A friend at work asked me to search the collection she inherited from her Aunt...I enjoyed this!

Kurisu

My friend is about 60, the Aunt was in her 80s...
What I really love about this is how it reminds me of my experience as a YN and my whole learning curve as a collector.
The landscape is so massive, so much learning to do. I love it, I genuinely love it, for decades now.

I've done this a few times for friends and acquaintances, looking through a new found collection for them. They all know I've been collecting for some time. I love this, the trust, the honor, the history, the sentimentalness of it all...

Usually the collections are mostly junk and novelties...while this one is not that special in the scheme of serious collectors...she had some real stuff in there and it was an absolute pleasure. I put some in holders for her and labled them. I checked everything for varieties and errors.

Tomorrow at work I'll get to tell her that she's got a few hundred dollars of wonderful things in there.

If anyone notices something special please let me know, the images are pretty big. Please and thank you!

I managed to find the Masonic Penny design referenced in a few places but not this one for Ohio...

OAKSTAR

Now that is what I call fun!!! 👍🏻

How did the other side of that Columbian Expo look?

Tom147

Although it's not my collecting interest, found it kinda neat the next to last picture is from my hometown. Cambridge, Ohio

cladking

Thew B&O medal should bring a decent price (10 0r $15).

ndeagles

Would be excited to go through a collection like this too. I just love those circulated ASEs

hfjacinto

2 years ago I had the same thing. I spent a few hours going through a collection. After we seperated everything I told her what had value and what didn't. We priced out the collection and she offered it to me, but I don't really collect circulated pre64 silver coins. I told her what she would get at my local dealer. I was off by ~$50 in a $4500 sale. I did buy a 1986 1/10 ounce gold coin, but she sold everything else to the dealer, its fun when its like that. Its not fun when all they have is 2000 wheaties all are circulated and common date.

bsshog40

Man, it looks like a lot of these coins were stored in something that created a lot of verdigris. Hopefully most are salvageable.

1960NYGiants

Cambridge, Ohio Masonic Chapter 53 Penny:
https://tokencatalog.com/token_record_forms.php?action=DisplayTokenRecord&td_id=418462&inventory_id=433183&td_image_id=265095&attribution_id=429667&record_offset=24

OAKSTAR

I kinda like the way those ASE aged. Or do you think someone tried to clean them?

fluffy155

How strange... I was convinced that a naturally toned ASE looked like the aurora borealis.

Steven59

Nice. Fun to go through old foreign silver coins and look up what finenss they were minted in.

BryceM

Cool stuff. Lots of PVC. Should probably be conserved before putting into flips.

mirabela

I recently helped a friend sort and dispose of something similar. She kept around $150 FV in 90% and cleared around $3000 selling the rest -- not bad for a pile of stuff that at first brush literally looked like a bunch of cans of loose screws.

Kurisu

@OAKSTAR said:
Now that is what I call fun!!! 👍🏻

How did the other side of that Columbian Expo look?

It was similar...a mid AU with that terminal toning.

AZDAVY

Envious, that sure seems like a lot fun. Thanks for sharing

divecchia

That sure looks like it was fun to go through.

Donato

privatecoin

@1960NYGiants said:
Cambridge, Ohio Masonic Chapter 53 Penny:
https://tokencatalog.com/token_record_forms.php?action=DisplayTokenRecord&td_id=418462&inventory_id=433183&td_image_id=265095&attribution_id=429667&record_offset=24

Thats certainly an interesting token to me.