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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mike Thorne, post: 8401225, member: 56869&quot;]Loved this, and I can definitely understand where you&#039;re coming from. I&#039;ve definitely reached the age when I&#039;m thinking seriously about what to do with my collection. We don&#039;t need the money as the state retirement system for public employees is ridiculously good. My pay for many years was pretty bad, and I actually got a raise in take-home pay when I retired.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, what to do with the coins? None of my potential heirs has any interest in coins, and even though I&#039;ve given my wife instructions about what to do with them, it wouldn&#039;t be easy for her. I haven&#039;t mentioned Great Collections to her, but I can see that I should. I was surprised that no one here mentioned DLRC as they&#039;re honest and seem to have some good auction selling policies. Anybody have any experience with them?</p><p><br /></p><p>I sold some coins years ago through Heritage, and I used to buy from Heritage but don&#039;t do it anymore, as their fees are too high. Also, when buying from them they collect state tax where I live and that adds an additional 7% to a coin&#039;s price. And don&#039;t get me started about their shipping charges!</p><p><br /></p><p>I also sold some coins through Teletrade, but they no longer exist.</p><p><br /></p><p>I do have some thoughts about the price differential between the 16-D 10c and the 21-D 50c. Even though the mintages are similar and favor the 21-D, the truth is that lower-denomination coins have always circulated more than higher-denomination coins. Thus, there would likely be more 21-D survivors relative to 16-Ds because of the denomination. Where I&#039;ve lived, the halves were much easier to find. I once bought an accumulation of W-L halves from a student in one of my classes, and they were almost all common dates except for an AG-G 21-D.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sorry to be so long-winded, but the OP&#039;s question and responses to it triggered a lot of thoughts. I would second the idea about keeping any coins with sentimental value.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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