johnnycakes
Footballguy
As I have posted here previously, my dad passed away last February. I am now in the process of going through the house and figuring out what to keep, what to sell, what to donate to charity, and what to throw out into the 30-yard dumpster I have setting in the driveway.
Every weekend, I spend a day going through stuff. Tons of stuff. My parents weren't total packrats... not like what you see on Hoarders on TV, but they were pretty tight. My mom squeaked when she walked. Every morning when my dad went outside, a little bird would come sit on his shoulder and go, "cheep cheep cheep." You get the picture.
My dad liked to collect coins. He never bought any of them. He just got them out of circulation over the years. And he started probably back in the 1930's. So today I found a box that was full of tiny little envelopes, about the size of what a hotel might put your key in. Each one was labeled, "i.e., 1921D, 1924S, 1910P", etc. I just made those up... so don't bother to check to see if those mints actually produced coins in those years. But he has envelopes going back to the early 1900's, possibly earlier. And then he has some old rolled pennies.... rolled at least 30 years ago, if not more.
So there are many, many coins here, all in these tiny little envelopes. He does have a loose-leaf notebook in which he typed each year and mintage and how many coins were in each envelope.
But none of this stuff is graded.
What I need to do is to find a way to efficiently and expeditiously get these coins graded. I don't mind sending them 10 at a time for a year or doing something like that. I'm not going to send whole boxes to them because I wouldn't know for sure exactly what I sent.
But what's the best, most efficient, and most cost-effective way of getting all these graded so I know exactly what I have?
Or should I just spend them?
Thanks.
Every weekend, I spend a day going through stuff. Tons of stuff. My parents weren't total packrats... not like what you see on Hoarders on TV, but they were pretty tight. My mom squeaked when she walked. Every morning when my dad went outside, a little bird would come sit on his shoulder and go, "cheep cheep cheep." You get the picture.
My dad liked to collect coins. He never bought any of them. He just got them out of circulation over the years. And he started probably back in the 1930's. So today I found a box that was full of tiny little envelopes, about the size of what a hotel might put your key in. Each one was labeled, "i.e., 1921D, 1924S, 1910P", etc. I just made those up... so don't bother to check to see if those mints actually produced coins in those years. But he has envelopes going back to the early 1900's, possibly earlier. And then he has some old rolled pennies.... rolled at least 30 years ago, if not more.
So there are many, many coins here, all in these tiny little envelopes. He does have a loose-leaf notebook in which he typed each year and mintage and how many coins were in each envelope.
But none of this stuff is graded.
What I need to do is to find a way to efficiently and expeditiously get these coins graded. I don't mind sending them 10 at a time for a year or doing something like that. I'm not going to send whole boxes to them because I wouldn't know for sure exactly what I sent.
But what's the best, most efficient, and most cost-effective way of getting all these graded so I know exactly what I have?
Or should I just spend them?
Thanks.
