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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;JeffsRealm, post: 2502950, member: 81515&quot;]Thanks everyone for so much information, warm welcome and condolences. This is fantastic. It will take me some time to dig in. I will be posting more as I start digging. I am imagining this can get kind of addictive to sit down with old coins sip an old scotch, imagine the history of where the coin has been.</p><p><br /></p><p>Oh and yes they were ceramic steins. I have learned a lot about antique steins as well. I did go out and buy some disposable Tupperware containers last night and put the coins in there. I ordered some coin tubes so I can get started. I will probably order 2x2 as suggested as well once I start seeing what all I have. I would really like a nice display of the best ones. </p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks again everyone.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>You know, your question is interesting. It comes up a lot in my process I have gone through with her passing. I also have a thought on this as one thing I have come to learn when my mom passed. If you look at her age it was 87, which is a little over the age but pretty much the average age of people passing away right now. People of this age grew up WW2 and post depression era. They tended to save everything. </p><p><br /></p><p>I have a lot of friends who&#039;s parents recently passed or are elderly to where they are getting close. Many of them are like my mother or the situation their parents estates are like my mothers. These people are passing away with the homes they lived in the last 30,40,50 years. They know from the past to save things. They also do not spend frivolously. My mom was not a hoarder, you could walk into my childhood home and it was nice and clean, no clutter. However as we are cleaning the home out. There was stuff squirreled away everywhere. Every closet, the attic, under beds, the sheer amount of stuff was everywhere. She kept everything from all of our childhoods simply because she believe it may all be worth money some day. I had all my original GI Joe&#039;s. The 6 million dollar man action figure complete with space capsule. Old peanuts and charlie brown books from the 50&#039;s. Even found an issue of Mad Comic #1, before it was mad magazine. Not in the best of condition but there it was. I had long forgotten I used to collect old Creepy magazine as well. Almost all of them were there as well.</p><p><br /></p><p>I look around today and most kids and young adults today we live in a disposable society, myself included. I have long thrown out my old cassette tape player, and cassettes, my CD players and most of my CD&#039;s. I have now gone completely digital in my music. Mom still had my original record player with all my records.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>So my guess in what your seeing, is a lot of estates from people who were from a different era. Those that saved their coins for rain days or simply put some coins away in a drawer somewhere and where long forgotten as children turned into Grand Children and Grand Children turned into Great Grand Children. Friends of mine that have gone through this and those that are bracing themselves to go through this are all sharing similar stories of finding these houses filled with old treasures and in some cases junk, it depends on your point of view. My mom had a ton of antique quilts and doilies perfume bottle and old things like that. All of which made my sisters swoon, but didn&#039;t interest me in any way.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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