Roll Of BU 1964 Nickels

@lesin

You mentioned that I might get an average of 2.50 a nickel. So that would mean $100 for them all? So then why could I expect just $12-$20 if I sold it as a whole? Anyways I'm going to go through it and look for the any extra water line's. I'll repost if I find any.

I would guess around 200-500

That's correct. It may take you a year or two to sell 40 coins individually. Most of the time groups of coins, coin sets, rolls etc. will bring you a much better return if sold separately but it can also take a long time to sell all the coins individually.

Here's a true example. I purchased a roll of 2003P Magnetic (CPS) Old Effigy pennies for $5.00. I paid $4.50 above face value. I broke up the roll, searched through it and am now selling the individually pennies for $4.75 each. I offer free shipping so once you take off the shipping costs, ebay fees, PayPal fees it works out to approx. $3.00 per penny. Now some of the pennies were toned or scratched so I finished with 37 nice MS pennies.

37 X $3.00 = $111.00 is the profit off a $5.00 roll of pennies. Now the trick is you have to be extremely patient as it may take me a couple of years to sell them all.

It is very time consuming and it you are in no hurry to make some money from your roll of nickels, selling them individually for a couple of dollars each will bring you a far greater return than selling them as a roll.

But after that being said, you scored on 2 spitting queens so I wouldn't worry about the rest of them. Depending on the grade are looking at $50- $250 each. Carson3333 was a little high.

Or I should buy them all from you qbvbsite :)

Let's not get too carried away, I put them on 5 coins at a time. I've sold 12 coins thus far at that price so still have a long way to go before they are all gone.

Don't want to get off topic, but in all my experience with ebay, selling singles is the way to go. I've done year sets in the past for pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters and loonies and I just didn't find it worth my time. I had several people email asking me for a single coin as it was the only one they needed for their collection. Through trial and error I've found that a buyer will pay $2.00 to $5.00 for one single coin to fill a hole before they will buy a set even at a much cheaper price as they don't want all the other coins.

you will get next to nothing at the coin dealers..Hence the word COIN DEALER their in it to make money not spend it so dont expect to much....

@lesin I tried singles when I got my first few rolls of colored quarters and they didn't sell to much... I have actually found that sets sell much faster. Also now that I got about 150+ rolls singles really isn't an option... Sets are the only way I'm going to move my inventory in my lifetime.

..and qbvbsite will tell you, that I do better with selling mint rolls...