Old Coins - Advice Please

[Ann]

Am posting on CB as more people will see it and hopefully give more advice.

After clearing out an elderly relative's house we have found bags and bags of old pre-decimal coins mainly half pennies and threepenny bits, but none of them are rare years so not worth anything to collectors. They fill several carrier bag size bags - we have lugged them around to valuation days/auctions (they are so heavy to carry) but nobody wants to know. They are mostly bagged up into £5 or £1 bank bags.

Have any ABers had this experience before? I have heard we can get scrap value for them but where do we start to get rid of them please? Any advice would be very welcome as they are cluttering up my house! Thanks.

[gness]

Hi, Ann.....have a google around for charities that can make use of old coins......x

[gness]

The Alzheimer's Society looks a good bet...x

[Ann]

Thanks Gness, will take a look online but will need to crane to shift them ;)

[gness]

Bit like I found in my Mum's house......copper everywhere! You may find a local branch willing to collect them......x

[Ann]

Bless them - I think all the elderly ones thought their "treasure trove" would be worth thousands for family after they had gone, but all it has done is create a problem!

[Captain2]

Ann, probably doesn't help your predicament much, but see my reply here

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/How-it-Works/Question1123050.html

Good luck with them

[stuey]

I just had a quick glance at my "A Guide Book Of English Coins", and it's not the latest edition so prices may have gone up (or down). Anyway, some Victorian pennies and half-pennies were fetching good collectors' prices. Even some 1918, 1919, 1950, and 1951 pennies also. Get yourself a guide and spend a few hours looking at them...At the same time, imagine all the history and people that they have been through.

[stuey]

I should add that when I said "...fetching good prices", I was referring to coins of those dates at the lowest grade, not proof or uncirculated: obviously those grades are more valuable.

[EDDIE51]

Bag them up in small lots and sell on eBay. 10 to 20 coins in a lot for £2' buy it now'. I bet you sell them. Remember to weigh them for postage charge though. Don't offer any choice of coin though it has to be 'pot luck'.

[EDDIE51]

Here you go £5.99 a kilo plus postage
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/U-K-Pre-Decimal-Coins1-KILO-No-Silver-Content-Mixed-Conditionas-Seen-UNSORTED-/400987480924?hash=item5d5cb7635c
There are loads of similar items.

[woofgang]

people use them for vintage or shabby chic projects and altered art. If you have got a local selling page on facebook or similar, you might do better as no p and p and coins are heavy.

[EDDIE51]

Sorry £8,49 a Kilo.

[Ann]

Thanks everyone for your helpful tips. I will look into them all :0)

[trt]

Ann,
why don't you send the person selling them in Eddies link an e-mail to see if he wants to buy them, to sell on?