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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RScott, post: 270708, member: 9998&quot;]<span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">Thank you all very much for your replies, and for welcoming a newbie like me. Seems like I innocently stepped on a bit of a hornet’s nest here with the dealer vs. do-it-yourself auction topic! Sorry, didn’t mean to be controversial (but I can see why it would be), and I can definitely see the potential benefits and costs of both approaches. I certainly have no problem with someone making a FAIR profit. I may try a little bit of both approaches to start to see which feels better. I have also ordered a 2008 redbook based on your suggestions…just to get ballpark estimates.</font></span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">A point of clarification: Regarding the “slabs” I said I have, I think I may have used the wrong term. While some of the coins are enclosed in a true sealed slab produced by PCGS, most of them are in what a newbie would call a plastic protective container. Here is a sample of the non-PCGS container I’m talking about: </font></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana"><a href="http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/4020/img1345fk3.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/4020/img1345fk3.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/4020/img1345fk3.jpg</a>. </font></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">Looks like I can just open it myself, but I’m kind of afraid to break something by trying.</font></span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">More questions, if you don&#039;t mind:</font></span></p><ul> <li><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">I’ve heard conflicting advice on whether it makes sense to get the coins graded or not if I want to auction them. Would love to hear more thoughts on this. Seems like $30 (appears to be the going rate) could be a decent investment for coins that appear to be worth a lot. And does everyone feel comfortable shipping very valuable coins to PCGS and assuming they’ll come back with no hitches? That’s placing a lot of trust in PCGS (and the US postal service for that matter).</font></span></li> <li>If I wanted to sell coins on an auction site (or on this site) without getting the coins graded, I obviously want to have good photos. Here are a couple samples I just took. Do you think these are good enough, or do you have suggestions for improving them? (I took them with a Canon 5 megapixel digital camera on tripod in “macro” mode): <a href="http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/5243/img1343ns2.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/5243/img1343ns2.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/5243/img1343ns2.jpg</a> and <a href="http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/7862/img1344qz8.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/7862/img1344qz8.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/7862/img1344qz8.jpg</a></li> <li><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">Regarding finding a good dealer, I am in the Marin County area (just north of San Francisco). Is there any consensus on a few honest and knowledgeable dealers in this area?</font></span></li> </ul><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">Thanks again for your advice!</font></span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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