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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 8305848, member: 27832&quot;]<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie78" alt=":punch:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s a guy at our local shows who is my go-to guy when I want to sell common Morgans. Here&#039;s why.</p><p><br /></p><p>I take him batches, with some culls, some circulated problem-free, some low MS, and occasionally a nicer MS, all raw. He classifies them and offers a price for each class. It&#039;s low enough that he can still make some profit selling them, but consistently higher than anybody else I&#039;ve tried to sell to.</p><p><br /></p><p>At one show, when silver was pretty low, he was going through a roll or two stating how much he&#039;d offer for each -- $18, $18, $16 (wire-brushed), $20, $160, $18... &quot;Hang on, back up&quot;, I said, &quot;what was that $160?&quot; He handed me a circulated 1881-CC that I&#039;d mistakenly put in with the others. It was still a fair price, but I wanted to hang on to that one.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>THAT&#039;s</b> the guy I go to, and that&#039;s the guy I direct friends to.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, having said that, if by $3000 &quot;retail&quot; you mean &quot;Red Book prices&quot;, I&#039;m guessing $1.5K is probably the <i>ceiling</i> for what you could expect to get. I don&#039;t know your experience level, but if you haven&#039;t been buying <i>and</i> selling for a while, you&#039;re likely to get some bad surprises where a coin you thought was MS-63 is actually cleaned and ungradeable -- or even surprises in the opposite direction, where something you thought was nothing special is actually highly desirable.</p><p><br /></p><p>You&#039;ve got your first experience now trying to sell the collection. You&#039;ve also learned something important about that dealer -- at my most generous, I&#039;d say he has very poor attention to detail, at least when it comes to making honest offers. Try some others. Try shopping the coins around at a show, where dealers know they&#039;re competing with one another. DON&#039;T bother with pawn shops (I&#039;m sure you already knew that). Do consider using the BST forum here.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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