Newly Inherited Coins

[Poppy]

Hello 🙂 thank you for letting me join the forum. I've been reading through the various posts for the last few weeks.

I have recently inherited a number of coins; some of which have been fairly well looked after, some of which are in old, damp albums and some of which are rattling around in boxes and tins. 

I hope you won't mind me posting a few on here every now and again as I start to sort through them all 😊. At first glance it looks like some of them might be worth a little bit and others are worth nothing more than the enjoyment of looking at them and learning about them. A lot of the ones in albums have gone green!

Hopefully there's a photo attached of the better of the storage containers. The coins in these containers are in little velvety trays.

Hopefully this all posts correctly! Thank you 🙂.

 

[Chris Perkins]

Hello.

Certainly a nice looking coin cabinet. I hope the content is equally high-end!

The greenness is caused by PVC, which was a common constituent of plastic coin albums from the 60s to 80s (and sometimes beyond). You may be lucky and be able to remove the mess with acetone, which won't harm the coins.

[Poppy]

Aaw thank you 🙂 that acetone tip sounds like a good plan! The old albums are definitely from the 80's because I used to help put the coins into them as my share of the hobby! 

Some of the coins from the cabinet look absolutely gorgeous - I'm going to do a bit of research to try to figure out what they are and then probably share some photos on here as they're so beautiful to look at 🤩 there's a nice variety of well loved coins (ie pretty worn out!) and barely touched coins.

Thank you again! 

[Paddy]

I am looking forward to seeing these!

 

[Poppy]

Thanks 🙂 I'm looking forward to working out what coins are here and how old they are. 

[secret santa]

46 minutes ago, Paddy said:

I am looking forward to seeing these!

Me too !

[Coinery]

Make sure it’s the surgical/household acetone, though, not the stuff you clean your nails with, as these mostly have moisturisers +\- other products added to them.

[Poppy]

That's also a very good tip - thank you. This is such a lovely forum 😊

[Paddy]

As a tip on getting surgical Acetone - chemists sell it but at very high price for very small quantities. You can order it online for a small fraction of the money.