What if you accidently fell into a SARS infested swimming pool with your mouth open and DIED.....

SethChandler

is your family prepared to handle your collection?

1)Did you leave instructions on where to sell?

2)If your family keeps your coins, do they know the value of each coin, and how to preserve them?

3)Do they know WHERE your coins are? Safe deposit boxes at several banks is common.


Seth

LucyBop

May they play some Bo Diddley and the Danderliers at my funeral.

FC57Coins

Seth - that's SICK!!!

Tassa

Ok, now I know what my favorite SethChandler question is.

ursabear

OK Seth, I'm going to take this as a "is your family prepared to deal with your collection" question.

Yes
Close, but not really
Yes

I must say that I hope that they come here for advice.

Tassa

I've only been collecting for a few months and the value of my collection is only around $1,000. I don't have any instrunctions on how or where to sell the coins. My husband knows where the coins are, but does not know how much each is worth.

Note to self-avoid public swimming pools in areas where cases of the SARS virus have been reported.

airplanenut

I'm allergic to chlorine so I rarely swim... problem solved

mdwoods

I have a small thermo-nuclear device embedded in me by aliens. If my heart stops for over 5 minutes, KABLOOOOWIE!!!

lava

Aside from Seth's preference for dramatics, this is another advantage of having your sets registered, becuase dealers should be able to give a ballpark range based on bluesheet, and even more so if the deceased had bothered to include images.

Seth, rest.

ElectricEye

was the swimming pool heated?

carterhaines

Sorry, my SARS infersted pool has grown too much algae so I had to get rid of it. On the other hand, both my shark and lava pit are still open for swimming (no diving in the lava pit, its too shallow [Hey, do you know how much lava costs these days?!?!])

abuell

<<What if you accidently fell into a SARS infested swimming pool with your mouth open and DIED.....>>

You'd no longer be posting here - you'd be posting in the open forum where all the brain dead people go.

Stork

Finally, a SethChandler question I get to answer!!

Okay, maybe not SARS, but if something happens...

I periodically torture my huband with where all the accounts, investments, insurance type things are, but now that you mention it, he would be clueless about the coins (and now that I think about it, the 529 plans too)

Of course for the sake of the marriage, perhaps it is good he is clueless while I am still alive, or he would wonder at how much money I have spent, and might insist on buying a titanium frame bicycle.

Maybe a good compromise, I will tell him to check this forum and contact about 10 people to see if anyone is interested in properly disposing of the coins for a good percentage (say 20%). I'll give him a list. If nothing else it will give a few people here who have given me some help a chance at my stash.

joejeweler

Even hough i'm divorced......my ex-wife(and hence my kids who are listed as beneficiaries) knows which bank safe deposit box my coins are resting in. I keep them within the Intercept Shield individual slab holders within the Intercept shield outer box within a double zip lock bag system that includes a can of silica gel.......all inside the air conditioned HUGE bank vault!

Within that double bag is a copy of EACH INVOICE of where i purchased each coin. They'd be blind not to be be able to figure out ballpark coin values from that!

I might suggest everyone keeping an invoice with your stored collection also. Sure couldn't hurt......and might prevent a loved one from getting taken on a super lowball offer from a lowlife taking advantage of the situation type dealer! You know who you are!!!!

Ain't gonna be no "rip" here!!!! (or i'll come back and "haunt" your A$$!)

Oh Seth........i'd suggest you keep your mouth closed while swimming in a public pool. Sars or no sars.........dem kids PEE in da pool!!! LOL

jonesy

No.

SethChandler

Really, I'm serious. Does everyone have a plan in PLACE that will help their heirs with your coin collection? How many times have we heard about a carefully built coin collection that took the owner years to assemble only to be dumped by the kids in a local coin store that was found in the yellow pages for 20 cents on the dollar?

Seth

sinin1

I'm glad you are serious about something - my thought was SARS is a virus spread via airborne particles, which would make catching in a swimming pool difficult unless you breathed the water which would make drowning a much quicker death.

Conder101

<< <i>? How many times have we heard about a carefully built coin collection that took the owner years to assemble only to be dumped by the kids in a local coin store that was found in the yellow pages for 20 cents on the dollar? >>


And if they are going to rush into it without some thought or study that's all they deserve.

nickel

at the wake would be both sides of family first row right and left .
second row would be co-workers and acquintances
third to tenth row would be coin starved dealers .......

Bear

Whenever I go, however I go, Wherever I go,

Im taking my coins with me!!!!

lordmarcovan

I don't think SARS would survive in chlorinated water, so it would probably be death by drowning. Unless it was an empty swimming pool. Ouch.

Seriously, though, those are important questions, and they've been on my mind. I've told my wife who to contact; somebody she can trust to sell off my holdings in case of my untimely demise. (And he's slightly younger and in better shape than I am, so chances are, he won't kick off before I do.)

JRocco

That is a really good question. There is 1 dealer who I trust completely. My wife knows to just let him loose with everything and he will give her a fair shake.

dpoole

I've got everything on collector software: where I got it, how much I paid, how much it's (sorta) worth, etc. Pictures and everything. All the info's there.

My wife also knows who to call to help liquidate the collection responsibly if she can successfully make it look like a suicide.