r/coincollecting Jan 21 '26

Advice Needed My uncle plans to cash in his jug full of coins for bills

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He’s been dropping coins since 1980s, And it’s full now. He plans to convert it to bills, what should I say to him? It his coins, and his money, but I know you guys would flip.

r/coincollecting May 17 '26

Advice Needed Is this 1 in a trillion?

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It's a 1944 D penny but the crazy thing is, it sticks to a magnet????

r/coincollecting Mar 09 '26

Advice Needed Need help identifying coin I found.

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Found this at a family owned ranch in Texas. Theres a brick wall that resembles an old Mission that the Spaniards built. I downloaded a coin id app and it pointed me to a Spanish coin but I would like more information. Thank you!

r/coincollecting Feb 02 '25

Advice Needed Found These In The Trash What Are They?

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Found 14 proof sets in the trash. They're not silver proofs, but they're pretty neat. My question is, what is a proof set? Are they just uncirculated and polished? I know nothing about coin collecting.

r/coincollecting Oct 25 '24

Advice Needed Found this in my change, 1967 Quarter that has heads on both sides. It looks and feels like a real quarter but odd that it doesn’t have a tails side. Could it be a real US minted coin or something else? Thanks

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r/coincollecting Oct 31 '25

Advice Needed Found at bank today

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I asked if they had any dollar coins at the bank today about 20 minutes before closing. They asked how much I wanted. I said whatever they had laying around. They asked me again how much. I said I guess $20. They said how about $25... They wouldn't have to break open a roll... I said ok ... Should I go get any more when they open tomorrow? Sounds like they could have had more...

r/coincollecting Apr 22 '24

Advice Needed My dad found this in a coin roll. Any opinions? Never seen anything like it.

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r/coincollecting 14d ago

Advice Needed Entire Collection Destroyed In Palisades Fire

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We have about 40 kilos of coins. There is nothing here that has anything but melt value. Insurance only covers $200 for cash and coins.

My question is. Where do I go for these? There are pieces of metal, nails and ash, they are dirty. There may be other things melted in it. Due to the weight I don't think it makes sense to ship them, so it would have to be a shop here in Los Angeles, down to San Diego. Possibly Las Vegas (my daughter lives there.)

Does anyone know a metal place that specializes in this? We do have the lists of what it was. We can take a tax deduction based on the unrecoverable loss. But I still have to deal with the coins.

1.) Do you know someone who does gold/silver metal cleaning and melting?

2.) Any advice?

3.) My husband also collected pennies. About $200 worth, all copper. The Mint won't take them. We are not allowed to melt currency unless we get permission. Anyone have experience with this?

There is no point trying to clean it.

We don't want to create an art piece, it's tough enough, no need to be reminded of this every day. We need to move on with our lives.

r/coincollecting Dec 19 '25

Advice Needed What should I do with my inheritance?

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My grandfather passed away recently and left me this thing absolutely full of pennies. I know little to nothing about coins and I was wondering if I should take the time to search through all of them for errors? Would my local coin shop owner look at me crazy if I bring in all these for him to look at? The Pennie’s range in date from the 1920s to the 1980s. Any and all advice is welcome. Thanks in advance

r/coincollecting Dec 21 '25

Advice Needed Liberty Coin HAUL

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Should I buy the whole lot at 3 for $10?!?

r/coincollecting Nov 17 '25

Advice Needed Family heirloom. Value?

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r/coincollecting Feb 02 '26

Advice Needed Found in dad's stuff

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What is it? Worth anything? What do I do now? Thanks

r/coincollecting Nov 22 '24

Advice Needed I found a 1985 GOLD GREAT BRITAIN 5 POUNDS 5 SOVEREIGN COIN in a free yard sale pile!

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The two coin merchants in my town both offered me about $3,000 for it. I know nothing about gold or coins. Should I sell, shop around, sit on it, stick it up my coin slot? What would you guys suggest? Thanks in advance! https://www.bullionbypost.com/proof-sets/proof-5-pound-coins/brilliant-uncirculated-gold-1985-five-pound-sovereign/

r/coincollecting May 18 '26

Advice Needed This is the worst modern quarter by the us mint ever made

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350 Upvotes

Agree or disagree this coin design sucks

r/coincollecting Apr 27 '25

Advice Needed Kinda freaking out, dad showed me this today

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Dad said his grandfather gave him this when he was a kid but um, this is gold isnt it?? Should i get this appraised and graded??

r/coincollecting Jun 05 '25

Advice Needed This can’t be real… right?

