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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3872010, member: 19463&quot;]I prefer to believe, whether I am naive or not, that someone with Clio&#039;s resources would select a museum that would make proper use of the coins rather than squirreling them away in a basement.&nbsp; Many museums would do this on one condition.&nbsp; In addition to the gift of the coins, there would have to be a cash grant to allow construction of a proper facility AND funding in perpetuity of a number of staff positions to curate, maintain and secure the coins.&nbsp; If the coins add up to a few million dollars, the annual income from the grant would have to be at least that much to make the museum willing to undertake the task.&nbsp; The coins selected by Clio strike me as rather well thought out and suitable to put an institution on the map in this one specialty.&nbsp; I have no idea what might be the current market value or what it would cost the house and curate them.&nbsp;&nbsp; Most museums have to pay their bills from entrance fees or small change benefactors.&nbsp; Funding an annuity that would cover a building/maintenance project,&nbsp; two PhD&#039;s and a small staff (6?) of assistants would attract the attention of&nbsp; some university or municipal museum.&nbsp; They don&#039;t want my coins not as much because my coins are junk but because there is not a continuing income from them making it worth their while to forget these are &#039;just coins&#039;.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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