Kevine84 Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 I obtained a 10 lb original lead sealed bag of coins from the Binion Horde. I wondered if anyone had a good procedural recommendation other than my initial thought of immediately opening the bag and releasing the mystery. While that sounds fun I know it might be rather foolish to do that. I know because I did it with Collector F1 cars, guns and crazy stuff back in the CEO days when I had it rolling hard. Now I am more prudent ( cars all gone and no more shooting 1 of 100 guns for fum:() It IS fun but t IS stupid too. Any sage advice - I thank you kindly in advance for the insight. I HAVE to open them, that's just me. But how do I do that right? Would I just have them authenticated and graded? I've gotten great help here as I learn and I'm sincerely hoping for more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JKK Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 I don't know what a Binion Horde is, but if I were going to open a sealed bag of potentially valuable coins, I'd get some cloth gloves and a bunch of Saflips, so that I could most efficiently get them all into protection without screwing them up. Then I'd reach in and pull out one coin at a time, give it a look, and if it deserved to be in a flip, put it there. Repeat until I had them all out. Then I'd make decisions about authentication and grading. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crawtomatic Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 Based on this coinweek article https://coinweek.com/coins/certified-coins-news/pedigrees-hoards-the-binion-hoard/ all of the hoard was purchased by one party and submitted to NGC for grading already. How did you come across a sealed bag attributed to this hoard? Does the provenance line up on that? kbbpll 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevine84 Posted December 11, 2019 Author Share Posted December 11, 2019 The answer is that I must read better. It was not the Dollars. t was almost all quarters. Thanks for the feedback. I posted a Type C thread question in the newbie forum. Thanks K Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...