Here are just three of the photos emailed to me. In your opinion should my friend offer these for sale as they are or break them down into individual coins for sale? Thanks.
Just have my phone to look at... Usually these coins of yesteryear type sets have polished/cleaned coins in them so selling as a set would be the way to go. I am like @baseball21 though and think the bottom set may do better pieced out.
I would offer the coins separately. While there are probably many of these around, as they were "pushed" onto the public for some time, I can see the best prices when sold individually, but maybe that's just me.
I can't see the dates or mintmarks but I'd say the first two should be sold as is. They look like common coins and there is an interest in the material the coins are in. Easy to frame like they are. The last set, again no dates or mintmarks but I would probably pull out the interesting coins and sell them separately. Then I'd either replace them and sell it whole or just sell with those coins missing if not a lot of value left.
I would sell them separately, maybe even get some of them graded, looks like a couple have some nice toning.
Thanks for all comments. My friend will bring them by in a few days for me to look over as best I can. I always feel awkward in situations like this, even though I know the friend has no real interest in the coins; he just wants to sell them. I had another friend contact me some months back to tell me that his 98 year old father had passed away, leaving him this large number of Mercury Dimes. He asked if I could help, then just decided to give them to me. None of them are the rare ones but they all have been out of circulation long enough to still have nice, visible dates on them. Added to my own, I now have around 100 of them, almost half with early dates.
