Such is the all too common and ignoble fate of a hard earned Life Hoard! We hear the stories all the time and sometimes even gain a small portion of the wreckage of progeny ignorance...Specifically targeted by numistmatists, pawn shops, silver bugs with ads running daily on CL and such... Evidently, Precious Metal Knowledge is not genetically transferred...
I suppose thats the thing with Coin Collections or any other kind of Valuable amassment of This N That.....Like we see on that Strange Inheritance show or Pickers...If you dont do this, your stuff is basically despoiled and offloaded by the Survivors ignorant Familial Vultures and quickly pist away on 'peppermint sticks and pennywhistles'...(dope)..
A fellow should understand, a Lifes Collecting Work should be sold about a year or two before they die, or given away to Kindred Spirits...This should be a fun and interesting activity! Relished and enjoyed!
Except nobody ever thinks they are gonna die...It would be nice to time it just right...Leave this Earth with what you showed up with, and nothing else but maybe shorts and a hat, that would be the ultimate success!...Life is all about Timing...the older I get, Death even more so..especially with unappreciative and ignorant Vultures in the Family circling overhead.
Just discussed this with the Wife yesterday...Its a lot of fun meeting appreciative young aspiring collectors that know the value of a persons Lifes Work, and then selling/giving it to them...The lively conversation and kindred fellowship is worth a hundred dollars!.....which is a 'Dinner and a Movie' now a days....Plus, I like to talk to strangers, and especially not Family...