I Am Looking For Your Advice Please!

I think it was only meant for you to put up a list so that other members can value the coins for you and let you know if you have any really valuable items in the collection. The 50 post restriction would apply only if you wanted to sell the coins via the forum. As far as I am aware, seeking valuations is not advertising.

If I'm incorrect in my interpretation of the rules, no doubt a moderator will soon chime in and let us all know.

If I had inherited a collection of the size you indicated, and I didn't want to keep it, I'd be inclined to take it to a well known Auction house and get them to auction it.

Don't be in too much of a hurry to sell unless your Mother really wants to do so. By the time you finish the catalogue, you might be too attached to sell the collection.

Thank you everyone.

Box 1 - I have only put the Australian Coins on this list, I have made separate spreadsheets for other countries including New Zealand.

I hope I have provided enough information, I must say its all very interesting.


Australia Coin 200 Dollars 1982 Uncirculated 1 XII Commonwealth Games Brisbane
Australia Coin 5 Dollars 1988 Mint Proof 2 New Parliament House
Australia Coin 50 Cents 1977 Uncirculated 1 Jubilee 50 Cents
Australia Coin 50 Cents 1981 Uncirculated 1 Royal Wedding
Australia Coin 50 Cents 1982 Uncirculated 1 XII Commonwealth Games Brisbane
Australia Coin 50 Cents Various x 6 Uncirculated 1 Australian 50 Cent Collection
Australia C/Note One Dollar 1984 Uncirculated 1 Last $1 Note/1st $1 Coin
Australia Coin Five Dollars 1988 Uncirculated 1 New Parliament House
Australia Coin One Dollar 1984 Uncirculated 14
Australia Coin set 1982 Proof Mint Set 1
Australia Coin Set 1983 Uncirculated 9
Australia Coin set 1983 Proof Mint Set 1
Australia Coin set 1984 Proof Mint Set 1
Australia Coin set 1985 Uncirculated 1
Australia Coin set 1986 Proof Mint Set 3
Australia Coin set 1987 Proof Mint Set 4

There appears to be no order in the storage of the coins, I guess when both my Grandparents and my Dad passed away they were just stuck in boxes without thought of what was to be done with them in the future. I found loose pre-decimal coins in this box.

Thank you.

Regards,
Nomes.

Some coins in 85,86,87 where only available in the mint/proof sets which makes them rarer.
What's in the other boxes?

I wasn't able to buy the book locally so I will have to go to the city on the weekend.

I am currently listing all the overseas coins at present, seems gran and gramps liked Charles and Diana a lot, lol. A few from each country I am finding.

I do appreciate all your suggestions, thanks.

Cheers,
Nomes.

Hi Nomes,
It's true that the best way before selling those coins is for you to take the gargantuan task of learning it and knowing its actual values thru books and thru other advises. We are lucky to have this forum, a lot of members here are willing to help, because it's a passion for most of us in trying to share and learn more about our hobby.
Come to think of what your Dad left, I guess that after knowing all the values of each piece, and you have the capability to return that amount to your Mom - then pls, do it. Just think that instead of putting some of your money in the bank, imagine it to give the money to your Mom instead - in return you are the one buying the collection instead of others... Then I think, you are not just helping your Mom, but you are also saving the legacy which your Dad shared to you and later on passed on to your childred...its just my Half Cent opinion though

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.