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Spring Cleaning Your Coin Collection: PART 2

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

Last month, I discussed the desirability of creating an inventory of your coins if you don’t already have one. At the risk of belaboring the point, let me tell you briefly about the “collection” I’m currently helping with.

Not long ago, a man my wife had worked with died following a brief illness. I had talked to him a time or two after church and knew that he was a big accumulator of all manner of things,

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