>>20187355>I'd assume you've been bothered by other collectorsI keep spares of the rare stuff just to trade or sell to others. In a lot of cases I either own the entire population of a single coin, or have owned all of them in the past. Picrel some of my spares for trading.
>but if they all now know you're taking them to the graveMy kids have no interest in the collection except as cash so I'll probably liquidate it eventually. If they sold to a dealer like me they might get $20 or $30k for it. If I sell the coins individually I can easily get 10x that or more. I don't resent the fact that dealers pay 1/10th of retail value since I do that myself, but I don't want my collection going out like that if I can help it.
>do you know how many tokens of each denomination would have to be bought as a minimum order size?just based on censuses I estimate the minimum order at 50 in my area. Some coins are known from more than 100 examples, but most are less than 50. I'm assuming in some cases almost every example ever made has been preserved or found. I also think a few of them were patterns or samples in cases where only one is known.
>I'm pretty sure I'd get burnt out if I was working a 9 to 5 in a museum basement conserving stuff i don't care much about. Doing it for myself is fuggin' awesome though, no pressure or performance anxiety or fear of ruining someone's treasures.I think I'd be the same. I've prepped a lot of fossils and I love prepping my own stuff and hate doing it for museum crap.
>and to the forgotten people that made it whose bones have long since turned to dust, but who still managed to preserve and transmit a tiny fragmentary proof of their existence via the artifact through thousands of years to greet me on this side of time. It's quite the feel man.I feel this so much. For me it's arrowheads and anasazi pottery. It feels almost like a trance when I hold something someone put so much time and skill into so long ago. An absolutely incredible feeling.