America The Beautiful Quarters

The way I see it, you only live once. What you don't open today, someone else will years or decades in the future once you are no longer around. If anything, I guess it will be a fun project for someone 4 or 5 decades from now to open the packs and send the best coins to NGC or PCGS. Who knows, they may be worth something then. It's not like modern quarters are exactly highly collectable, so the day may come when Uncirculated examples might actually be worth something (today's junk might be tomorrow's treasure). The same could be said of the modern plated pennies, of which 99% or more will end up rotting away in the sidewalks or being thrown out as garbage. One thing for sure though, I won't live long enough to see that day come.

 

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Yes eventually one day they will be opened and most likely end up in a future Coin Star. When you take into account 20+ years of inflation, you are taking a beating.

 

True, but not all collectors do it for profit or with investment in mind. I can tell you if investment was my goal, my ancient collection would be limited to a few gold aureii or a handful of rare sestertii rather than hundreds of coins that will probably never appreciate more than the rate of inflation.

Many of us collect because it feels good and is personally rewarding. I leave the investing to my IRA retirement account and my stock investment account.

 

If investment was my one and only goal, I wouldn’t have a coin collection.

 

If investment is not the goal in this case, why would someone never open them?
You could wrap up a brick or a lump of coal and never open it also.

 

Collecting things is seldom purely based on logic. I've given up trying to figure out why people collect things. To some no collection makes sense at all, to others comic books seem rational, or coins, or toys, or campaign buttons, or dolls, etc, etc.

If I had a dollar for every time someone questioned my sanity for wanting to collect coins, only to find out they collect fridge magnets, or Pokemon cards, or mineral samples, or other such thing which seems rational to them but irrational to me, I'd have a fortune.

Heck, the way we collect coins is individual to each person. I know some collectors that only collect one type of ancient coin, or only one emperor, or only one specific period of history, etc. Whose to say their method is wrong and mine right, or the other way around? I can only speak for the method(s) that makes sense to me, but to each their own. OP's methods seem like madness to me, but he probably thinks I'm a mad man for spending hours upon hours researching the provenance and attributions of a single ancient coin.

 

I have seen them and will see some circulated coins. Now its just collecting and hoarding coins in OGP.

 

I have this album it's a keeper for sure! LOL!