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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 8004963, member: 74282&quot;]There&#039;s no shame in selling your collection. I recently had a discussion with several other collectors on the subject and in most situations, selling before you die is probably preferable to leaving it to your heirs. After all, after collecting for many years, you presumably have a better handle of which coins should go to auction, which are better to sell yourself or maybe consign to a retail dealer, along with knowing who gets the decent prices and ideally you&#039;ve got some relationships built you can use.</p><p><br /></p><p>One of the things I&#039;ve learned about collecting ancient coins in the few years I&#039;ve been collecting is that my personal collecting tastes and interests do change and selling has been not only useful but an actual necessity. When I first started collecting, I collected a little bit of everything, though I had a special interest in Ptolemaic and Judaean coins. Then I decided I liked the Roman Republic and while I started out with Imperatorial and other late Republic issues, I quickly became fascinated with the Second Punic War and my collection is currently heavily weighted toward that period. If you looked at a snapshot of my collection circa late 2015, I&#039;ve sold most of what was there, including over half of the Roman Republic coins that I either upgraded or decided just weren&#039;t quite up to snuff for the standards I was trying to set, and I&#039;ve sold everything that was there that wasn&#039;t Roman Republic.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Abafil trays are highly recommended if they fit your collecting style. Expect to spend something like $2-3 per slot by the time you buy trays and cases. They take up more room than envelopes or flips but there&#039;s nothing quite like being able to examine a group of coins in trays instead of having to open a flip or envelope for each one, especially when you&#039;re sharing and discussing coins with other collectors. That said, my collection grows slowly, 20-30 coins per year and the average price is about $200 each. If I collected coins that were $5 each it probably wouldn&#039;t be worth the cost to store them all in trays, and if I bought 100 coins per year I&#039;d probably try to find alternative storage as that would quickly take up a whole lot of space.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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