Thinning Out My Coin Collection

In my quest for completeness, I accumulated a large amount of coin albums that I "HAD" to fill.  Not only did I try to fill the labeled holes, but I bought blank Dansco pages to add early proof and the satin mint set coins from 2005 -2010.  My the collection I was building was fairly nice, but I started running into several problems.

The collection was growing too large.  The space required to properly store my coins kept growing.  This included needing to keep purchasing new albums and totes to store them.  Next brings the issue of weight.  Everything was getting too heavy.  It was a chore to even look at my albums.  Pulling out all of my bins and find the albums I was looking for was too much.  I didn't even want to look at the coins anymore.

Ike Crazy!

A couple of years ago, I was on a roll finding U.S. Mint Sets for below face value on eBay.  Worst case, I could cut up and spend the coins for a profit.  I ended up doing that to many of the coins while I built nice collections of some and sold others.  Below is a photo of Eisenhower (IKE) Dollars I purchased for about $0.80 each.  Several of these are still in my collection today.