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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;elbows356, post: 1459383, member: 38517&quot;]I guess this is the proper place to put this?&nbsp; I&#039;m visiting my grandmother and while I was in the middle of setting up my media player on her television, we moved a dresser to reach an outlet.&nbsp; Underneath the dresser were a couple of cookie tins.&nbsp; I thought nothing of it, just some old lady grandma stuff inside them probably.&nbsp; Trinkets and the like.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Well, she immediately pulled them out and said &quot;I want you to have these, I&#039;ve had them for so long I&#039;m tired of hiding them&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Inside the two cookie tins were thousands of old silver dimes, quarters, and half dollars. I did my due diligence in researching the best I could, and I went through each and every one of those coins to make sure there weren&#039;t any rare or unique coins (there weren&#039;t, really, based on some makeshift price guides online), and determined that their best value was in the 90% silver they were made out of.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Well, like I said I went through each and every coin.&nbsp; Some were in good condition, others were in terrible condition (especially the older ones).&nbsp; But none o them were of a rare mint so I wasn&#039;t too concerned with that, I was only concerned, after a while, with how many I had and how much they would be worth heir weight in silver.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Based on two different equations I found online (and I tried both and came out to similar results, give or take a couple bucks), the total value in silver for ALL the coins, based on the equations given, is $11,012, give or take.&nbsp; This made me and my family pretty excited.&nbsp; We have 341 half dollars, 1,289 quarters, and 429 dimes, all ranging between the 1920&#039;s and 1964 (one dime at 1917, but it&#039;s in terrible shape).</p><p><br /></p><p>So we&#039;re trying to find out how much we can get for it.&nbsp; We obviously don&#039;t think we can get full value, that would be foolish to assume, but we&#039;re trying to figure out what the best course of action is to get rid of them.&nbsp; We&#039;ve been reading that coin dealers, even if they give good deals, won&#039;t do any deals larger than a grand or so in purchases.&nbsp; We&#039;re currently trying to look up smelters but we&#039;re not sure where ot even begin with that.&nbsp; My brother thinks we should hit up Ebay, but I wouldn&#039;t know where to begin on how to list this whole thing.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>As far as I know none of the coins are rare or valuable on their own.&nbsp; I checked Coin Study and Coinflation and looked at their list of valuable coins in the versions we have, and didn&#039;t find any of them to be of significant value, and the ones that did meet certain criteria were in terrible shape or were only worth maybe a few bucks more than their silver price.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Sooooooooo, I&#039;m clueless.&nbsp; I&#039;m sitting on (I assume) $10,000+ in silver within these coins, and I have no clue how to get max value for it.&nbsp; I NEED HELP!!!!!!</p><p><br /></p><p>P.S. Just for a fun story, I asked my grandmother how she had all these.&nbsp; She is a hair stylist/barber and she said back when she was in her 20&#039;s and 30&#039;s she used to cut hair in a shop that sat above a bank and the clients would tip her in these quarters and halves and dimes and what not (this was back in the 50&#039;s/60&#039;s), and instead of spending them she just tucked them aside.&nbsp; She&#039;s been sitting on them for almost 60 years now.</p><p><br /></p><p>On top of these silver coins, she also had $275 (face value) in common day half dollar coins and $150+ in common day quarters.&nbsp; And 65 of those gold Sacagewea dollars, which I researched and found them to be worth nothing more than face value (right?)</p><p><br /></p><p>But yeah, HELP PLEASE!!!&nbsp; What should my first course of action be?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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