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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Eric Babula, post: 26216428, member: 85976&quot;]I&#039;m looking to sell off a bunch (somewhere between 500 and 1,500 coins) of raw, lower-to-mid-grade (say, AG-3 to EF-40), common-date coins. I&#039;d like to organize them to make it easier for someone to put prices on them. Obviously, first tier is to put them into groups by type. Second tier is to put each type in order by date/mm. But, third tier to me would be to put them by &quot;bulk&quot; vs more &quot;special&quot; (for lack of better term) coins (e.g. coins that will get me only melt or bulk value vs coins that would get a higher price for numismatic value). I&#039;m assuming dealers have some sort of system or cheat-sheet where they&#039;ll just count up your coins and give you melt value (or some percentage under melt value) or bulk rate (say, $0.80 per coin), vs at some point (is that VF-20?), they&#039;ll give you some percent under retail value. I understand that they have to make money, so I&#039;ll get some percentage under, say, numismedia.com or Greysheet prices, so I have no grand illusions that I&#039;ll get the listed prices for raw, common-date coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>I quickly chatted with a couple local dealers to see if they could guide me in how to organize my coins to make it easier/quicker, but they just told me to bring in the coins and they can evaluate them and give me prices.</p><p><br /></p><p>What do you say? As a dealer, or maybe someone who has sold lots of coins to dealers, what grade is the breaking point that determines whether the dealer would count coins and pay bulk price vs looking at each coin individually and applying a price to each individual coin?</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, what could I reasonably expect for those &quot;bulk&quot;, common-date/mm coins?</p><ul> <li>Steel Cents</li> <li>IHC&#039;s</li> <li>Liberty Nickels</li> <li>Buffalo Nickels</li> <li>War Nickels</li> <li>Barber Dimes - assuming melt value is $2.40</li> <li>Mercury Dimes - assuming melt value is $2.40</li> <li>Roosevelt Dimes - assuming melt value is $2.40</li> <li>Washington Quarters - assuming melt value is $6.00</li> <li>WLH&#039;s - assuming melt value is $12.00</li> <li>Franklin Half Dollars - assuming melt value is $12.00</li> <li>Kennedy Half Dollars - assuming melt value is $12.00</li> <li>Morgan Dollars - assuming melt value is $33.00</li> <li>Peace Dollars - assuming melt value is $33.00</li> </ul><p>Would I be right to assume I&#039;d get about 80% of melt value from a dealer? 90%? 100%? Are there any I should NOT sell for melt value? What&#039;s a reasonable bulk rate to expect for the others (not silver)?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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