EvilLandlord

Good thinking. I’m going to brush off my excel skills and see what I can do 🙂 thanks again!

Thanks! 🙂

Wow! Fantastic thank you! Could do with some software or app recommendations for keeping track of all these! Ideally I don't want to start a database only to discover I should have used different software and end up redoing them all!

Wow.. I just googled this coin dealer to see if he was still knocking around but it looks like he moved on from coins! The man who became Britain's biggest crystal meth dealer - BBC News Richard Lubbock of Lubbock Coins London (taxfreegold.co.uk)

Thank you! Glad you got to go through it all eventually.

I think he listed the shillings he has and then crossed some off for some reason, either sold, lost or listed in error perhaps. EDIT - actually you're quite right.. It says at the top "Shillings needed" I missed that as the rest are lists that he has.

Happy to take any and all opinions and thoughts on the collection that he had! I imagined as much regarding these predecimal coins and I assume he knew too, but just enjoyed the experience. As I mentioned above I'll probably keep the best one of each example and then try and fill the gaps over time as sort of a side quest in his memory while I search around and see what tickles my interest! Currently looking at what app/program to use to catalogue them so I hopefully won't have to do the exercise twice! Any recommendations on that front are welcomed too. I do wonder what history they have seen. Plenty has been going on while these little chaps have been going from pocket to pocket! Once I have sorted the wheat from the chaff I'll report back!

So far I have resisted the urge! Hopefully he did as well This is the general condition of these smaller coins and the scale of the task ahead of me! There are a few of these cases as well as some tins full of pennies and other stuff.. Just an overhead snapshot for ease now sorry. When I start getting my head around what is here I'll post more info in the silver forum

Hi! My grandad lost his wife to illness in about 1967/68 and I think he took up this hobby to keep his mind busy and to keep my dad and his sister busy (they were in their teens at the time) sorting through coins he brought back from the bank and sorting and date ordering them. I think the collecting side of it all kicked in a bit later and he occasionally ordered coins or visited jewellers on his travels and picked up some interesting coins from then on. It's mainly silver and lots and lots of "old money" (I've put his typed sheets of these below with a snapshot from some point in time, I've yet to work out if he collected more after this point and these don;t seem to list his larger silver coins) with some silver dollars and some peculiar medallions and collectible ones that I'm still trying to identify and check out. I'll certainly get photos of those up on the silver forum when I get chance to photograph them all! any input and advice is greatly appreciated. I have tubs here full of old pennies and all sorts of other things. It's quite a daunting task but I feel quite lucky to be able to enjoy doing it knowing that he went through all these at some point too He made a big deal of handing these over to me in one large collection so I doubt he had any stashed away anywhere. He seemed keen to pass the interest on at the time, eitehr to me or my children one day.

Fantastic! They look great. I'm still learning what's what. Looked up the Barmaid's Ruin. Very interesting!

digging a bit deeper when googling the £5 coin there seems to be 10 known coins that don't have the BP mark at the lower right of St George. I can't see one on this either which has me a bit worried that it's a fake, or worth a blooming fortune! https://www.sovr.co.uk/products/victoria-1887-pattern-five-pounds-no-bp-initials-pf61-cameo-hi29141 EDIT: Actually on much closer inspection there are two small dots visible. Pretty sure that'll be the BP. As well as a camera with a decent macro lens it also appears I need to get myself a magnifying glass! Any other items you recommend purchasing for my collecting and stacking journey ahead of me? I've seen videos on devices that test the content and size of coins to verify them as authentic, but they seem quite pricey and may not apply to me at the level I'm at at the moment.. Also wondering what the best way to store and catalogue a collection is, what materials to avoid using that may react with them etc. Is there a FAQ up anywhere?

I found this link which seems to have the same case too.. https://mjhughescoins.com/1887-specimen-gold-and-silver-coin-set/ There are a number of these cases in different shapes for different sets in the same maroon colour with the cross on the front of the box as well when browsing online for these 1887 sets of different types.

Sounds like I have my first mission! Here are the other sides (or obverses as I have just learned)!

Here is a close up (which took far too many attempts and made me realise I need a better camera to take proper close ups of small coins - any recommendations?) of both of the small gold coins.

@Stuntman I've just taken out the case and it seems exactly like the coin in the top middle of the case in the photgraph. Compared them side by side. If that's the case then what am I missing in this set? I feel the need to complete it! Also, how am I to know which of these two coins was originally in the case? They both seem to be in extremely good condition.