1793 1c Chain Cent S-1 In PCGS AU-50 For Sale.

Surprised someone with his rep would turn to ebay.

Well put....and a coin like that will definitely draw people in and have them look through his other items for sale.

There are many serious coin dealers, with fantastic reputations who sell on ebay...

I would love to own that coin. Only in my dreams though.

There are at least five major avenues for dealers to sell coins (not including brick and mortar storefront and coin shows)

1. Dealer website. High overhead, and very expensive to maintain, and does not have guaranteed exposure to a wide collector base without extensive SEO and promotion/advertising, but you don't have to pay listing or sales fees or deal with time limits on listing durations, and you can offer alternative payment systems such as e-Check, Zelle and MO/PMO that ebay and other sites do not support.

2. Business-to-business (B2B) usually via CDN or closed private Facebook/Google Groups.

3. Electronic and physical mailing lists / newsletters. Very old school and extremely time consuming but still has a few major dealers that do this way (Miller's Mint, Steve Album, e.g.)

4. Major auction houses such as Great Collections, Heritage, Stack's, Kagin's, etc.

5. Online auction sites such as ebay, or online "aggregators" such as MA-Coins, or other international sites such as cgb.fr, Künker, et al.

Out of all of the above, ebay has by far the most exposure with the largest collector market. There's a reason that it is far and away the #1 coin marketplace in the United States and why nearly every major dealer in the United States has a strong ebay presence.

It is estimated that there are approximately a little over 500 surviving examples, in all grades.
I pulled the trigger on one years ago. I bought it raw and it has since been certified by PCGS.
That AU50 example is beautiful. It boggles my mind to think who could have held these at one time.
George Washington? James Madison?

Would be nice to be able to afford it. I have two 1794s low grade, planning on buying the silver 230th flowing hair in the fall.