There comes a point in every collector’s life when he or she is faced with a terrifying thought: When should I stop adding to my collection and start getting rid of it?
If you have heirs who are interested in collecting coins and would be good custodians of your collection, this is an easy question to answer. You’ll just keep adding coins until either dementia or death catches up to you.
But what if you don’t have any interested heirs? What do you do in that case?
At this point, a lot depends on the value of your collection. Does it consist primarily of relatively modern coins? Proof or mint sets you’ve bought from the Mint? Modern foreign coins with little or no bullion value?
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