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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4285315, member: 110350&quot;]If I somehow manage to survive the next few months here in New York City (given my vulnerable status due to pre-existing health issues, wholly apart from being 65), I hope to be around for at least a couple of decades.&nbsp; That said, I have only one child, my son, and my coins -- like my antiquities and all my other worldly goods -- will go to him.&nbsp; He is obviously free to do with them as he wishes, and I&#039;m sure a lot will depend on his financial situation at the time.&nbsp; (As he&#039;s a PhD student in Art History, and hopes to go into academia, neither of us anticipates that he&#039;ll ever be wealthy!)</p><p><br /></p><p>However, assuming that he doesn&#039;t have to sell everything immediately, I think he&#039;s far more likely to want to keep the antiquities -- which he&#039;s always loved looking at ever since he was a small child -- than the coins, in which he hasn&#039;t shown quite the same interest.&nbsp; So I suspect that he may end up keeping a few of the ancient coins that he particularly likes, and selling the rest along with all of what remains of my old collection of British coins and historical medals, and other world coins and medals.&nbsp; To assist him in whatever he decides to do with the coins, I&#039;ve been very careful to keep a detailed inventory of all my ancient coins on my computer, along with photos, as well as keeping all invoices and printed-out sellers&#039; descriptions (with photos) in a 3-ring binder, plus coin tags underneath each coin in its tray, with sufficient information on them to find the fuller descriptions in the inventory and find the invoice/seller&#039;s description/photo in the binder.&nbsp; I&#039;ve done pretty much the same with the antiquities.&nbsp; In speaking to dealers of both coins and antiquities, I&#039;ve heard them talk about how often they&#039;re faced with reviewing and appraising disorganized and uncatalogued collections at the request of heirs who have no idea what&#039;s there.&nbsp; I don&#039;t want my son to be in that situation.</p><p><br /></p><p>I haven&#039;t thought of recommending any particular dealer(s), because of the continual need to make sure that any such recommendations are up to date, but maybe I should.&nbsp; (I also really need to update my inventory of non-ancient coins, medals, etc., to cross out all the ones I sold a number of years ago.&nbsp; Otherwise, my son is going to be very disappointed when he&#039;s unable to find all those British gold coins going back to James I that I used to have!)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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