Time To Stop Collecting

I'm doing the same. After almost 60 years, I'm thinning out the herd. While I still collect, my interests now are extremely narrow.
I've been sending my certified coins to Great Collections and one lot to Heritage. I find GC to have great customer service, lower fees and faster settlement than Heritage. For ICCS and raw, I've been selling on facebook groups directly to other collectors, which is working out ok.

@justanothercoinaddict: Understandable. At 80+ I have slowed down my pursuit of collectable Canadian coins and have been purchasing Silver Maple Leaf bullion. Having 9 great-grandchildren, there is no dearth of those to "spread the wealth". .

On one hand it's sad to see a collector leave the hobby, but on the other hand, it frees up some potentially interesting stuff for the rest of us still collecting. I get it though, you can't take it with you and it makes sense to dispose of it instead of leaving it to non-collector heirs. Even if you no longer collect, please continue to share your knowledge with others.

Your post says you don't have any heirs.
It doesn't say you don't have any heirs that are interested in the hobby.
If you have no heirs at all like your post reads then why do you want to quit?
Go hard until you die and then it doesn't matter.

Pacificoin I have to agree with you on silver coins. With silver at US$35 most Elizabeth and George VI silver is just bullion these days. I have sent lots of silver half dollars to melt for the good of the hobby. I think I am doing all of us a favour by melting common date silver coins. It just tightens up the numismatic supply......eventually.

jbuck, don't be sad. I've been a collector for 62 years, minus a few hiatuses. I'm not rolling up the sidewalk and crawling into a hole - I'm just expanding on some other interests and redirecting whatever capital I am able to walk away with into those interests.

Bosox, I'm not sure that the USD/CAD imbalance will ever correct itself in the messed-up geopolitical stew that constitutes the 21st century. I bought a large portion of my collection when the CAD was near par, if not even. It's having an impact on sales I've done so far but I should still recoup a fair portion of my investment.

Phil, I've been collecting Canadian since 2005.

Hondo Boguss, it never occurred to me to sell through the forum. I need to look into the tariff situation to see how that might impact sales to Canadian residents.

Hunter, it's better to quit while it is still fun.

For whatever it might be worth, I posted all of my certified Canadian and Newfoundland coins on the PCGS World and Ancient Coins Buy, Sell and Trade message boards, in case anyone is interested in what is eventually going to market. 16 pieces have been spoken for out of the batch.

The remainder are being consigned to Great Collections (except for the 1910 Edwardian Leaves fifty cents) and will be dropped off to them at the Summer FUN show in Orlando, Florida in July. I'm not sure how long it takes for them to show up at auction. I'm still on the fence as to the disposition of the raw coins.

Good luck!