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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ewomack, post: 4639725, member: 15588&quot;]Yes, that&#039;s sad for &quot;Grampa Jones.&quot; He tried, but just because you leave something to your descendants doesn&#039;t mean that your descendants will actually want it. Coin collectors sometimes assume that <i>everyone</i> appreciates the value and history of their collections, but not everyone does. Well, they may appreciate the <i>value </i>and sell it immediately upon receiving it.</p><p><br /></p><p>My family has had coins distributed from passed on relatives in the past few decades, but since these relatives typically saved only pocket change, most of it has little to no monetary value and so the recipients lost interest in it almost immediately after finding this out. Their sentiments for their lost relatives didn&#039;t extend to coins. Some did appreciate these relatives&#039; other possessions though, such as furniture, pictures, letters, personally signed books, etc. Pocket change doesn&#039;t always have an obvious personal connection to an individual. For the most part, we had no idea why the people saved what they did. It all just seemed like random piles of old change.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for handing these bills out to kids in my family, I already know that they won&#039;t appreciate them. $1 or $2 really doesn&#039;t buy much these days and they haven&#039;t reacted at all to old money, or really to anything old, in the past. These ratty bills don&#039;t have a chance, because they have to compete with things far more stimulating to today&#039;s young sensibilities. These kids have their own mobile phones, after all, and they react more to branded gift cards than to cash.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not trying to be depressing, but the reality is that not everyone appreciates old coins or bills, even when handed down from a relative. In the case of my own bill stack, I have a pile of old bills obviously taken from circulation. I don&#039;t know exactly when or why the person saved each bill. I know that one person had collected them into a pile, but I never discussed this pile with the person. I didn&#039;t even know that these bills existed until they passed on. I have no idea if the pile even meant anything to the person when alive. So I&#039;m really left with an anonymous pile, out of which I found a few things to save. Obviously, I struggle with this, otherwise I wouldn&#039;t have rambled on so much (sorry), but, in the end, the bills or coins are not the people and these &quot;things&quot; can never replace them. They are just symbols of varying value to various people. In my experience, people typically want the money that valuable heirlooms can bring, they don&#039;t want the things themselves. Then they can do with the money what they please. Perhaps that&#039;s sad, but it&#039;s something that I&#039;ve seen over and over again.</p><p><br /></p><p>I do feel for poor &quot;Grampa Jones.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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