Consolidation Of My Collection

Welcome to the CC forums! You're best bet is selling them here, it's free. Generally, you're better off selling individually than as a set.

I suggest sticking around and getting your 50 posts (like me) and then you can sell and trade your sets. If you have not looked in that part of the forum yet I would suggest doing so. I was amazed at what the members here do to help each other out without trying to take advantage of each other.

Time is the key. How much is your time worth to divide up a collection to get a couple of coins sold at a time. I would suggest the time/profit ratio would be best by pulling the keys/semikeys and getting them slabbed and sold separately and then sell the remaindered set. With a PCGS,ANAC,NGC,ICG slab, you only need minimal photos, and don't have to argue about the grade or the return of a "substitute" coin for a refund. Listing time, photographing time, mailing time, etc....all is a demand on you, and probably be less than the cost of slabbing.

If you are serious about consolidating, DO IT FAST. The longer you mess with those sets, the more likely you are to be "trapped" Dom is right. Once you look at the nice lincolns or buffaloes again......

Jim

WELCOME TO THE FORUM.
My suggestion is to forget selling or getting rid of anything. If you can afford to keep everything you have, do so. The reason is all my life I am a little sick of so many people saying "I used to have that" or them or it or those. Had to get rid of, whatever. Now sorry about it. Keep everything so someday in the future you can say "I ALMOST got rid of xxxxx but here they still are and am I glad"

It will take some time but it's the best bang for your buck.

Thank you very much for your suggestions. It seems that you are all professional, honest, passionate collectors. I will work on my postings and open up my collection to the forum.
Thank you kind people.
Zohar

Thank you very much for your suggestions. It seems that you are all professional, honest, passionate collectors. I will work on my postings and open up my collection to the forum.
Thank you kind people.
Zohar

Glad you said that. Now by the time you get enough posts to start selling, you may have figured out it's better to keep them all.

If you're set on selling the coins, there's a few routes you can take. The first would be to consign all your sets to a dealer you trust, which will probably net you a little less money than doing it yourself, but save a lot of time. If you decide to sell them yourself, you can either sell them as complete sets or break them up. Selling them complete would be easier, but probably would net you less than if you sold each coin individually or just the keys individually. I would try the forum first, since it's free, then turn to ebay.