that was nice of her!
When my dad passed away, I inherited what was left of his coin collection...he had at one time a St. Gaudin's $20 gold piece and 100 silver dollars, mixed Morgans and Peace dollars, but all that stuff got stolen a couple years before his death. I wound up with 10 rolls of circulated wheat pennies and several silver commemerative halves....one 1893 Columbia Exposition and 3 Arkansas centennial coins....one with the Indian design and two Joe T. Robinson designs, all pulled from circulation by him when he worked at the bank in Hot Springs National Park. The wheaties he had rolled and labeled...1909 to 1919, 1920 to 1929, etc. Has his handwriting on the paper rolls, so I will never unroll them and look at them....means too much to me to see his writing.
But it is great to inherit coins. I have a few I started after he passed..his 1902 birthday set, my b-day set 1949, my wife's 1953 and my son's 1989. Plus I bought a number of silver proof sets during the 50 state quarter run. Bought a few gold $5 coins off ebay back when gold was $350 an ounce...shoulda bought a LOT more! LOL Also got a few silver eagles dated 1999, 2000, 2001 cause I liked the change of the millenium!