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The best place for a collector to sell - is to another collector. Local coin club collectors is a good suggestion...
"Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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Your father took years to accumulate that collection.....so yes, it may take years to unwind it to achieve the best return for yourself.....
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Pillar of the Community
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If you're going the appraisal route, only take the few items that are worth a great deal.
How to separate these?
Simple......you'll get plenty of help here.
Supply pictures (which you have) of everything and we'll tell you which items to have appraised (many items have already been identified as such).
Time is money with appraisers (I should know as I was once a jewellery appraiser) and you don't want a dealer/appraiser charging you for going through your items that have no extra numismatic value beyond melt, or easy to value items (such as Mint products).
Edited by doubleeagle59
03/20/2019 3:22 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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Thank you for sharing your fathers collection with us. Absolutely lovely collection. I guarantee every single person here wishes they had their hands on a wonderful collection like that.
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Pillar of the Community
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BaronVanAwesome: I sent you an email about the monthly coin club meeting in Hamilton and it's next Monday. Would you like to go and speak to a couple folks about your coins? Please PM me to let me know. B
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Pillar of the Community
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Nice Collection... The US $5 with the yellow seal is a North Africa Note issued during WWII to troops. It carries a premium.
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Thanks for the pictures. Looks like great stuff. What an adventure you have ahead.
question: How long does the estimate process take?
Do you have to leave the coins for an extended length of time?
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03/27/2019 6:17 pm
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I hope the original poster follows up with all his positive and negative experiences with us here... passing on lessons learned to other who may end up in similar scenarios is important.
"Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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I wish that he would answer me back or PM me. The Hamilton Coin Club has their monthly meeting Monday and they'll be 30 colletors there .. and there's an auction as well that he can observe or take part in.
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They might just be busy with other arrangements that need to be made. Or maybe someone made a decent offer and picked up the whole lot. Sometimes forgoing some money is easier and better than trying to sort through something like this, it can be quite overwhelming, especially for a collection with that kind of value and size. A quick $5k-$15k could be more attractive than $10k-$20k 6 months down the road. I'm not sure what the whole thing was worth, but there was definitely some good value in it.
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Large, incoherent collections of lower to medium value stuff can be very exhausting to someone who isn't a professional. There's enough value there to paralyze with fear of selling too cheap, but not enough value to really inspire interest from heavy-hitters.
Unless someone's homebound with infinite free time to do the legwork and list the online auctions, its almost always better to propose the collection for sale to a few different sources and take the best offer.
I had to deal with a collection like this once and vowed that when I go, the theme of my own collection will be QUITE different (a small safe of tightly concentrated, higher value stuff)... but collecting 'everything' can be fun.... for a while.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Well said, @dollars.  to the CCF! |
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Coinfrog...you beat me to it.
'Very well said @dollars!!'
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to CCF dollars. John1  |
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to the Community, dollars! |
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