Spring Cleaning Your Coin Collection: PART 3

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

In my two previous columns, I’ve been talking about spring cleaning your collection/accumulation of coins. So far, I’ve talked about the importance of organizing your coins and having a good inventory. I’ve also talked about selling some of the coins in your collection, such as “orphans” (coins that are oddballs and don’t fit your collecting interests), junk coins with some value and partial sets that no longer interest you.

At the end of my last column, I talked