother, and then last year to my mother and her 5 siblings.&nbsp; When my grandmother died they split the collection 6 ways.&nbsp; My uncle was the executor of the will and has zero knowledge of coins.&nbsp; So to split the collection they went round robin picking coins, my guess is on the order of 400 coins split between 6 people with zero knowledge of coins.&nbsp; Apparently they fought over who would get the best quality steel war pennies <font face="Wingdings">:headbang:</font> </p><p>&nbsp; So this weekend, I went over to my mom’s to check out her share of the collection.&nbsp; The vast majority of the coins are 20 century silver coins worth their silver value with a couple odds and ends, some large cents, III cent, Indian head, flying eagle type stuff.&nbsp; In looking through the 4 Indian head pennies she selected in the inheritance lottery she got a 1877!!!&nbsp; I am amazed, and am dying to know what the rest of my aunts and uncles have, because none of them know anything about coins.</p><p>&nbsp; The kicker is, when my mom got the collection she took them to a local coin store to get appraised.&nbsp; The store basically said they were worth the silver value, which they low balled, but when it came to the non-silver coins the prices they offered were practically criminal.&nbsp; I think it was $3 for the 1857 flying eagle, and get this, $7 for the 1877 indian head!!!&nbsp; So I am totally freaked out about my aunts and uncles taking this collection to a dealer and getting ripped off.&nbsp; Thankfully my mom had no interest in selling the coins, she just wanted to get an idea of their value.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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