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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 2956966, member: 71234&quot;]<i>I want to sell/auction the coins, however I need to understand the official process to sell/auction old coins.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>There is no &#039;offical&#039; process, you just offer them for sale and people buy them or not, depending on the items offered and their perceived value. There is no need for any certification, it is usually pretty obvious to any experienced collector if the coins are real or not. In most of the world, the US style grading services are unknown, so this is not something needed or useful if you are not selling on the US market.</p><p>If selling online, your success rate will depend on the quality of your pictures and description, more than any &#039;certificate of Authenticity&#039; which is easily written and printed off and generally not worth the paper it is printed on.</p><p><br /></p><p>Most modern coinage, which could be said to be anything later than 1900 to 1950 depending on who is saying it, was produced in huge numbers and with little or no intrinsic value from precious metal. </p><p><br /></p><p>If your grandfather paid good money for the coins he collected, then you probably have some valuable items now, but if he simply accumulated anything that took his fancy when it came along for next to nothing, you may have coins you could give to your children to play with.</p><p><br /></p><p>Clear pictures of some of the coins would be essential if you want some specific help with what you have.</p><p><br /></p><p>When posting poctures, resize them on your computer to about 600 to 800 pxels across, multi megabyte pictures will not post, and use the &#039;upload a file&#039; button by the &#039;Post Reply&#039; button below your new post.</p><p>Posting as &#039;full image&#039; is preferable to posting as thumbnails which is the default choice.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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