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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TheMont, post: 2913665, member: 80121&quot;]My daughter has a friend whose husband passed away. The husband was a coin collector (read coin hoarder). Apparently he cashed in his better coins before his passing and didn&#039;t tell his family. I spoke to a coin dealer he had dealt with and the dealer told me he has purchased quite a few expensive coins from him.</p><p><br /></p><p>My daughter asked me if I would look through his collection and help dispose of the coins. The next thing I know a car pulls up in front of my home and drops off five cartons of coins. There were a few good ones there, but the majority where common coins and a lot of Lincoln cents. I spent a month, off and on, going through the collection and trying to organize it. I rented a table at my coin clubs semi-annual coin show. Word spread on why and whose coins I was selling, so a good deal of people just stopped by the table and handed me twenty bucks and moved on without taking any coins. By the end of the show I had close to $3,000 for a collection that really should have brought in less than $1,000.</p><p><br /></p><p>I called the wife and told her to stop by, I kicked in another $500 for what was left and when she arrived I told her I had sold the collection for $3,500. She was upset, she felt that I should have been able to sell the collection for more money. I told her it was worth a lot less than what I got, but club members were just giving me money without even taking any coins. She walked out upset over the &quot;little&quot; money she got for her husbands collection. Moral of the story? No good deed goes unpunished.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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