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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DavidF NYC, post: 905195, member: 22856&quot;]As someone who just loves looking through hoards of coins I would&nbsp; welcome the opportunity to go through those buckets.&nbsp; It&#039;s just like&nbsp; treasure hunting, even if you don&#039;t find the gold enjoy the experience,&nbsp; but I&#039;d bet you&#039;re going to find at least one &quot;Key Date,&quot; if not more.&nbsp; You just might find it pleasurable as well as more profitable to figure&nbsp; out what you really have before you try to sell.&nbsp; A lot of us here got&nbsp; bitten by the coin bug going that route.</p><p><br /></p><p>Chris gave you a good head start as far as sorting the coins out and&nbsp; finding generic values for denominations. The Red Book is a price guide,&nbsp; and has good grading advice for each coin, but you might also benefit&nbsp; by getting Photograde by James Ruddy which has pictures of every US coin&nbsp; in all circulation grades.&nbsp; I don&#039;t think you&#039;ll be finding any&nbsp; uncirculated coins in those buckets. </p><p><br /></p><p>If you&#039;re really ambitious, I also recommend getting The Cherrypicker&#039;s&nbsp; Guide to Rare Die Varieties,&nbsp; Volumes 1 &amp; 2,&nbsp; Bill Franz and J.T.&nbsp; Stanton, and a magnification loop.&nbsp; They&#039;re are also bound to be some&nbsp; Varities in there so learning about Die Varieties, Double Dies,&nbsp; Repunched Mint Marks, Overpunched Mint Marks, Die Rotations not to&nbsp; mention die-cracks, cuds, clipped planchets could add to both the profit&nbsp; you make and the pleasure you get from searching these lots.</p><p><br /></p><p>Good luck and be patient, It sound to me like you have a few months&nbsp; worth of sorting and searching, or both fun &amp; profit.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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