Best Way To Ship A Coin First Class?

Thank you. I appreciate it.

This has been covered in lots of other threads here.

What many of us do in this situation is put the coin in a clear plastic flip, attach it inside a piece of folded thin "cardboard" (think about the thickness of a greeting card) that is close to the size of the envelope.

If less than an ounce, it costs you a 55 cent stamp. I do this for single coins up to quarter size, and I charge 63 cents (55 cents times 1.13 to cover the ebay and paypal fees).

You must consider that when you do this, there is no tracking, and the recipient can say they never received it (and maybe they didn't for reasons mentioned by others). WHen this happens, you must refund them. My experience is that this might happen to 2-3% of your shipments without tracking.
It is also true thatr the postal system is all screwed u right now, any all shipments without tracking are more risky (I just reported in another thread on a shipment that eventually reached the buyer after 8 weeks ... I already gave him a refund around week 3).

Good luck!

Edit: As TNG says, you can use a 70 cent stamp and write or stamp "Non-machbinable." I do this for half dollar size coins, and use thicker cardbord (I use cereal boxes), or multiple coins (often kicking it up into a higher weight category ... but it's still much cheaper than the padded envelope route. At 2 oz and non-machinable, you are looking at only 95 cents."

I have ships hundreds and hundreds of cents via regular mail (uninsured) by securing them between two thin sheets of cardboard, taped carefully, then applying postage according to weight - never had a single one fail to arrive.

That is a fair statement.

following this conversation with interest. I have sold a few coins recently.. For a Silver Dollar/Eagle sized coin, it is clear that USPS shipping with tracking and in a bubble or good quality envelope is the way to do it.
For smaller coins, it is likely that a standard envelope and stamp would be fine, but what about selling a 40% Kennedy, for the value of one of these, this would have to go as the cheap option, but is it too big for this?

I have shipped "Blue Ikes" in their original mint packaging and shipped them by first class letter, I think charging $1.25.

I have sold half dollars by doing what I said at the end of my earlier post. They must go non-machinable, as @zurie says, with the coin sandwiched between something reasonably rigid like cardboard from a cereal box (personally I recommend Shredded Wheat ). You will wind up heavier than one ounce, which still costs under a buck.

One issue with the popular corrugated packaging is that it is thicker, jeopardizing your ability to keep the letter under 1/4 inch.

Nothing says we care like coins in an old PVC flip, taped with scotch to Toucan Sam's beak on a sugar encrusted cereal box.

More likely to have a dried up slice of banana, but my conclusion from the feedback is that customers want it cheap and fast and they don;t really give a hoot about the package