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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 63398, member: 57463&quot;]<b>Think outside the box.</b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Never mind the coins.&nbsp; Tell us about the COMPANY.&nbsp; It looks like a tremendous display.&nbsp; Figure the coins are all common.&nbsp; From the list, I&#039;ll be that not one is &quot;worth&quot; more than $20.&nbsp; That is totally irrelevant.&nbsp; If you focus on the <u>coins</u>, you miss the value in the <u>holder</u>.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>That &quot;house&quot; (temple, I&#039;d call it) and those cards are priceless.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>What will happen is that these will end up in garage sales or taken to coin dealers who will bust them apart for the $20 coins.&nbsp; Any set complete, whole, and intact, will be worth more over time as the others succumb to attrition.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are stories of people finding ancient coins in jars and busting the jars to get at the coins and having archaeologists wail because the jars were worth way more than the coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>The NUMISMATIC BIBLIMANIA SOCIETY studies holders and folders as part of the collecting of &quot;coins&quot; that people overlook, the way we used to overlook books about coins -- until it dawned on someone that a book by a U.S. Secretary of the Treasury about early U.S. coins might actually be valuable someday...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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