Any coin experts here?

this will give you a rough guide to values plus there's a link to a guide at rating the condition.

http://www.coins-of-the-uk.co.uk/values/

Any coins from a certain year which say rare or unique and no prices means there hasnt been one sold to give a guide price so they will be the ones worth a small fortune no matter what condition they are in.

For example i found a 1797 penny in my GF garden once and still worth £25.
 
I love some of the replies in here :D

I think I've got some nice little earners in this collection. But they all need cleaning up. What is the best thing to use? I was thinking a can of coke overnight, problem solved, they'll come out like new.

I've got a lot of tiny little coins, halfpenny's I think. I've also got a couple that might be worth a bit. One is a Queen Victoria penny I think. Quite large. I'll post pics when I've given them a clean. So suggestions for cleaning most welcome.
 
You shouldn't clean them. Unless you know what you are doing, you will devalue them esp if you have a really valuable one.

If you are cleaning them just to keep and display them and don't care about value then coke, vinegar, citric acid or HP brown sauce all works a treat.

But cleaning with any of these methods knock up to 90% of the value off the coin.

A rinse in warm soapy water is about as far as I would go before taking them to a dealer. Even then no scrubbing!
 
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I've touched this coin. Last one to be sold went for £516,000 (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ward-VIII-struck-abdication-sold-auction.html).

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It is amazing to think where they have been. It's possible they were actually passed down through the generations as they were in the same box of stuff with the photos and medals that we have. Considering we have photos going back 6 generations they might have even handled these coins. Who knows. That's what gets to me. We've discovered some amazing history too. My wife's 6th Great Grandad fought in the Peninsular battles in the 1800s. We recently found his headstone in a local cemetery. He was like a real-life Sharpe, making it through 6 or 7 well known battles before Waterloo. We've also discovered that one of her relations was a rubber merchant and lived in Glasgow. We've actually got the original wedding certificates and things. It's incredible what her gran kept. Thank god she hoarded stuff that's all I can say.

lol, we've also discovered a blown Ostrich egg, dating back to 1800 and a fantastic tapestry thingy, which one of her ancestors made, showing the family line again dating back to 1800 odd. We've got WW1 medals, Boer war stuff, including written notes about the pending battles, bits from a Lee Enfield by the looks and various trinkets. This is from one box!
 
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