Hi all,
My name is Brian and I'm a collectiholic. (Hi Brian!)
Just kidding.
I found this forum through Coin Collecting Help on FB. I'm in my 6th decade and I've been "keeping" coins for a long time, but I've never been a collector in the true sense of the word. I have my dad's collection that I inherited and he was active from the 50s to 1970. I've made a couple of efforts over the years to try to catalog everything but there's so much that it gets to be a bit overwhelming.
Perhaps my renewed interest due to this forum and the FB group will keep me on track. I have about 40-50 pounds of coins, mostly silver, some pennies and others, and just a couple of gold coins which I really question whether or not they are real, as well as some early paper currency, military script, Asian currency, etc. We lived on Guam for 8 years and he was stationed in Japan during Korea (B-29s blazes From The Heavens) so he made a lot of purchases in Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and probably Vietnam and Thailand.
I've picked up coins over the years that I've found in my change or at work but I've never actually bought or sold a coin. I would imagine that after I catalog everything I'll start to liquidate it here and there but I'm in no rush to do so.
I've got my Red Book, my magnifying glass, flips to put the coins in, and a scanner to keep a digital record of everything. I'll probably just catalog everything in a spreadsheet instead of buying a software package, but I'm open to having my mind changed on that.
Anyhow, that's me. I'm happy to be here and looking forward to learning a lot and asking a lot of questions.
I posted some of my stuff on Flickr years so if anyone wants to take a look you can go to:
https://photos.google.com/album/AF1QipP ... IEGaDH_YSJ
Towards the bottom you'll see an 1878 Morgan Dollar CC that is shown as VF on the card and it appears that he paid $4.95 for it. Anyone have a guess as to how long ago that would have been? I'm guessing that it would bring a few more than $5 on the market today. You can also see the few gold coins that I have. Again, as far as how real they are I have no idea.
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Re: Yet another newbie
Welcome Brian!
You came to the correct place for help. I would say he bought that CC in the 60's but it would have been before 1980 at any rate.
I would be glad to help you with your collection.
You came to the correct place for help. I would say he bought that CC in the 60's but it would have been before 1980 at any rate.
I would be glad to help you with your collection.
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Re: Yet another newbie
Welcome to the forum. I clicked your link to view the images but was told there was an error. :confused:
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Re: Yet another newbie
Thanks. That was just the ones that would fit on the table in the little rooms they let you use.
This link has a lot of the same images, but it also shows some of the currency: https://goo.gl/photos/kGxUuXj3odLpLw7Z7
This link has a lot of the same images, but it also shows some of the currency: https://goo.gl/photos/kGxUuXj3odLpLw7Z7
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