@oldhvymec - if some of your hundred of pounds of coins are indeed rare you may actually be making money by holding on to them and not losing out to inflation.
I would recommend going through them to pick out the potentially valuable ones and bring them to a coin dealer. The "regular" ones are costing you to hold them every day. Even if you don't care about money, you must have heirs or a charity you can give it to.
I hate wasting money, but love enjoying it. As I get older, there are less things I like or like to do or need, so I just figure my kids will get it when they like more things than I do now. My stereo investing is very sensitive to the law of diminishing returns. The $59,000 cable buyers are living in a Monopoly money world. There has got to be better uses of $59K in the world than buying some cable. The law of diminishing returns was true for that many many thousands of dollars ago regardless of how great sounding a system is.