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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2747448, member: 10461&quot;]Really, though, what I would do if this were my coin, is get a slightly better picture of it, hang it out there on eBay at a 99c starting bid, and let &#039;er rip.&nbsp; It&#039;ll find its own value that way.</p><p><br /></p><p>For a 50c-plus-eBay-fees investment, I don&#039;t see how you could lose.&nbsp; But alternately, you could go the BIN/BO route, instead.</p><p><br /></p><p>Really, this is not one of those coins that HAS to be certified.&nbsp; Would that help sell it, since it&#039;s a key date?&nbsp; Maybe.&nbsp; Maybe not.&nbsp; I dunno.</p><p><br /></p><p>I cherrypicked a better-date 1870s Danish coin with a catalog value in the low- to mid-$100s about four years ago (it had cost me about 10-20 cents in a bulk bag, very much like your now-famous &quot;tub&quot;).&nbsp; I hung it out on eBay raw.&nbsp; Can&#039;t recall what it sold for- not full catalog by any means- but I was happy.&nbsp; I think it did just barely reach $100-ish.&nbsp; I don&#039;t think it would&#039;ve fetched that much more in a slab, because I slabbed the next-best one out of that lot (there was <i>another</i> nice Danish piece in there), and that one did OK in the slab, but really not as well as the one I sold raw.</p><p><br /></p><p>So don&#039;t feel like you <i>have</i> to slab it.&nbsp; Sell it as-is, and you&#039;re basically in that pure-profit sweet spot no matter what.&nbsp; And then you haven&#039;t laid out $35-40+ for slabbing.</p><p><br /></p><p>That &quot;almost-pure-profit&quot; thing is the beauty of cherrypicking bulk lots of world coins here in the USA, where lots of people ignore the &quot;foreign junk&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.ebay.com/gds/Cherrypicking-coins-Two-1877-Indian-cents-for-8-00-/10000000001425218/g.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ebay.com/gds/Cherrypicking-coins-Two-1877-Indian-cents-for-8-00-/10000000001425218/g.html" rel="nofollow">I&#039;ve been at the game a long time.</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Sometimes the cherrypicking and swapping and selling can really reap dividends.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s fun AND educational.&nbsp; And with some work, profitable.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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