Before I start - I'm not religious, but I am spiritual (as cliche as that may sound). No solid foundation in anything, just an awareness and respect.
Here's my dilemma;
My Grandmother ❤️❤️ had a 5-gallon water jug. She would fill it with coins and each time, she would tell me, "When I die, I want you to have this."
It might not seem like much, but for me it holds immense sentimental value; each time she added coins, she was thinking of me ❤️ She even knitted a cuzzi for it including a little 'hat'! 😭❤️ [picture included]
I consider it to hold hundreds of her little blessings for me.
Anyways - several people in my life have encouraged me to cash it in, at a coinstar. I am ABSOLUTELY NOT going to do this. It seems gross - trading all of her blessings for like $200 bucks??
However, I have considered going through it to look for high value coins. Rare coins that might be worth something. I don't know if this is a loophole (which would make me a hypocrite, to be clear) or if it's fine.
My financial situation is... difficult. Not so difficult that I'm going to coinstar with this (EVER. Thank GOD) But difficult enough that finding a single coin and getting some money for it would be great.
The chance of finding a rare or value coin is pretty low. For that reason, I'm also concerned with even dumping out the coins to search.
Would it be like "dumping out her blessings"? Even if I put them back in?
Let me be clear: regardless of the value of any coin - I don't want to desecrate her blessing. That's the MOST important thing. If it's ok to look for valuable coins, then I would do it. But if it's a slap in the face to my loving grandmother's blessings for me, I will endure my financial struggle as I've been doing, looking for solutions in other ways and the jug full of blessings will remain in tact, undisturbed until the day I die.
I don't know. I don't have any spiritual leaders in my life to discuss this with.
TLDR: My grandmother left me a 5-gallon jug full of coins - but I consider them blessings and will be keeping this until the day I die. But, if I were to look through the coins, if I found a coin worth $$$, would selling a single coin be fundamentally different from cashing in the whole thing?
[reposting because I forgot the promised photo]