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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Hookman, post: 3253755, member: 99642&quot;]I use plastic Coffee-Mate and Maxwell House containers.At first I just collected pennies. I marked the tubs with searched and unsearched. As I gathered enough &quot;oddities&quot; to matter, I separated them into various sub-groups such as Doubles (or what I considered doubles, mostly machine doubling), Tones, NAs (non aligned or rotated), errors, etc.. When I first started with silver, I simply marked them with American Silver or Foreign Silver.(BTW, I still have my first silver acquisition , a NORFED $10.00 ounce coin. That acquisition is a story all by itself.). Then, as my collection grew, I divided them by country. As it grew I added a tub for ounces, rounds and bars. I added tubs for exonumia, for militaria, for all kinds of sub groups. I have collections of silver spoons, silver medals and other military decorations such as marksman awards, silver cups and goblets, silver candle snuffers, almost anything made of silver if I can get it at melt or near melt.</p><p>I buy a lot on eBay and have saved the &quot;One Rate, Any Weight&quot; shipping boxes for odd shaped stuff.</p><p>etc., etc., etc..</p><p>I have approximately 40 containers of coins and.....stuff.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, as to what I&#039;m going to do with it.</p><p><br /></p><p>My parents raised 8 children and when they passed, dad first then mom, they left nothing behind except for a small medicine bottle of old coins, none of them special, that my mom wanted me to have.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have 2 daughters and 3 grand kids. So when I&#039;m gone , I want to leave as many coins as possible for them to fight over.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>No , seriously , I just want to leave something for my kids and grandkids. My parents wanted to, and tried to, but couldn&#039;t.</p><p>I think, like most folks, we all want to do at least a little better than our parents did.</p><p><br /></p><p>And JCro, thanx for asking what, for me, is such a poignant question.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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