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Spring Cleaning Your Coin Collection: PART I

Editor’s Note: This is the first installment of a three-part series that originally appeared in Mike Thorne’s “Basics and Beyond” column in Coins magazine in 2019.

As I write this, it’s the middle of what used to be called winter where I live. Temperatures are mild, we’ve had only a few frosts, and it just doesn’t feel like winter. However, I know that spring will follow, although I suspect that some of the plants in my yard think it’s already spring.

By the time you read this, I suspect it’ll be time for spring cleaning where you live.

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