What is the best way to ship coins? I am soon going to be selling off (bit by bit) my father-in-law's collection. His widow wants $$$$ to spend. How do I package, say, single coins or groups of maybe 6 coins?
Well, I haven't done it much, but when I have shipped out single coins or small groups, I put the coin in a holder, fix the holder to something so it doesn't slide around too much, and then package the coin in a bubble wrap envelope. Of course, it depends on the value of the coin in some respects - you don't want to pay two bucks to ship a three dollar coin, unless the buyer is willing to pay those fees. But I think this method allows for a low level of shipping damage possibility.
Shipping What rick said is good If the collection is large there are coin shippers- corogated cardboard that coins can be placed in before shipping other wise use a bubble envelope with the coins secured or wrapped in somthing to prevent it from slipping DO NOT mark "coins" on the outside of the envelope. This is an invitation that says steal me! If you have to label the envelope for example shipping outside of the country or for insurance purposes the best way is to mark it Numismatic materials. or medals or metallurgical product. You want to protect yourself and your buyer from outsiders knowing that either of you have "coins" on your premises.
Plain Brown envelope To avoid attention my foreign coin magazine is sent to me via one on my favorite dealers. He always puts it in a plain brown padded envelope. It cost me just a few more dollars a year to do it this way rather than a normal subscription, but it also keeps me in contact with what is now a friend not just a dealer.
Thank you for your replies... What is exacly is suitable? do i need to go to a coin supply place and pick up something? or is there some common household thing i could use? Not a problem (as i told the local coin dealer) -- Not my coins!
Well even if they are not yours you still have the responsibility (SP?) to get the coins to the buyers just as they were when you sent them. I would be careful and use a bubble wrap envelope----if you are mailing lots of coin to the same place place them in a bubble wrap envelope and then in a Flat Rate $3.85 envelop you can get at the post office. Speedy
It is a collection from my father, and he was a arheologist in museum in Croatia. Collections have 140 pieces of diferent coints I have here coins from :Roman Empire, Yugoslavia, Austro-ugary, Hungerian, and some of them are like medallions not coins. So it is collection from Europa, this all are old coins, and you canb use then now for buy stuff. I can send you a pictures from coins on your e-mail, and descriptions. I have (2 pengo from 1941, 10 filler from 1915, 1 spenning from deutches reich from 1929, 50 dinara from Yugoslavia from king petar from 1938.......and so on some are ancient coins from Romans time 10 century) i would like to sell a whole collection, but I dont know how. i live in Croatia.