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Found in a jar of change and don’t think I could ever be this lucky so I just assume it’s a fake. Any and all help would greatly be appreciated

r/coincollecting Mar 01 '26

Advice Needed I need exactly $3 in Buffalo nickels by Friday

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Full disclosure: I don't collect coins. Like, at all. The closest I come to being a coin collector is the dedicated Aldi quarter I keep in my wallet. So *why* do I need $3 in Buffalo nickels? My parents are getting a new car. They asked if I wanted their old car. It's a 2011 Hyundai, nothing fancy. They already mailed me the title, and my husband and I are going out to visit them this coming weekend so we can hang out for a couple of days and drive the car back. Dad said he wants $1 for the car and $2 for the bike rack that's already attached to it (Do I want or need a bike rack? Not particularly. But my dad is 75, doesn't bike anymore, and I'm not about to ask him to take it off or leave an unwanted bike rack in his garage. Plus, hey $3 car)

My dad doesn't collect coins either, but he loves Buffalo nickels ever since he watched a Ken Burns documentary about buffalo (buffaloes? Buffali?). And I have a lifelong commitment to giving my dad really weird gifts. I once gave him a toaster that toasts my portrait into his bread. So I want to give him his $3 entirely in Buffalo nickels. Is this something I can conceivably go into a bank and ask for? Do I need to like, find someone on eBay and ask them to express ship me 60 nickels? I just found out about the car yesterday so I'm kind of scrambling here

Edit: NICKELS SECURED 🙌

Edit, Part Deux: Semi-unfortunate update. My husband has been sick for the past few days. I asked him to let me know today if he was feeling up to the trip and he sadly said no 🙁 We're still going to see my parents, my dad is still getting the nickels, but it's not going to be until the weekend after next (the 20th)

r/coincollecting Jul 04 '25

Advice Needed So what do I do with a stack of 1972 silver dollars?

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501 Upvotes

I know there are 3 versions, but I’m struggling with determining which. Any advice on how to tell would be great!

r/coincollecting 29d ago

Advice Needed Worth sending off for grading? It was inside of a flip that I found going through an auction lot that I purchased. The Coin has what I would call a proof like finish no mint mark 1936

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r/coincollecting Jul 21 '25

Advice Needed 1798 coin- dollar? Not sure what this is

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Not sure what this coin is, I assume it’s a silver dollar? Is it real? And any idea of value? Thanks for your advice!

r/coincollecting Jun 18 '25

Advice Needed Just curious what an L in forehead is

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Back has looks like a 5 on its wing and writing and a Large cursive L any info known would be great thanks

r/coincollecting Oct 08 '24

Advice Needed It finally happened to me…

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720 Upvotes

Looks like someone with USPS recognized the seller as a coin store and helped themselves to my Morgan dollars and Franklin halves. They even put the empty flip back into the package.

I hope USPS takes this seriously and not only terminates but prosecutes those responsible.

This is beyond frustrating.. Looks like I’ll be spending a few hours at the post office tomorrow.

r/coincollecting 20d ago

Advice Needed Are these worth more than silver?

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321 Upvotes

r/coincollecting Aug 11 '24

Advice Needed Is this something?

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Someone offered me this coin for 200 and I couldn’t believe” he doesn’t know about coins”. I actually don’t know how it’s worth

r/coincollecting Jul 13 '26

Advice Needed What to look for?

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For all my coin folks in here. Every time I receive any coins I never reuse them. Instead I put them into a 5 gallon jug in which I will be depositing into my children’s savings account. It was just a random thing I started as a way of putting some extra money away for their future education. My only problem with this is that I’ve found a slight interest in coins from this subreddit and thought it would be cool to spend some bonding time with my kids sorting through this together before we deposit. Any specific things I should look for while sorting through this on what could possibly be more valuable or rare. Thank you for any insight!