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Encourager New Member United States 3 Posts	Posted 10/30/2007 8:42 pm Hi. We are new, as of today, to this site. This evening, my husband went to get me some coin envelopes and he discovered a disaster. At some time in the last year, water had dripped into our fire safe (yeah, so how safe were the contents from fire?) and we had a major mildew/mold invasion. We lost a lot of old paper money from all over the world. Even the coins were corroded. We spent the evening trying to salvage what we could. We cleaned a copper disk and were amazed. It turned out to be a 1771 skilling. It is very worn and no longer round, but you can read the date and see the image. Most of this collected paper money and coins came from various relatives over many, many years and my husband has tucked it away since he was a small child. We have quite a bit of German coins, pre WWII. We are so new to this, we don't know where to go to find out what these coins are worth. Of course, we want some reputable. Any suggestions would be welcome. We are in Michigan, near Detroit or Lansing. Thanks in advance for your help. Report this Post to the Staff

GO Moderator United States 6563 Posts	Posted 10/30/2007 11:40 pm Well you already found what you are looking for here. All we need are some good quality pictures and we can give you a quick estimate of an items value. Here you will get multiple opinions...mostly all around the same ballpark. It's possible you might not have a good experience at a coin shop but every one is different. If you were looking to sell the coins ebay is a good source depending on the coins. Welcome to the Forum! Report this Post to the Staff
gxseries Pillar of the Community Australia 3831 Posts	Posted 10/31/2007 05:24 am That sucks really. Normally you would want to put some silica gel so that moisture wouldn't build up but it's too late for that. The best is to salvage what you got there although I don't know what to say. Sorry to hear the bad news and welcome to coincommunity My partial coin collection http://www.omnicoin.com/collection/gxseries My numismatics articles and collection: http://www.gxseries.com/numis/numis_index.htm Regularly updated at least once a month. Report this Post to the Staff
tights24 Pillar of the Community United States 2254 Posts	Posted 10/31/2007 07:35 am Welcome to the forum. As gxseries already stated, that does stink. However, you have found the right place in order to help you with what is left/saved. Be careful when handling the coins, and if no gloves are available, hold the coin on the edges. Peruse the forum and find the best match for the questions that you have, and post some pics. There is sure to be multiple folks here to help with evaluating your coins and notes. Report this Post to the Staff
Encourager New Member United States 3 Posts	Posted 11/03/2007 11:37 am Thanks everyone! Will buy the silica gel ASAP. I will take some photos, but with dial-up, hmmm. I may be able to get my son who has the best computer everything to post the pics for me. I need photos of the front and back, I assume. Gee, maybe we will be able to pay off the mortgage so my hubby can retire! LOL! Report this Post to the Staff
Encourager New Member United States 3 Posts	Posted 11/03/2007 12:53 pm Okay, my son walked me through this, my hubby took the pictures. Here they are: Image: resized1682.jpg 89.38 KB Image: resized1683.jpg 93.63 KB Let me know what you think! Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16849 Posts	Posted 11/04/2007 02:10 am Let's see. Sad to say, neither of those two are particularly rare or valuable, though they're still interesting. The one on the left is from Russia, a 1 kopek dated 1798 from the Ekaterinberg mint. KM/C#94.2, catalogue value $3 in VG condition; maybe a little higher, my 1700's catalogue is a few years old now, and the "new rich" in Russia have been driving prices for Russian coins higher. The one on the right (with the hole) is from Denmark, a 1 skilling dated 1771. According to the catalogue, these were actually struck from 1771 to 1785, all with "1771" as the date, so they're quite common for a 200 year old coin. KM 616.1, catalogue value $5 in VG, but the hole will bring the value down. If you're looking to make an insurance claim, I would recommend you take them to a reputable coin dealer in your area for a formal valuation; the insurance company isn't going to put much faith in the valuing skills of anonymous people like us on an Internet forum. If you only want to know out of curiosity (or morbid curiosity, with respect to the ruined notes), then we can certainly be of assistance to you. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis Report this Post to the Staff
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