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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 3605, member: 112&quot;]Georgia - Welcome to the Forum !!</p><p><br /></p><p>You are faced with a problem that many have due to the loss of a loved one, my condolences. It sounds as if you are starting of on the right foot though. While cataloging the coins is a chore in itself, grading may be your biggest obstacle for it takes a good bit of knowledge and a whole lot of experience to to properly grade coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>With that said I would ask what you intend to do with the collection - do you wish to sell it or are you just organizing it with the intent of keeping it ? This matters because it makes a difference in how you should treat the still sealed boxes from the Mint.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you decide to keep the collection then opening or keeping the boxes sealed makes little difference. But if you plan to sell it may. When selling sealed shipments from the Mint you first of all need to know what is inside the boxes. This can usually be determined by the type of packaging and its size, the date of the postmark and the sender be that the Mint or the Assay Office. By far the easiest way would be if you could post pics of the boxes or ebvelopes so that those here could help identify them. If this is not possible then a detailed description including the items I mentioned above would certainly help.</p><p><br /></p><p>In todays market if you can reasonably identify the contents of a sealed Mint shipment and palce it up for aution on ebay there are many who will pay a premium for the item. This is because they are willing to gamble if you will that the contents will contain a gem example of a coin. This can be a double edged sword though for the seller. For while you as the seller may get a bit of a premium for selling the box sealed you may pass up a substantial premium if it does indeed contain a genuine gem item. </p><p><br /></p><p>For example Proof sets - depending on the year of course if a Proof set contains Cameo or Deep Cameo coins they could be worth a great deal. The same can be said of Mint sets if they contain particularly well struck examples or nicely toned examples. Now again depending on the year the odds are against this being the case - but you never know. So you see the dilemma at hand.</p><p><br /></p><p>By all means though - feel free to ask as many questions as you like. And do not be in too big a hurry to get this over with. As for the coins in the set folders, some of them, depending on condition, could be worth a good deal. Then again they may not be worth much at all. The Red Book is a good beginning source for you to at least have an idea if this may be the case. But if you wish to provide a detailed list of the coins and especially if you can provide pics - I am quite sure that you can obtain many answers to these questions here in the Forum.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hope this helps.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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