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| Please Help Selling Dad's Coins
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Windmiller
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United States
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 Posted 12/01/2022 10:35 am
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| Ebay will quickly show you what junk silver coins are selling for. You can also sell silver on the Reddit forum r/pmsforsale. I see junk silver coins selling for around 20X face value. For example two 90% Kennedy Halfs for $20. Spend some time looking at completed sales. It's fine to sell for a discount for a quick sale, but it's better to do that knowingly. |
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| Murder For Hoarded Gold Cuyuga County NY - 1905
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Windmiller
Valued Member
United States
52 Posts |
Posted 11/30/2022 4:04 pm
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Interesting historical story of unsolved murder for hoarded wealth in NY. Discovered doing genealogical research. Follow the link at bottom. Some interesting mentions of bank failures in the article as well.
Here's the backstory.
The murdered man (Robert Kidney) was my great great uncle. Robert in turn was the great grandson of John Kidney who immigrated from St John's Parish Barbados and who married a dutch woman in Albany NY in 1698. So the Kidney's have been in NY since British colonial days. Records show John in turn was the great grandson of Walter Kidney born in Great Britain and who ran afoul of the English judicial system and departed the port of Bristol in 1658 to serve 6 years as an indentured servant in the colony at Virginia. John wound up actually going to the colony in the West Indies instead. Apparently he did alright and lived in Barbados the rest of his life. His will is recorded in Barbados and he left property to his son and grandsons. In fact, I'd say whatever John did to earn six years indentured servitude was probably a stroke of good luck. In any case, he fared better than his descendant Robert who met an unhappy end many years later as explained here.
Hope you enjoy the story, Windmiller.
https://www.syracuse.com/living/202...h-an-ax.html |
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| So, You Inherited A Bunch Of Foreign Gold
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Windmiller
Valued Member
United States
52 Posts |
Posted 11/28/2022 12:09 am
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| Reddit subforums r/gold and r/pmsforsale are active places for the precious metals community. You can sell much better than spot. There are zero fees on Reddit and a trader feedback rating system as well as trusted middleman available. If nothing else you'll get a feel for the market via die hard stackers. It's an active place. Mexican gold has a strong following. Stack on. |
| | Forum: World Coins and Commemoratives |
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| Massive Coin Stash. Need Advice.
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Windmiller
Valued Member
United States
52 Posts |
Posted 11/27/2022 9:20 pm
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| Welcome to the forum! You've gotten great advice. I just went through this on a smaller scale. You will need a magnifier, good light, and space to sort and leave your work. I'd probably get some tubes and start tubing up your circulated silver and plastic coin flips for coins that look exceptionally nice that you want to stay that way. Sorting is one thing, but you need to keep your work sorted and safe so you can eventually move it on. Selling the sorted coins will be a whole project onto itself. Good luck! |
| | Forum: US Modern Coins |
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| Finally Sorted The Box
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Windmiller
Valued Member
United States
52 Posts |
Posted 11/27/2022 8:56 pm
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| I'll post the encased quarter as my first coin photo attempt. I read the 101 on coin photos and purchased the light ring gizmo from Amazon. There is an encased lucky penny from a car dealership as well. Also a charm dated 1830 from a catholic sisterhood. All kinds of odds and ends among projectile points picked up from the farm (one Clovis point), abalone cuff links, civil war pins, metal detector finds, etc. |
| | Forum: US Classic and Colonial Variety and Error Coins |
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