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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;romismatist, post: 8481697, member: 44106&quot;]I would echo a combination of what others have already stated. The high value stuff will do better at auction (but you will have to deal with seller&#039;s fees and sometimes quirky bidding) and the low value stuff is probably better through EBay or other sites. There are specific auction houses which specialize, so you may want to research that aspect (ie Artemide Aste for Magna Grecian coins, or Stephen Album for the Near Eastern stuff). Catawiki may be another option for the better quality material or Facebook, which I haven&#039;t really explored myself yet. </p><p><br /></p><p>I did once try to sell a small subset of my collection to a local dealer but he only offered some crazy low number which would have put me significantly underwater. I did wind up selling to another dealer but still at a slight loss. In retrospect, I probably would have made more money selling those coins individually through EBay, especially if I would have waited. </p><p><br /></p><p>I used to sell regularly on EBay some time ago but have since stopped as it is a lot of work preparing and listing auctions. In addition, it&#039;s a real buyer&#039;s market as all the risks lie with the seller. If the buyer doesn&#039;t receive the coin, EBay can pull the money paid back from your account and refund the buyer, and you&#039;re out both the coin and the money. It may not happen often, but it does happen. Like auctions, sometimes the prices surprise you, both positively and negatively. I have had stuff sell for lower than I paid for it, and other stuff sell for much higher than I paid. If you have really low-value stuff, it&#039;s best to sell as a lot because with shipping costs and taxes automatically added in by EBay it may not be worth listing individual coins separately.</p><p><br /></p><p>So in summary: higher stuff at auction (research houses if you have specialty sub-collections), and lower stuff through EBay.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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