Posted 12/27/2009 8:31 pm
Yeah she collected them mate, from about 1920 onwards, I've only just found out that a small part of the collection got split up. I have the cases but no coins in the cases. She also had to sell some of the collection to pay for items eg - air con at her house. I've also been givin a coin collection with approx 150 - 200 coins. She used to have a 1923 half penny but sold it in the mid 80's, bit of a bugger but worse of all is that she took a lot of the coins to get valuated in the mid 80's to a person who "lost/stole" a 1930 penny. She didnt relise till months afterwards. She was really annoyed about it but being in her 60's or 70's at the time she couldnt be bothered chasing it up and it was till just before she died she told my mum (her daughter) who was very very p****d off that she didnt tell her or her brothers about it for them to chase it up. I've been givin all the notes though. There arent many of them but I have been biten by the bug and have started to collect, mainly notes in the hope to pass down to my children one day. I can tell you that walking into a coin and note fair and being twice as young as the next bloke is very daunting!
