The question “What’s it worth?” will be frequently answered on Sunday afternoon by members of the Timmins Coin Club and the Timmins Stamp Club.
They’re holding a joint event where you can have any coins, bank notes and stamps evaluated. You might even be able to make arrangements to sell them.
Coin club program director Orest Lawryniw clears up a misconception.
“Most people seem to feel that the older the coin, the more valuable it is and it’s not the case,” he points out. “It’s usually the vintages, how many were made, errors and things like that.”
Lawryniw says a couple items are the rarest and most valuable money he has ever seen.
“A 1948 silver dollar which in a minimum is $800 of value. Also what we call a Princess bank note is a $20 bill with Queen Elizabeth when she was a princess from 1935.”
There’s no admission fee for “What’s it Worth?”. It runs from 12:30pm to 4:30pm at the Timmins Public Library main branch on Second Ave.
