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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2891805, member: 19463"]If you really want to help your museum and trust their management to do the best thing for the museum, sell your collection in the open market and donate the money to the museum without restrictions. IF they want to make an exhibit of your coins, you could allow them to remove from the sale coins that they want to 'buy' realizing that the cash they will receive in the end will be reduced by the value of the coins they chose not to sell. If they choose to spend your money on things you would not have considered appropriate (funding a curator for TV memorabilia comes to mind) perhaps you chose the wrong museum. If they decide to spend the money on a display and staff to devote to those few coins they retained from the sale and placed a single case devoted to your coins in a corner of the museum, you have done better than I can imagine ever happening.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2891805, member: 19463"]If you really want to help your museum and trust their management to do the best thing for the museum, sell your collection in the open market and donate the money to the museum without restrictions. IF they want to make an exhibit of your coins, you could allow them to remove from the sale coins that they want to 'buy' realizing that the cash they will receive in the end will be reduced by the value of the coins they chose not to sell. If they choose to spend your money on things you would not have considered appropriate (funding a curator for TV memorabilia comes to mind) perhaps you chose the wrong museum. If they decide to spend the money on a display and staff to devote to those few coins they retained from the sale and placed a single case devoted to your coins in a corner of the museum, you have done better than I can imagine ever happening.[/QUOTE]
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