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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3167409, member: 19463&quot;]I agree with Z but I know I am too sentimental about my coins to do twenty or even two hundred right now.&nbsp; I would feel good if I could get down to two thousand.&nbsp; The problem could be enduring the hurt feelings when selling things for $1 now that I paid $5 for decades ago.&nbsp; To avoid this, I have given away a few coins in that category on the theory that zero from someone who might benefit or even appreciate the coins would be better than a dollar from some entrepreneur intending to slab them in no name plastic and hawk them for $29.95 to the unknowing.&nbsp;&nbsp; A dealer friend of mine at a Baltimore show had a plate with a couple hundred late Roman coins at $2 &#039;you pick&#039; mostly for the walk up kid traffic.&nbsp; Some guy walked up and bought the whole plate without even trying to negotiate a lower price.&nbsp; He admitted the coins were for mass market slabbing (not NGC grading but the &#039;other&#039; kind). </p><p><br /></p><p>The decision to dispose of the collection before we pass on will save the kids who don&#039;t care the hassle but will make us have to face the reality of the fact we had too many coins that no one wanted.&nbsp; I&#039;m not sure I am ready for that quite yet but might be closer with each passing birthday.&nbsp; If I had any sense, I would stop buying more but I doubt that will happen anytime soon.&nbsp; Good homes are hard to find.&nbsp; I&#039;d prefer my coins were sold for less to some kid interested in ancient times than for more to someone laundering his ill gotten cash.&nbsp; When we sell, we have little control.&nbsp; I really do hope the rest of your collection will go to good homes.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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