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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;misiek87, post: 1003411, member: 27079&quot;]To make a long story very short I just got back from a 3.5 hour drive&nbsp; after finding out about a sale of a left-behind box of paper currency&nbsp; and a little bit of coins. I won&#039;t get into details but I am Canadian&nbsp; and this required a drive to US. There was one picture included and I&nbsp; saw a little box of coins, some appeared in holders,sleeves, etc., an&nbsp; open album, quite bit, of paper currency and about 60-100 individual&nbsp; notes in sleeves, well documented.</p><p>Now I am no expert on anything, I started in 2007 with Wheat cents while in college.</p><p><br /></p><p>The story behind this goes like this. The seller bought some property&nbsp; from a paper currency and coin dealer for dirt cheap with the intention&nbsp; of renovation the house. It has a river behind for a boat, a nice&nbsp; entrance but no electricity and no water. The seller found the box or&nbsp; was told about it, I think he probably found it though for reason I&#039;ll&nbsp; explain later. He has absolutely no interest in the stuff other than&nbsp; checking if they sell on Ebay for the prices that they have written on&nbsp; them. Being a dealer, everything is well organized. The seller said the&nbsp; guy appeared smart but did seem &quot;all there&quot;. We chitchatted, and as some&nbsp; of you know from my post yesterday started talking about the notes that&nbsp; have the word &quot;copies&quot; written on the description. Turns out, the&nbsp; dealer had some notes plainly printed off the internet...very strange&nbsp; but there were only 3 of them. The other ones turned out to have&nbsp; duplicates with the exception of two notes from Portugal. I don&#039;t get it&nbsp; but it doesn&#039;t give me a good feeling. Those notes are very old looking&nbsp; though and seem real to the faint touch. All in all, only about 6-7&nbsp; have the word copy (actual printed ones) or copies (duplicates&nbsp; included). </p><p><br /></p><p>I have not yet counted all the paper currency because there is around&nbsp; 300 of them, I would say 200 in the binder (As you can see from the&nbsp; photos, they are well taken care of-I think, again I am no expert like&nbsp; most of you guys) and about 100 individual sleeves sometimes containing&nbsp; more then 1 of the same bill. They are from absolutely every country you&nbsp; can think of; Bulgaria,Russia,Oceana,Austria,Australia,England,Lots of&nbsp; S.American countries, Bahamas, Fiji, China,Japan,&nbsp; France,Germany,Netherland (Indies and normal) and so on....I don&#039;t think&nbsp; he has any US currency though other than a $1 bill signed by Ivory&nbsp; Baker, Priest in 1955 (Why? I have no idea what the significance of that&nbsp; is). </p><p><br /></p><p>Dates range from 1920&#039;s-1970&#039;s with a few from 1990&#039;s and 80&#039;s and again&nbsp; a few of them from 1890&#039;s and one note from 1847. Conditions vary, so&nbsp; do prices written on them. Most expensive one has $125 on the&nbsp; description, least I think $.50 </p><p><br /></p><p>Now, any comments are GREATLY appreciated, any help with regards to how to improve preservation methods, values, and so on.</p><p><br /></p><p>Let&#039;s get to the intriguing part - coins.</p><p>Initially in the original picture you could not tell what they were&nbsp; other than what he told me that there were a few of them, lots of people&nbsp; called for coins but he told them he only has a few and has no idea&nbsp; what they are. They were in plastic sleeves, some of them, so I figure&nbsp; they could not be complete garbage. He sent me more pictures in the&nbsp; email and still I could not tell until I got there. </p><p><br /></p><p>5 of them seem to be vacuum-sealed with foil and in plastic holders.&nbsp; Three are 1/2 cents from 1804 and two appear to be a Quarter-eagle 1847 O&nbsp; and an Eagle 1847......</p><p>I compared them to pictures from the Blue Book and Im getting a bad feeling...</p><p><br /></p><p>I almost fainted when I got home and saw that because I missed it&nbsp; originally. Other coins seem to be 1564 England Schilling, 1662 Austrian&nbsp; Tyrol, 1780 Marie Theresa Thaler in probably AU-50, 1944 Half Dollar&nbsp; (AG3 at most since 19 is missing but 44 is there) some wheat pennies,&nbsp; some old francs, a bag of 1941 US dimes, and these mysterious coins&nbsp; labeled Mexican Jalisco 1/16,1/4 1860 etc. They look like they were run&nbsp; over by a tank...</p><p><br /></p><p>Again, please comment on anything you&#039;ve read and seen, especially the two supposedly gold coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now back to the 1/4 Eagle and the Eagle. Both 1847. Look at the pictures&nbsp; and tell me what to do...they seem very light which worries me. The&nbsp; Quarter Eagle has a crack in the foil, and I can barely see a coin&nbsp; inside....but I am worried these are replicas. What should I do?</p><p>Since I could only upload 5 pictures, I decided to host them on Flicker, here is the link:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/54370001@N08/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/54370001@N08/" rel="nofollow">http://www.flickr.com/photos/54370001@N08/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Attached photos are only the max allowed here, the rest with better angles are on Flicker.</p><p><br /></p><p>Please,please any info regarding any of this is very valuable to me!</p><p>If any part of my post is against the rules, please&nbsp; let me know.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am really woried that none of this is real, just a gut feeling. Man I&#039;ll&nbsp; be losing sleep over this for sure!</p><p><span style="color: red"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: red"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: red"><b>&nbsp;Oh by the way I paid $80 for this.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: red"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: red"><b>EDIT: $1 Bill signed by Ivy Baker Priest not Ivory Baker, a priest</b></span></p><p><span style="color: red"><b></b></span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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