Specimen Coin Mintage

Get a copy of the 2011 Charlton guide that has a large number of large cent varieties in the back. Check and see if you have some of them .. they are priced. Then check out any additional varieties/ID's on this site: http://www.coinsandcanada.com/coins-prices.php that will give you some idea of what you have. If you live close to the border, bring them up to Canada to find a buyer via the 4-5 coin sites. There are some dealers in the US who specialize in Canadian large cents (common and scarce) like Dale Schaffer in Tulsa. Or go to the buy and sell of some of the coin sites where you can sell, and not with ebay fees, your coins to fellow collectors .. but you may have to make xxx number of posts or length of membership) before you are eligible.

I also have Vicky large cents in the thousands and a fellow hoarder. I just like to look at them and help others. I'm game if you are selling Vickies.

Wow, that sounds like a pretty neat collection you have, I look forward to seeing some pictures.

If it was me, I would think about a few key questions first.

a) How much time do you want to spend sorting/selling?
b) If you don't "need" the money, will you try to maximize return (long game), dispose at a reasonable price or bulk sell at low price to get rid of them?

If you are going for medium/longtime sale, a copy of Charelton,as other have said, is a must.

1. Sorting by year is good and I would identify which years are the more valuable ones/cost benefit of time searching/examining vs. value. (eg. 1858, 1859, 1881, 1891 etc...)
2. I would then roughly grade them into piles G-F, VF-XF, AU/MS.
3. Pull out any high value coins (whatever that effort/value threshold is for you) and sell individually (maybe TPG if really valuable)
4. Make some interesting date sets by monarch out of the lower grades and sell them on ebay at a fixed price/make offer
5. Whatever is left over, sell in bulk, with 3-4k coins you can probably make quite a few interesting sets.

Have fun with that, I am a little jealous, I have always wanted to pour over something like that, it must be fascinating. There is a lot of good advice and ideas on this forum, it has really helped me figure things out over the last few years.

if you post clear photos that can be enlarged on ebay we wont miss any varieties lol
the coin will sell itself
there are few of us that have a passion for collecting vickys some already posting in this thread.
i too would be intersted in them as well

I agree. I've been trying to cherry pick a few varieties from photos and apparently other people do this too, because everytime I find one I get wildly outbid (I normally set my bid limit around 50% catalog value).

thanks for the info JHax! that's really interesting to hear about the 1911..

also ridge, would you shoot me an email through the forum? i'd love to talk

Thank you everybody for the advice on the large cents., I'm gonna see if I can find that book on ebay and just look for the better varieties, am not gonna live long enough to look through every one of them. I also have a couple thousand old copper Canadian tokens that I would like to research.
...I'm trying to figure out how to post a picture on here., I dont see anywhere to click on to attach a picture ?

i look forward to seeing