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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 52652, member: 112"]This story took place 4 or 5 years ago at a local shop. I only became involved after the fact. A friend of mine inherited a collection - he had no idea what it was worth so he took it to a coin shop. The delaer there looked through briefly and told him it was too large - that he would have to leave it so they could go through it properly. He did. A couple days later he went back. The dealer offered him face value for the entire collection - $6700. Now realize - there were less than 20 dollar coins in the whole thing. It takes A LOT of quarters, halves, nickels, dimes and cents to make $6700. My friend said no thanks. A few days later he calls me and tells me this story. I told him to bring the coins to me. He does. But when he arrives I was flabbergasted. And he only brought half of it. There were two large tubs full of coins that took the both of us to lift each. So for the next 6 months I cataloged this collection - or most of the better stuff anyway. I never even got to all the loose coins - there were thousands. But just with the better stuff the value total was over $80,000. So it's not just kids they will try to take advantage of.[/QUOTE]