American&Norwegian heirloom
Bergom
Posts: 9 ✭
Hello everyone,
This is my first post in the group, and I’ve chosen to write it anonymously. I’m hoping for some advice.
Over 60 years ago, a small shipment arrived in Norway from the Midwest. It mostly consisted of homemade wooden chests filled with personal belongings. Among them was a fairly large collection of American and Canadian silver coins — Mint and Proof sets, Whitman albums, circulated coins stored in jars and bags, and more.
This “silver treasure” was discovered in an attic in Norway about 22 years ago, after the owner passed away in a small town in Wisconsin at the age of 99. During the inheritance process, I ended up with all the silver coins, along with some stamps and a few banknotes.
I have no idea how to go about getting everything properly valued — or how best to sell it all. I’d really appreciate any constructive advice. Thank you in advance!
Comments
You can't get a specific answer without someone doing an inventory of everything. What you've shown so far is just 90% "junk" silver which is worth around 50x face value, IF you can find someone to buy it.
Discovered in Norway after the owner passed away in Wisconsin? There must be a story in there but no need to share if you don't want to.
From what we can see (and there could be some gems we can't see) it's mostly pretty straightforward stuff.
But time has been kind to that hoard and strong silver prices will make it of some value.
From what I can see, the sets in the blue folders are circulated and missing the keys, so you're pretty much looking at just silver value. The same goes for the Proof and mint sets. While some of these would have had a premium value at say, $30 to $40 silver, now, as they say, "A rising tide lifts all boats."
I use a website called coinflation.com to get an up to date precious metal value on single coins as well as mint and proof sets. It would be a good starting point along with the newest Redbook to look at pricing beyond that. Anything dated 1964 and before in dimes, quarters and halves will be 90 percent and worth in the 50X range now. That's just the tip of the iceberg. The Redbook will be great help both for singles and sets.
Thank you so much for all the responses so far. I’ll try to share more information in this thread later and
I can share the story about the heirloom if there’s interest.
Dumb post deleted, I suggested creating an El av Gull label for slabs.
Just to attempt to get this straight. Sixty-plus years ago someone from the Midwest of the US shipped to Norway a coin collection, plus other items. The collection was stored in Norway until 22-years ago when the owner died in Wisconsin. At that point you inherited the coins and collection you are sharing now.
What I can see in the blue Whitman folders are all common date, relatively circulated coins that are worth essentially their bullion value. Currently, silver and gold are going through wild swings, but you can find out the bullion value of these common coins by going to the Coinflation website-
https://www.coinflation.com
Scroll down past the first table and it will show a second table with the bullion value of the coins you have. There is a decent amount in that grouping. The image with the envelopes likely shows contemporary proof sets and these are worth a little more, but not much more given today's record bullion levels.
Without more data or better images that is pretty much what we can give to you. Good luck.
In honor of the memory of Cpl. Michael E. Thompson
Thank you for helping!
I will come back with more details and images.
That’s quite a large group there!
I can’t offer any helpful advice, but good luck. The folks here can likely get you on the right track.