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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Skyman, post: 7678787, member: 28299&quot;][USER=119337]@waterfallice[/USER]&nbsp; With all due respect, in my ever so humble opinion, people who save collectible items for their heirs are idiots.&nbsp; MOST, but certainly not all, heirs will sell off the inherited items as fast as they can. As such they will almost certainly receive less than the items are worth.&nbsp; The only exception to this is if THEY are collectors of the same sort of items, and would enjoy KEEPING the items.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a world class space artifact collection.&nbsp; I&#039;m now 63, and, barring accidents, war etc., given family genetics I can probably look forward to living into my latter 80&#039;s.&nbsp; Given that, I plan on selling off my most valuable items (as well as a majority of other items) when I hit 80.&nbsp; It&#039;ll hurt to sell them, but I&#039;ll have enjoyed owning them for many years.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just before I sell these items I will ask my kids if there are any items in particular that they like, and if so I will pass the items on to them.&nbsp; Otherwise the most valuable items (and a lot of &quot;stuff&quot;) will be sold, with one or two exceptions that I think are no brainers as far as financial &quot;instruments&quot;, to be held as long as possible in family.&nbsp; (For example, I own the Apollo 12 flown Flight Plan, in essence the log of Apollo 12.&nbsp; The Apollo 11 flown Flight Plan has already been sold page by page, so my Apollo 12 flown Flight Plan is the earliest COMPLETE Moon Landing flown Flight Plan IN HUMAN HISTORY).</p><p><br /></p><p>Buy what you like and enjoy it.&nbsp; See if your kids AS THEY GET OLDER, e.g. 25+ years of age, enjoy those sorts of items.&nbsp; If they don&#039;t, and you want to maximize your inheritance bequest to them, then sell the items.&nbsp; If they don&#039;t, and you still enjoy the items and there is not too much of a chunk of your financial worth tied up in them, then hold onto the items FOR YOURSELF.&nbsp; If your kids do enjoy the items, then so much the better, they will be good custodians of your coins, and enjoy them for themselves.&nbsp; Enjoy life, as they saying goes, you can&#039;t take it with you.</p><p><br /></p><p>With regards to cracking the items, I&#039;d crack the Details coins and keep the 61s slabbed.</p><p><br /></p><p>HAVE FUN with collecting!!![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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