I Am Looking For Your Advice Please!

Thank you all for your wonderful advice, I am amazed at the quantity and variety of coins, today I found a 1979 22ct proof 100 tala from Western Samoa.

Mum said that she now finds it hard to believe they spent so much on coins and never had a holiday together.

I now see that they collected the coins, buying 6 proof sets, one each for us 4 children and 2 for them.

At the moment I will continue to catalogue and research them I would love to share the excitement of it all with you. Not in a gloating way but I feel you could be genuinely interested in them.

Mum did confess today that Dad did own "The One" 1930 penny, dad told her to sell it after he died and take herself on a holiday, which she did. Mum also said she has some Queen Victoria coins in one of those boxes, "look and you shall find" she said.

I am really enjoying looking into the loose pre decimal coins that grandpa had collected.

I keep getting a headache thinking of the task ahead, maybe its too much time on the computer.

LOL I'm rambling now.

Take care and thank you again.

Nomes.

As you can see from the replies, you have a lot of interested Internet friends willing to help you, Along with all of them, I would rather be hoping that you may be able to keep them, and so have the start of a lifelong interest and hobby, I have been interested in coin collecting for over 50 years, and I am still a fair number of years from 70. I still have that boyhood need to learn, and still have that fascination from the coins I collect. Maybe that you may well be interested in the coins that you already have, or maybe it is that may have to sell them. However, I note that you now have some coin book(s), Keep those because they are the tools of the trade. I NEVER sell my books.

Perhaps, after you sell the coins you have, may be your interests may lie in the coins Australia used to have. I have a great interest in British coins that used to circulate in Australia before 1910. The Sterling Silver Money Act was passed in the British Parliament in 1825, which made British coins the only form of currency to be legally recognised in Australia, and from that date, large amounts of newly made coins were shipped to Australia to serve our needs. British coins circulated freely in Australia until about 1920, when the bullion price of silver skyrocketed. By that time Australia had her own coinage, and British coins were repatriated back to Great Britain.

British coins generally in that period are relatively cheap, and there are over 100 main types of coins in copper bronze silver and gold. You can try to get all of the types, or specialise in one particular area, and still manage to build en extensive collection over a number of years, Incidentally I have been collecting ancients for over 40 years.