Complete 20th century bronze collection

[Guest Glyn]

Hello,

I hope I'm not intruding but I promised my dad (who has deep seated computer fear) that I would try to help.

My Father has decided he would like to sell his believed complete (except 1933 penny) collection of English 20th century circulated bronze coins. It is a total of 290 coins in red Linder trays and he describes the condtion of them including 17% uncirculated and 65% 'VF' or better.

Would anybody have an idea of value of the collection as whole or any good ideas where I might look or go about finding one.

[Guest Glyn]

Thankyou!

[Sylvester 15]

Well there's a number of ways we could do this...

Now i presume since your father has such an extensive collection that he knows how to grade and whatnot...

If so you could either purchase a cheap coin book and look up the prices once you've catalogued the dates and grades of each and every coin.

Or you could PM me with a list, lets say 50 coins at a time (so my inbox doesn't overflow!)

Starting with the pennies, state the grade and dates and i'll be happy to look them up for you. It'll not take me long to get through 290 coins.

Then i could give you an approx value per coin and let you add them all up!

Obviously the 1960s stuff won't be worth a great deal even in UNC, as they are pretty common.

But the earlier stuff might be. Unless it's all below AVF condition, then it might not be worth all that much.

But we'll see.

Regards.

Syl.

[Guest Glyn]

That is an incredibly generous offer

... although I think that my dad had the idea that the collection might be worth more than the sum of its individual parts and since talking to him about it he has said that has listed and valued the coins with this years coin year book at roughly £325 (although it looks like I still get the pleasure of typing it all out)

Would he be correct that the collection could comand a higher price due it being a complete set?.

Many thanks for your time!

[Sylvester 15]

That is an incredibly generous offer

... although I think that my dad had the idea that the collection might be worth more than the sum of its individual parts and since talking to him about it he has said that has listed and valued the coins with this years coin year book at roughly £325 (although it looks like I still get the pleasure of typing it all out)

Would he be correct that the collection could comand a higher price due it being a complete set?.

Many thanks for your time!

Your welcome...

Not sure about whether it would sell for more as a complete set or not though, it might!

But you know what they say about selling in bulk quantities!!

[Chris Perkins 228]

Dear Glyn,

If the collection is only 17% Uncirculated, and assuming those uncirculated coins are not just the 60's ones I think your fathers estimate is probably very ambitious.

If the 65% that are VF minimum are dated say 1930 - 1967 then those are not really in the minimum collectable grades.

The fact they are a set and that there will be scarcer years among them makes them too good for scrap, but please don't expect a lot!

Please do submit a list with accurate grades for us to see.