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Thank you all very much for your excellent advice. I think you are right Peckris, I would say they are in average condition as they were not stored especially well and I think I’m going to do as you suggest and invest a few quid in the ‘Grading British Coins’ book and also sort through more specifically for the coins/dates you all recommended. If I find anything that matches the special dates mentioned, I’ll let you know and post some pictures. I am in the SE of England, so if I find I’m really not understanding grading them using the book I’ll get back to one of you guys that offered to have a look at them holus bolus. Thanks again for all your help. As a complete newbie I really appreciate the time you have taken to share your knowledge with me. p.s. (Scouse accent) – “Accrington Stanley,who are they?"..........."Exactly!”

Hi I am new to this forum and also coin collecting. Actually I can’t really say I’m a coin collector at all but have recently inherited a fair amount of old UK coins and would appreciate some advice on the best way to handle them. I’m afraid I’m not really into collecting things and I don’t see that I’m suddenly going to get the bug with this bunch of coins so (I hope I don’t offend) I think I’m going to sell them. I was hoping for some advice on the best way to do this. These seem to be the ways I can think of: 1. take the whole lot to a coin shop/collector and sell them in one hit 2. split them up into bunches and sell them on Ebay 3. work out which ones contain silver and sell them by weight I would be prepared to spend the time looking through them for any specific worthy coins if I knew what to look for but I think the learning curve might be quite steep and long unless it was as easy as for example, “all 1920 George VI shillings are valuable”, which I’m guessing it’s probably not. Just so you know what the bunch of coins contains, here is an approximate summary: Shillings: · 1000 George V shillings · 500 George VI shillings · 500 QE II shillings two shillings: · 100 George VI two shillings florins: · 100 George V florins half crowns: · 100 George V half crowns · 100 George VI half crowns · 100 QE II half crowns sixpence: · 500 George VI and QE II sixpence threepence: · 1000 George VI and QE II threepence Old pennies and half pennies: · Couple of buckets full Would appreciate any advice. I hope it’s not considered ‘bad form’ to just come on the forum to ask how to get rid of a bunch of coins (if it is I apologise in advance) but seeing as I know hardly anything about coins I thought it would be the perfect place to get some advice. Regards