I inherited a small eclectic collection of U.S. and World coins from my step Mom...
Kurisu
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First let me say just how much I love and appreciate my Dad.
He turned 80 earlier this year, has a touch of Parkinson's but a memory like a steel trap.
My step Mom's father passed away last year and she discovered his random coin collection this year...I'm the collector in the family so she wanted me to have it. I promised to tell her if I discovered anything amazing of course.
Her father came to the U.S. from Germany in the 50's.
My Dad called me to tell me it was on the way and he was sorting them for me by how "nice" the conditions were 
...I told him thanks but he can send it all together and it would likely take me just a few hours to get through it for them and told him don't clean or wipe any of them lol!
My step Mom was in the background hilariously yelling "Your Dad is looking at them all with a loupe but can't see an f'ing thing, his eyes are terrible" as my Dad was asking her "what year do you see on this?!", he was checking out the large cent lol.
My Dad, originally a PHD chemist, used to write in a perfect font...now's he got a bit shaky shaky. But he put so much effort into all this it made me tear up a bit. I think he really enjoyed going through them for me. He was always fascinated by coins and certainly inspired my love of them but he never collected.
He sorted nearly all the coins and currency by years and worldly locations.
I just wanted to show how much effort he put into this and mention how much I thoroughly enjoyed going through all this.
Long story short, I think the German silver were the nicest of the bunch. The bent and fairly destroyed large cent I genuinely love. The most valuable stuff (according to what I looked up) are some of the lovely cuban currencies and older German bills.
Nothing incredibly valuable but I just wanted to share how much I appreciated and enjoyed doing this and receiving such a special gift and want to share the love and positive vibes with you all.
My step Mom has 3 sons all much younger than I am...I'm going to send them all one of the German silver coins in a nice little holder because they were very close with their grandfather.
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That looks like a nice grouping of coins and currency, extra special how your Dad sorted them so thoroughly 👍🏼
Mr_Spud
I like the way he organized the coins in the Ziploc bags with labels. Some nice family heirlooms. 👍🏻
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Wonderful story
Thanks for sharing
Mike
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He was always fascinated by coins and certainly inspired my love of them but he never collected.
And the meticulous care in how he delivered them to you shows.
“We are only their care-takers,” he posed, “if we take good care of them, then centuries from now they may still be here … ”
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I'm going to Florida this weekend to visit my dad and a similar situation is going to occur. He's giving me the coins he has collected over the years. Mostly mint and proof sets thou. He says he is downsizing.
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@Kurisu... What a great story, and how fantastic to have such an amazing group of coins and bills passed down to you. Really nice. Are the old German coins silver?? I have a couple of large, silver old German coins that are really nice. Cheers, RickO
Nice story and thoughtful of the step mom to keep it in the family.
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Your dad did a good job! Thanks for sharing the story.
Thanks for sharing. A very nice story.
Congrats on having a most loving, wonderful Dad. Hope he is Blessed. Miss mine every day.
Jim
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Great story along with some nice coins.
Thanks for sharing.
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A coffee shop friend of many years (he is in his late 70s) asked my wife to Saturday's ago why I was not at the coffee shop. She told him I was attending a coin show. He told my wife that he has a big box of old coins (in folders, in rolls and loose). He said it is very heavy, likely over 60 pounds.
When I saw him at the coffee shop last Sunday he told me that the box of coins he has belonged to his mother and passed to him when she died. He said she collected for decades from circulation, from banks and possibly from coin shops. He said he is not a collector and that he would bring the box to me so that I could look through the coins and evaluate them.
If his mother was 25 when he was born then today she would be over 100 years old. If she collected starting as a YN or even a young adult in her twenties that would place her collecting efforts in the late 1930's/early 1940s to maybe the 1980s.
Who knows what is in the box!!!
I am looking forward to seeing the box, opening it and taking a peek at what is inside.
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The British pennies are cool