Advice Please, I Will Tell All.

No prob sunny--my daughter was born in Ft. Bragg!

So, I bought the red 2011 coin book, another on Morgans, and yet another on the Peace, a toner for my face... oh wait, never mind, and my husband is bringing home a mixed sized bunch of those cardboard coin holders. I thought those best for now as I will need to write ( in pencil,) notes, a guess grade, and worth as I go.Right?
also found an old pair of cotton gloves.
Later, I will read up on taking pictures and hopefully figure out how to post them... Wish me luck. I am also a writer, and if my editor catches me on here, I'm dead meat, LOL> I must force myself to do actual work at least 3 hours a day, then use this as my reward I suppose. New and exciting, y'all know how it goes I spect.
This, has been great. I expect I'll be on several times a day for a while reading and learning from past posts. Thanks for all the info on here, and the questions answered personally. If any of you can think of something I should be specifically looking for, give a shout!

Sunny, from one writer to another, congrats on your learning attempts and efforts to preserve these coins. You're in the right place to learn just about everything you need to know about coin collecting, and the ten-year-old daughter analogy is valid, as you won't find "problem" posters here as you might elsewhere. When I fell into CCF a few years ago, I had no idea what I was in for, even though I had spasmodically collected coins since the '50's. Now I'm hooked, and I collect coins for their beauty and history, and maybe because I'm OCD enough that I think I have to fill in all those holes in my coin folders. Last, and that's dead last, I collect coins as an investment. You've come to the right place!

A clean, dry place is where you would want to store coins of value - or any coin you want to protect. For coins of value there are coin flips and holders that can be bought at any coin shop for cheap.

If you take them to a dealer to have them evaluated or appraised, make it clear you are NOT selling them. Your screen name says you're in NC. If you're within reasonable driving distance to Fayetteville (just outside Fort Bragg) I would be happy to look at them and see if any are noteworthy.

And oh, yeah. Until you know what's valuable handle the coins by the edges.

First off - Don't go back to that guy. A guarentee you that there's a better coin shop out there. I don't know about all the coins you listed, but current melt value alone on the Kennedy half (1964 only) is about $10.xx each. As for the extra wheats you have, my suggestion is to go get a penny roll and put them in there. Unless you have a duplicate key or semi key date you wont make a ton of money off of them. Don't get me wrong, you can sell them individually and some might bring a few bucks. They will all bring more then 2c each though. However, that's a pretty average (slightly below) buying price on bulk wheats for a dealer.

hey where do you live? I lived right off of Cliffdale RD! 2000-2003

Yeah, you definitely do not want to blurt out any personal information at all. Once you've had 50 quality posts, you'll have access to the PM'ing system here. (You'll be able to click on someone's name and send them an e-mail through the forum).

Stick around and learn what you can before you sell anything. Eventually, you could possibly sell some things here that will give you closer to fair value and by then you will know what you have and what you want. Plus, you'll know they are going to a loving home.

Best of both worlds!

Maybe your first hint should have been that he was a "con guy" Sunny