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Message:: [QUOTE="68thandpark, post: 24497878, member: 146521"]You are considerate to be thinking of your heirs as you make this decision. Eight years after my father died I have just recently gotten around to selling off a collection that my grandfather left to him and the additional U.S. Mint products that my dad bought in later years. A set of 20th century silver coins in an album is not so hard to sell ungraded. The Peace dollar album my sister and I inherited did not include nearly as nice a 1928 as yours but we were satisfied with what we got for the unbroken set, which sold on eBay for close to $1500. A Morgan dollar collection in albums has entailed a whole lot of research to pick out the coins worth consigning to an auction house that would get them slabbed before sale. After that we're left with lots of coins with values in the $35-65 range. Any collector should ask himself whether he will be passing along a valuable legacy to his family or a lot of time-consuming "de-collecting" work that they didn't ask for. I have mixed feelings, since I was a coin collector as a kid but gave it up, only to have a big collection land in my lap decades after the collector (grandpa) died. Now that I am retired I can get a little enjoyment out of the process of passing along the inherited coins to people who actually want to own them. But it would have made more sense (including financially) for the collector to have done this while alive. Stuart[/QUOTE]