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<p>[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 4603129, member: 110350"]I've never sold, or tried to sell, an ancient coin. (Not even the handful of drecky LRBs I bought for about a quarter apiece when I was 8 or 9 years old!) But over a period of a few years starting about five years ago, when I was unemployed and my savings were dwindling and I was pretty desperate for cash, I sold most of my more valuable British coins and historical medals, accumulated over a 30-year period, to Stack's Bowers. (I couldn't afford to wait the months that it would take for Stack's to put them up for auction and pay me the proceeds.) Nor could I afford to take the time to sell them myself one by one on Ebay! I ended up receiving about 35-40% of retail value. Which, given how many years previously I'd bought most of them, was still about equal to what I paid. It was enough to pay my rent on a New York City apartment, and other expenses, for more than a year. (Although I try not to think about how much all the gold coins I sold -- dating back to the early 1600s -- would be worth now, especially given how much the price of gold has gone up in the last five years!) </p><p><br /></p><p>But this is a very different situation. It's only one coin, and I'm no longer in a financial position in which I'm forced to sell.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 4603129, member: 110350"]I've never sold, or tried to sell, an ancient coin. (Not even the handful of drecky LRBs I bought for about a quarter apiece when I was 8 or 9 years old!) But over a period of a few years starting about five years ago, when I was unemployed and my savings were dwindling and I was pretty desperate for cash, I sold most of my more valuable British coins and historical medals, accumulated over a 30-year period, to Stack's Bowers. (I couldn't afford to wait the months that it would take for Stack's to put them up for auction and pay me the proceeds.) Nor could I afford to take the time to sell them myself one by one on Ebay! I ended up receiving about 35-40% of retail value. Which, given how many years previously I'd bought most of them, was still about equal to what I paid. It was enough to pay my rent on a New York City apartment, and other expenses, for more than a year. (Although I try not to think about how much all the gold coins I sold -- dating back to the early 1600s -- would be worth now, especially given how much the price of gold has gone up in the last five years!) But this is a very different situation. It's only one coin, and I'm no longer in a financial position in which I'm forced to sell.[/QUOTE]
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