What will you do with your collection eventually?
1957joe
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I've often thought about what I eventually do with my collection. Hopefully before I "check out" of life I will give a lot of it away to an interested collector. Whether it is one of my children or somebody I don't even know yet. Some of them were passed down to me so without question those will go to a family member. Who knows, maybe I will just sell them and LIVE IT UP!
What are your thoughts on what you will do?
Joe
What are your thoughts on what you will do?
Joe
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Russ, NCNE
<< <i>Interested collector ... Whether it is one of my children or somebody I don't even know yet. >>
Definitely, in some sense, I would like to keep them in the family of collectors.
Morgan Dollar Aficionado & Vammer
Current Set: Morgan Hit List 40 VAM Set
sell them and live it up! I'am having a blast in retirement selling my collection on ebay.
wally
Joe.
One dealer, who passed away recently, was a really great guy. He sold me some coins at his cost because we had a good rapport and he knew what I was trying to collect. He did not try to cheat anyone that I know of.
I really miss my friend... and not because I got some great deals, but because he was honest and a real afficiando of the hobby! Wish there were more like him.
<< <i>OK, really though the bulk of it will be passed down to our daughter, hopefully they will stay in the family for many years. >>
Ditto.
<< <i>Have my entire collection melted down and used for my casket... >>
Great transactions with oih82w8, JasonGaming, Moose1913.
Give them away to my forum friends when I get tired of looking at them.
I used to deal with Bayments of ease, but no longer!
Look, research, look, and research together, then look if dealing with a dealer
09/07/2006
<< <i>When I'm on my death bed I'll crack them all out and give them as tips to the nurses. Russ, NCNE >>
Hey Russ, Can I be your nurse. I know where to put the thermometer.
I am tending towards simplification of my collection concentrating on classic coin rarities....
Stuart
Collect 18th & 19th Century US Type Coins, Silver Dollars, $20 Gold Double Eagles and World Crowns & Talers with High Eye Appeal
"Luck is what happens when Preparation meets Opportunity"
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Coin collecting is not a hobby, it's an obsession !
New Barber Purchases
Now, wont that be nice.
Camelot
A good thing.
The coins we own are only ours for the time we are here, but the selling and acquiring of them will place
them in the hands of other folks who care about them. We are only temporary caretakers as they pass among
us.
Perhaps the units of the collection will meet with their previous neighbors in new collections as they pass
down that road.
The important thing is that they will survive, they will be found, and collected again in a larger cycle, until
either the species is done for, or the Sun goes Nova, no matter what we do in the limited time we own them.
A collector who has yet to be born will someday look at them under an antique glass to appraise the grade
and appreciate the history.
Enjoy, and be confident that no matter what happens, they will survive long past ourselves!
The other 1/3 I will keep for our 12+? grandchildren - one due in a few days and two more in a few months. In the meantime, I will continue to collect, and will try to teach the grandchildren about coins as they grow old enough to understand and appreciate.
It was a very fun project, and now I hvae something very concrete that catalogs and showcases my collection virtually. Hopefully it will provide my heirs with an insight into how I collected and will make the coins in my collection more than just some round pieces of metal.
no friends to give them to
no family to give them to
the collection ain't worth much anyway
if i die before mom she won't know what to do with them
prolly just throw them away
I am well on the way with my 2 year old. She love to hold and carry around her monies!!!!
About once a month or so, I'll pack my walker in the Dodge and head out on the Tamiani trail doing 18 MPH in the passing lane........ I'll be slumped down in the seat so that only the top of my fedora appears to be over the steering wheel......... I won't be able to hear the horns or screams of fellow motorists since the batteries in my miracle-ear are long since dead.......... I'll stop at the piggly-wiggly for a prune slurpee and then go off to the local coin store where they look at me like I'm crazy because I tell them of the coins I "used" to own....... I'll poke around and maybe sell a 100 0z bar or two............ Then maybe, I'll hand a coin to a youngster I've seen there before........ like a seated dollar, or a Saint............ The shopkeeper will go nuts wondering what else I've got stashed away, the kid will be happy, and by that time, the prune slurpee will be kicking in so I will have to go !!!!!!! Crazy old man, I think not !!!!!!!!!
3 "DAMMIT BOYS"
4 "YOU SUCKS"
Numerous POTD (But NONE officially recognized)
Seated Halves are my specialty !
Seated Half set by date/mm COMPLETE !
Seated Half set by WB# - 289 down / 31 to go !!!!!
(1) "Smoebody smack him" from CornCobWipe !
IN MEMORY OF THE CUOF
I would like to document the collection well enough that it would become a family heirloom to be passed on to a single collector in the family for multiple generations.