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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RaceBannon, post: 1308707, member: 25357&quot;]Welcome to CoinTalk!&nbsp; In answer to your questions:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>1.&nbsp; If you are going to list the coins on eBay, you&#039;ll probably make a little more money listing them individually.&nbsp; But since it sounds like most of them are going to sell for melt anyways, it will be much less work to sell them as a lot.&nbsp; You can set a minimum bid or reserve, but with a group of coins that are going to sell for their silver melt anyways, I&#039;d recommend you start the bidding at .99 cents and let the market determine what they will sell for.&nbsp; As long as you list them correctly,&nbsp; they will go for very close to spot on the day the auction ends.&nbsp; </p><p>Right now that means you should get around $300 total for the lot of 135 merc dimes or $2.25 ea with silver at $30.90.&nbsp; Here&#039;s the link to my favorite silver coin melt value calculator:&nbsp; <a href="http://www.silvercoinstoday.com/silver-calculators/us-silver-coin-calculator/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.silvercoinstoday.com/silver-calculators/us-silver-coin-calculator/" rel="nofollow">http://www.silvercoinstoday.com/silver-calculators/us-silver-coin-calculator/</a></p><p>This link gives the silver melt price for US silver coins on any given day based on current spot price.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>2.&nbsp; Accurately assess the value of your coins.&nbsp; You should probably do this step before you decide to sell any of your coins. The easiest and most fun way to do this is to buy a 2012 RedBook &quot;Guidebook to United States Coins&quot;.&nbsp; For around $12.00 this handy guide will help you identify your coins and give you retail prices for all your coins based on grade.&nbsp; It makes cataloging your coins easy.&nbsp; Two things about the RedBook; </p><p>1. the values you will see listed for your coins are estimated retail values, so they are a bit higher than the actual sale prices you will probably realize for your coins should you sell them.&nbsp; Probably a more accurate assessment of real price of your coins is to check eBay for the actual ending price on auctions for coins similiar to yours.</p><p><br /></p><p>2. You will need to learn to accurately grade your coins in order to assess their value.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>By going through your coins individually and cataloging their value using the RedBook, you will ensure that you don&#039;t accidentally put a rare or valuable coin up for sale at melt prices.&nbsp; </p><p>But therein lies the fun, you&#039;re searching your collection for that potential treasure hidden among the common coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Good Luck![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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