My brother used to collect all sorts of coins when we were kids and save them in a shoebox. I always spent every coin that I could get my hands on, so I have no old coin collection like he does. I heard him telling my mother that he was looking to sell coins from his collection to start a college fund for his daughter. I asked him why he would just not keep it and when it was time for her to actually go to college, sell coins then.

My brother thinks that for some reason coin collections fluctuate in value and right now, a few of his pieces that he has are worth more than they have ever been before. He is afraid of holding off selling coins and then in turn actually losing money. I guess that since he is the expert in this field, I should probably stay out of it. If selling coins now could get him more money, then that is exactly what I would do too.

The whole discussion has made me which that I would have been better at saving those coins when I was younger. I will probably have to go into serious debt when my daughter goes to college, and my brother will just have it all saved and then some, thanks to his coins.