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How Would You Like To Buy Common Ancient Coins?

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 Posted 02/06/2012  3:53 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add dougsmit to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
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I have been considering selling off a hundred or so coins. My question is how much effort to put into the process. I, for one, enjoy the attribution process and realize that most of the coins are not worth much (late Roman commons) but time is a factor and I have been putting off doing this for some time simply because of the time involved and the low amount of cash that would be raised.

The question:
Which would you prefer to see as an offering?

1. An unillustrated non-specific list with cheapest prices: "(number) Small, late Roman coins, cleaned, not identified but all identifiable to ruler and type with most to mint."

2. A wordless group photo showing small groups offered together at slightly more than option #1 for the same coins. What you see is what you get.

3. As #2 but individual coins priced higher than the total of coins but you can take only the ones you like. "Any coin in this photo $5 each"

4. Described individually in words and with individual photo but not cataloged with RIC or other number. This option would be more expensive than any of the above but less than #5.

5. As #4 but with RIC number.

In each case the coins would be the same - all ancient and all relatively ordinary. On the last couple, some would say that you were paying $10 broken down into a $2 coin, $3 photo and $5 research event which makes sense for a $100 coin but not so much for a $2 one. I'm not talking about museum specimens or rarities but the sort of thing that was worth $2-5 uncleaned and did not turn out to be a Domitian II. Over a few years of collecting most of us will gather a group of things we don't need. How is the best way to move them into more appreciative hands? The other option is what I have been doing with these things in the past: give them to kids and use them as white elephant gift exchange gifts but some people I know hope they get the toilet seat with embedded barb wire rather than Doug's old coins so it might be time for a change. What is your suggestion? What do you do with duplicates and orphans?

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 Unillustrated group list
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 Pick out wordless photo
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 Posted 02/06/2012  4:02 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add VisigothKing to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Personally I'd be alright with just the photos of each coin, and maybe their sizes. I'd rather do the attributing myself. But if I had to choose among your options, I'd pick either #2 or #3
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 Posted 02/06/2012  4:15 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Gil-galad to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
If you have a great deal of coins. Just do what is easiest for you, a photo of a bunch of coins. Have someone pick what they want. You can place 20-30 or so on your scanner(or camera) and take a photo of it, turn them over and then do the same. I saw a seller do that for a couple of lots.

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 Posted 02/06/2012  4:25 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add echizento to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Just the pictures works for me.
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 Posted 02/06/2012  4:34 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add DVCollector to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I always like pictures, but I would enjoy making the ID myself--at my savings.
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