That's entirely up to the individual. Some of my friends have every single thing of interest or value that they have ever found. They don't give away or sell anything. They have got a safety deposit box full of old coins or boxes at home and it is theirs to show off. Others don't give a hoot about having a collection of anything, as soon as they get a little accumulation of old coins, they go to a coin dealer and sell them off. It varies tremendously from individual to individual and of course the modern coinage that we find almost all of us own a rock tumbler and you put your dirty coins into the rock tumbler with water and little bit of hot gravel and one drop of strong soap and you tumble it for 30 to 45 minutes and the coins come out pretty clean. They are not necessarily shiny, but at least they are clean. The coins that I find in a park or yards around here, I could not take to the local bank and turn them in, because they are dirty. The bank won't accept it. I would clean them up with that rock tumbler and then the bank will take them. Every fall, I turned in my modern coinage that I found and it's usually around $150, but I got to clean it up before the bank will take it. I take the kids toys, little cars and all those things and take them to the lady that runs a school and she is delighted to have them. The kids are thankful; they usually wreck them before too long, but I keep bringing them new ones.
