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<p>[QUOTE="Eric Babula, post: 26048849, member: 85976"]Let's assume one has a bunch of U.S. coins that they want to sell (pairing down their "collection", hopefully for a profit, of course). Ok, let's give it a number - say 500ish coins (plus about 3,000 Wheat Cents). Let's assume they all are relatively "low-value" coins (ranging from $0.01 to $299.00, but 80% are under $25.00 in value).</p><p><br /></p><p>If you had a large-ish lot of coins to unload, would you just go to your LCS and let them give you a price? Or, would you take the time to put on ebay to sell for hopefully a better price? Or, other options? I'm assuming that a coin show is NOT the right venue to bring this kind of stuff to. Are there Auction Houses that deal in these kinds of collections?</p><p><br /></p><p>What happens to silver that is sold "at melt value"? Does your LCS keep and resell most of that? Or, do those coins actually go somewhere to get melted?</p><p><br /></p><p>What would you do?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Eric Babula, post: 26048849, member: 85976"]Let's assume one has a bunch of U.S. coins that they want to sell (pairing down their "collection", hopefully for a profit, of course). Ok, let's give it a number - say 500ish coins (plus about 3,000 Wheat Cents). Let's assume they all are relatively "low-value" coins (ranging from $0.01 to $299.00, but 80% are under $25.00 in value). If you had a large-ish lot of coins to unload, would you just go to your LCS and let them give you a price? Or, would you take the time to put on ebay to sell for hopefully a better price? Or, other options? I'm assuming that a coin show is NOT the right venue to bring this kind of stuff to. Are there Auction Houses that deal in these kinds of collections? What happens to silver that is sold "at melt value"? Does your LCS keep and resell most of that? Or, do those coins actually go somewhere to get melted? What would you do?[/QUOTE]
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