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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 1824656, member: 112"]I'm not really sure what your question actually is. Do they make organizers for slabbed coins ? Sure they do, they range from slab boxes, which is what most people use to keep slabs in and organized; to pocket sheets that can hold anywhere from 6 to a dozen or so slabs and then the sheets fit in a 3 ring binder.</p><p><br /></p><p>Or are you asking about how to go about selling an album full of coins as 1 single sale ? If so, yeah people do that all the time. But it really depends on what you are trying to do - get as much as you can for the coins, or sell them the easiest and fastest way you can.</p><p><br /></p><p>Selling an entire collection, or even an album full of coins, can be a great deal of work and take a long time if you try sell them one by one. And unless you have a known presence or reputation as a seller, you may have a difficult time doing it or getting top dollar. But there are always plenty of good dealers out there who will offer you fair price for your coins and take them all at the same time. And by the time you figure in fees and shipping and everything else, selling the entire collection to a dealer will often end up giving you close to the same amount of money as if you had sold the coins one by one. So selling to a dealer is usually what I recommend that most people do.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for getting the coins slabbed and then selling them, very rarely is that ever a good idea. And for a couple of reasons. First of all the costs. Getting each coin slabbed is going to cost you about $30 per coin, or more. Do the math, getting a 100 coins slabbed is $3,000, plus shipping and insurance. And when it comes to the average collector which is what most people are, about half the coins or more in their collection won't even get slabbed because they are problem coins of one kind or another and the owners don't even realize it. And probably most of the rest aren't worth getting slabbed to begin with, they just aren't worth the expense. A coin usually has to be worth $200 or more to make it worthwhile - and most aren't.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 1824656, member: 112"]I'm not really sure what your question actually is. Do they make organizers for slabbed coins ? Sure they do, they range from slab boxes, which is what most people use to keep slabs in and organized; to pocket sheets that can hold anywhere from 6 to a dozen or so slabs and then the sheets fit in a 3 ring binder. Or are you asking about how to go about selling an album full of coins as 1 single sale ? If so, yeah people do that all the time. But it really depends on what you are trying to do - get as much as you can for the coins, or sell them the easiest and fastest way you can. Selling an entire collection, or even an album full of coins, can be a great deal of work and take a long time if you try sell them one by one. And unless you have a known presence or reputation as a seller, you may have a difficult time doing it or getting top dollar. But there are always plenty of good dealers out there who will offer you fair price for your coins and take them all at the same time. And by the time you figure in fees and shipping and everything else, selling the entire collection to a dealer will often end up giving you close to the same amount of money as if you had sold the coins one by one. So selling to a dealer is usually what I recommend that most people do. As for getting the coins slabbed and then selling them, very rarely is that ever a good idea. And for a couple of reasons. First of all the costs. Getting each coin slabbed is going to cost you about $30 per coin, or more. Do the math, getting a 100 coins slabbed is $3,000, plus shipping and insurance. And when it comes to the average collector which is what most people are, about half the coins or more in their collection won't even get slabbed because they are problem coins of one kind or another and the owners don't even realize it. And probably most of the rest aren't worth getting slabbed to begin with, they just aren't worth the expense. A coin usually has to be worth $200 or more to make it worthwhile - and most aren't.[/QUOTE]
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