Inheriting Small Collection...again...

Well it seems like my family ( wife's side included ) is dropping like flies this year!

Yesterday we said goodbye to my wife's grandmother ( mother's side ) and laid her to rest beside her husband.

Once the funeral was over, my mother-in-law approached me during the little after-meeting when they serve those little sandwiches.
She told me that she had been going through her mom's things and found an old cigarette case ( made of sterling silver ) that was full of old coins.
Turns out her father had served in WW2 and collected various coins and bills while he was overseas.

She couldn't think of any blood relatives who collected coins and decided that instead of selling them, she would be giving them to me later this week at the Winnipeg Folk Fest t-shirt meeting ( I'm a supervisor for the festival ).

-note- she believes one of the coins is gold but isn't sure. She also mentioned there was an old british coin that was the only coin that was wrapped in plastic..she said she didn't take it out of the plastic but was able to see it was from the 1800's

--edit-- I will be posting pictures once I acquire the coins as I'm sure I will have no idea what half of them are since I mainly collect Canadian coins and most of them are european