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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;emtoucan, post: 80080, member: 4459&quot;]Hi all,</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve been reading these forums for a few weeks now trying to answer questions and get some ideas, but thought the best solution was probably to just write it all down.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have recently been give a huge collection of coins by my father-in-law.&nbsp; He was colecting coins between 1950 and 1985.&nbsp; The collection is massive (at a very rough guess 10,000+ coins, but could be much more&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> ) ranging from single coins, to mint sets, to unopened rolls.&nbsp; Fortunately he has documented the whole collection in a book.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>He has asked me to sell the entire collection so that he can give the money to my wife and her brother as an inheritance, but I just don&#039;t know where to start.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Question 1) The first task is to get the collection onto some form of database.&nbsp; What do you recommend?&nbsp; </p><p>I&#039;ve looked at those available but many people say it&#039;s best to just keep an excel spreadsheet.&nbsp; The idea of entering everything onto a spreadsheet is very daunting and I&#039;ll have to buy a book with the information in anyway.&nbsp; Something where all the basic information is there already and I just select the coin and put in quantites would be helpful.&nbsp; The Coin Collector&#039;s assistant looks good for this.</p><p><br /></p><p>Question 2)&nbsp; When I sell, is it best to keep a) sets together and b) rolls together, or break them down? </p><p>I&#039;m assuming to keep them together is best.&nbsp; Also I have some complete sets of sets.&nbsp; For example, I have every mint set issued by the Vatican for the entire reign of Pope Paul VI.&nbsp; Should I sell these together?</p><p><br /></p><p>Question 3) How to sell?</p><p>The decision I&#039;ve come to is it&#039;s probably best to work out those coins/sets of value and try to sell these myself on e-bay, and then sell all the other coins in bulk to a dealer, or in bulk on e-bay.&nbsp; Any suggesions?</p><p><br /></p><p>Sorry for the very long post, but I would really appriciate your help on this.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>By the way none of the coins are American and 70% are Italian.&nbsp; Any other questions?</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks!!!!![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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