Inherited 1500 Coins! 1shillings & Half Pennies And More! Help

Hi larcher89 and to the Forum!

What you've got looks mostly like common pre-decimal and obsolete coins, which aren't of much value. However, there could well be some more interesting items amongst them - for instance, pennies dated 1950 and 1951 and any 'silver' coins dated before 1947 are worth many times their face value!

For decimal coins like the Half New Penny that are no longer legal tender, you can find details here:
https://www.checkyourchange.co.uk/
For pre-decimal coins, you can try Numista. Here, for example, is the page on Elizabeth II old pennies:
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces858.html
There is a reasonably cheap catalogue called 'Coin Year Book' that is sold by larger bookshops including WH Smith, and you can also check ebay for recent sales. Look at the 'sold' prices rather than what sellers are listing their coins for.
Please don't try to clean any coins, and handle them carefully by the edges (especially if they are in nice condition). And feel free to post photos of any coins on the Forum and we can give an opinion - preferably one coin per query!

I'm afraid that most circulated pre-decimal halfpennies and shillings dated between 1947-1966 are the sort of coins my local dealer tosses into his 'junk box' of coins for sale for 10p each...

If you find a 1933 penny I'll give you a fiver for it.

Nice say goodbye to the next few days armed with a magnifying glass, eyeglass & microscope, could be a couple of little surprises in there. If you get bored Ill gladly take them HA and following Saxons post I could go up to £10 if you find a 1933 Penny PMSL.

Interesting find, though would be a shame for these to go to a scrap metal merchant when someone clearly put an awful lot of time into assembling it. Would urge you not to have them scrapped, though I do tend to get sentimental about these things.

Filmstar almost got it right. A weekend, magnifying glass and digital microscope for sure. You also need the weekend to be cold, a fireplace crackling and a bottle or two of Merlot.
Hopefully there'll be some key dates there. Unfortunately the older pennies look FG but I reckon you'd be able to pick a good sample of each year that's present. I would sell the leftovers as bulk pennies, halfpennies etc. In Australia punters always bid above scrap value for bulk old pennies and ha'pennies. Good luck.
Oh, add a single malt for evening numismatic work!