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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cloudsweeper99, post: 406659, member: 3011&quot;]It sounds like you have a mix of old and new coins.&nbsp; Find a way to separate them in some way, maybe by decade and type.&nbsp; For the change your wife saved, if you want to save time just check for silver coins, wheat cents, silver nickels from the World War II years, and anything with an S mintmark.&nbsp; The rest might not be worth your time unless you are really happy deep diving into them.&nbsp; Some of the older coins might be fairly valuable even if somewhat worn or scratched because of their scarcity or silver value.&nbsp; I like Photograde as a first book about grading coins because it&#039;s easy to use -- but only covers circulated coins.&nbsp; You can compare the photos to your coins fairly easily to get a pretty good idea of the grade.&nbsp; If you plan to sell any of the coins to a coin shop, sell only a few at a time and start with the most recent [which are likely to be the least valuable].&nbsp; This will give you some experience about what things are worth.&nbsp; If you plan to keep all of them, you might want to sort them into date/mintmark collections.&nbsp; There are endless possibilities depending on how much time you want to spend on them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just remember the most important thing -- have fun.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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