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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 7598857, member: 110350&quot;]Despite being in my 60s and having some serious long-term health problems that contributed to my early retirement, I do hope to be around for a while. And I only started actively collecting ancient coins 3 1/2 years ago -- never for a moment for investment purposes or with any intention ever to sell them absent dire financial need. So I give no thought to their disposition. I carefully catalog each coin I buy in a list on my computer (the source of the descriptions I post, including those lengthy footnotes!), and keep receipts, photos, etc., both on my computer and printed out and placed in 3-ring binders, for my own purposes and to make life easier for myself.&nbsp; Facilitating any post-Donna disposition is purely a side-benefit.</p><p><br /></p><p>I do the exact same thing, for the exact same reasons, for my antiquities collection, and have done so on an ongoing basis for the last 40 years.</p><p><br /></p><p>I trust my son (who will be taking the oral portion of his comprehensive exams for his art history PhD program tomorrow up in Toronto; please send some good karma his way!) to decide for himself what he wants to do with the coins and antiquities when the time comes (I suspect he&#039;s far more likely to want to keep the latter, which he&#039;s admired since he was a small child) and to seek out good advice whatever he decides. The most I may ever do, if I feel that time is growing short for me or perhaps even the next time I&#039;m seriously ill or hospitalized (it&#039;s been three years since I was last in the hospital and two since I was last seriously ill, knock on wood), is make some suggestions for good coin dealers to approach if he decides to sell.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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