Do you know the approximate value of your collection?

and visa versa.

 

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I keep all my marketable coins in Quickbooks. The downside is I have to manually update the sell price. But, I do know how much I paid for each coin in inventory. I also track my expenses for the hobby. Needless to say, none of my charts show a profit. I am not much of a salesman.

 

I have Coin Elite, and easy and excellent program.

And reasonably priced, updates available

 

I don't track any of that. Everything will pass to my heirs at a step up in basis.

 

According to my inventory my primary collection consisting of 19th and 20th Century Type, half cents, large and small cents( US and Canadian), two cents and civil war tokens are worth $116.42 face value.

 

More than my wife knows

 

I probably will not put the value of my collection here. you did prompted me to make color copies of all my slabbed PCGS and NGC coins for their identification numbers in case they get lost or stolen. I know many of my coins will remain the same in common coins. I know my more rarer coins will go up in value. Not sure how high they will go... not really worried about that right now. I do think it is a good idea to have a list of where you bought the coin at... the date you bought it....and who you bought it from.

 

You are? Maybe I should leave you a bottle of bourbon. You'll need it!

Chris

 

Absolutely much, much less than I have put into the hobby!

 

...and your personal satisfaction is much, much, more than you ever paid.

Personally, I simply do not care. My heirs will worry about it. Its my hobby, my personal satisfaction. My wife and children are well cared for, so I am allowed to "waste money" on something that gives me pleasure. To the extent I leave a collection of some small value is a bonus for them, not a concern of mine really.

 

I used to keep a detailed list of my entire collection on hand-typed pages. I still have the latest copy, typed in the mid-1990's. Purchases made until 2010 centered on just US coins. Since that time, I keep an Excel spreadsheet.

 

Just about to say the same thing.

 

Not a clue, it will change day by day, I keep spending money, and the program to catalogue it all crashed, so I don't know what I even have.

 

A buck three eighty.

 

If you want to keep her, you'll probably want to leave it like that too.

 

Whatever someone will pay for it.

 

Here is some of my coin collection:

1942-S Walking Liberty 50c F
1952-S Franklin 50c F
1937 Wheat 1c F
2002 Italy Euro VF
2010 Canada 25c Unc
1928-D Wheat 1c VG

 

no, I'm not even sure what coins i own, or where they are.

 

Depends what you mean by "value." I can tell you what I paid for them, but not right off the top of my head (I'd have to go to my files for that). What could I get if I sold it all? No idea, but I do know I personally value the coins at more than that (otherwise, I would sell).

 

Face value of my 109 coin (so far) type set $24.735.