EvilLandlord

Honestly - Excel would be best here.

I like the paper records - very cool.
I have all editions of Marsh’s “The Gold Sovereign” and Half Sovereign books.  Three of them came with the original invoices from Michael, signed and dated - one with a letter thanking someone for being one of the first people to buy his first book!  The signed invoices are, in some way more valuable to me than the books themselves.  

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)
 

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.

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

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)
 

Also possibly of interest are a couple of newspaper clippings he had.
Here's one that's a snapshot of the time
 
 

Also possibly of interest are a couple of newspaper clippings he had.
Here's one that's a snapshot of the time
 
 

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.

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!

More interesting stories to come out of your grandfather's story. Sorry for the kind of post hijack, but that picture in that article with the magnum ice creams next to that meth is wild! 😂

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)
 

Being a made up set might make sense as I found this too (the coin envelope was empty and I was hoping I hadn't lost it but it might be in here)! 

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.

Also possibly of interest are a couple of newspaper clippings he had.
Here's one that's a snapshot of the time
 
 

Some time ago, a few years before he passed away during the first covid wave at 96 years old (he was playing golf six months before!) I received a collection of coins from my grandad. He didn't tell me much about them at all other than that he enjoyed collecting and ordering them. As well as these there are lots, and lots of others I may have questions about but these are the boxed ones, some of which contain gold coins so if it's okay I'll post them here and ask later on the silver forum about the other peculiar individual silver ones he had (as well as loads of the old silver half crowns, sixpences and all sorts of other stuff). 

Any comments, advice etc on any of them are welcomed, even if it turns out some are copies, not collectable, junk etc. I won't take offence. I have just started going through them and find them fascinating. Looking to do a bit of collecting and stacking after reading up on it all and am looking forward to the journey!

There are a lot so I have created a shared an imgur photos album and have linked the main overhead shots of these selected coins/sets here as an overview. Can take more pics of reverses etc if it helps!  

Here is a link to the shared album with some shots of each set. https://imgur.com/a/drDpW5u


Thanks!

Great looking collection.
Although my grandad passed away 21 years ago, my mum only gave me his coin collection over the Christmas period, there was a few gold coins we knew about, but mainly it was all pre decimal stuff.
I found these web sites quite useful, https://www.predecimal.com/key_dates
https://www.allcoinvalues.com/index.html
Turns out he had a few rarer coins, but they were so worn they wouldn't be worth a great deal

There could be some gems in there. The 1905 shilling for example is well sought after. If near Uncirculated condition could be worth £1000 plus.  Not all coins are equal.  

I'm going to stick my neck out here and say that although the silver and bronze predecimal coins pictured above form a fascinating collection, I don't think they amount to a lot of value above scrap silver.  But that's not really the point, it's a journey through time and just think of all the people who will have used those coins to buy various things over the decades and centuries.
Definitely post up what dates you have on the pennies and other bronze.  But use those two websites that I linked to earlier, that will give you an idea if you have anything significant.
Your toned 1887 silver coins in the cased set are very nice though and perhaps worth between £200 and £300 between them 🙂

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

Sounds a collector not a secret gold stacker.. the sixpence list looks interesting.  Not sure what happened to the shilling collection , as it appears he stopped after 3 coins. ? Condition is everything with old coins. If they are bright and shiny that's not necessarily a good thing as they might have been harshly cleaned , a no no for collector's generally speaking.