Stand Watie
Jr. Member
I have some questions about coins and their value. I figured this would be as good as any other place on Treasure Net to ask them.
I'm real new to all of this but I can tell by reading here that some of you folks or pretty sharp on coins. I have some older coins. Boy do I have some coins.
I'm asking these questions for several reasons. One reason, is that I'm in the process of researching and purchasing my first metal detector. So I hope to be finding coins too.
The other reason, the main reason right now, is that my grandmother saved up coins over the years. She wasn't a collector and she didn't know anything about coin values, etc. She just started saving up random coins years and years ago. She's been deceased for a long time, but my mom said that grandma told her she started saving a few coins here and there when she was in her teens.
I have:
• Baby food jar not quite ½ full of half-dimes
• Coffee tin ½ full of silver half-dollars, plus a handful of Kennedy half-dollars
• 19 silver dollars
• A couple of medium sized (jelly) jars of Buffalo Nickels
• I also have an old decorative tin with almost 7 pounds of all Wheat pennies
• Some assorted other odd coins, half-cent coins, 3¢ coins, etc
My grandmother gave all of the coins she had, along with some 2-dollar bills, to my mom a year or so before she died. There was a 20 dollar gold piece but mom sold that in the early 1990s. Now that she's in her 80s she has given them to me. She recently told me to sell them if I wanted. I thought it would be nice to sell the valuable ones (if I have any) and either take mom on a nice trip while she is still able to get around fairly good. Or just sell all of them that I can sell and give the money to mom.
I'll keep a few of the really old or odd ones out of respect for my grandmother to hand down to my children and grandchildren. But the rest aren't doing any good just sitting in cans and jars. The money could be used by my mom for things she wants or needs.
But I don't want to get cheated by a pawn shop or some crooked coin dealer. So what is the best way to find out what they are worth? And what would be the best (and fastest) way to sale them?
I'm real new to all of this but I can tell by reading here that some of you folks or pretty sharp on coins. I have some older coins. Boy do I have some coins.
I'm asking these questions for several reasons. One reason, is that I'm in the process of researching and purchasing my first metal detector. So I hope to be finding coins too.
The other reason, the main reason right now, is that my grandmother saved up coins over the years. She wasn't a collector and she didn't know anything about coin values, etc. She just started saving up random coins years and years ago. She's been deceased for a long time, but my mom said that grandma told her she started saving a few coins here and there when she was in her teens.
I have:
• Baby food jar not quite ½ full of half-dimes
• Coffee tin ½ full of silver half-dollars, plus a handful of Kennedy half-dollars
• 19 silver dollars
• A couple of medium sized (jelly) jars of Buffalo Nickels
• I also have an old decorative tin with almost 7 pounds of all Wheat pennies
• Some assorted other odd coins, half-cent coins, 3¢ coins, etc
My grandmother gave all of the coins she had, along with some 2-dollar bills, to my mom a year or so before she died. There was a 20 dollar gold piece but mom sold that in the early 1990s. Now that she's in her 80s she has given them to me. She recently told me to sell them if I wanted. I thought it would be nice to sell the valuable ones (if I have any) and either take mom on a nice trip while she is still able to get around fairly good. Or just sell all of them that I can sell and give the money to mom.
I'll keep a few of the really old or odd ones out of respect for my grandmother to hand down to my children and grandchildren. But the rest aren't doing any good just sitting in cans and jars. The money could be used by my mom for things she wants or needs.
But I don't want to get cheated by a pawn shop or some crooked coin dealer. So what is the best way to find out what they are worth? And what would be the best (and fastest) way to sale them?
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