New to "Coining" ;) (and just inherited a bunch of US coins)...
Razrlite
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Hello - my grandmother is 101 years old and just gave me a bunch of coins she's collected over the years. I have a lot of coins with vintage over the last 100 years (+/-) and would like to get advice about how best to assess what I have and how best to store, etc. Many coins are "silver age" half dollars, quarters, dimes, nickles. I have a handful of 1943 wheat pennies (or cents I believe they are called 
. I have some that look more rare than others.
Anyone care to provide some starter advice?
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Some imaged of the 1943 cents
Welcome to the forum
The 1943’s are known as “Steelies” but don’t have too much value unless unless they are high grade.
Suggest purchasing a “RedBook”, doesn’t have to be new as you have older coins, and do a basic study on what you have. ( Do not take too much stock in the values posted). Then you can list what you think are your rare coins so that someone here can help and evaluate what you have. When posting, a clear, cropped photo of both sides of each coin is required. To avoid confusion, only one coin per thread please.
Welcome to the forum. Greenstang gave some great advice. Don't submit any for grading from PCGS until you have a reasonable value established and understand the grading rules completely. Grading can be expensive when large number of coins are being considered.
First advice for any beginner! Do not attempt to "improve" your coins in any way by cleaning, polishing, scrubbing off dirt, whatever ... leave them in their natural state or you will destroy much of their value.
Good luck!
Kind regards,
George
I totally agree.....