Too Many JFK Halves

I don't see it having a chance to be profitable after ebay, Paypal and shipping fees. With few exceptions the Kennedy half can easily be found at face value and as Mayflower mentioned many are AU-BU. You might try...and list 1 "almost completed" set on ebay and see what happens but I would think the bids wouldn't get high enough over face value to make it worth your while.

82/83?

I got a crazy idea. Do them by mints. You could make a set of: 71, 72, 73, 74, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92

Make a roll with them and call them a "1971~1992 P (or D) set of AU (or BU) clad Kennedy halves".

That is most of the year and should be ale to make a few rolls to test to see what you would get, then the NIFC you could try to do the same with if you have them but I think they will be shorts since there is only 14 NIFC (2002~2015).

There is really many different gimmicks you can sell those with and not be misleading in any way. The only thing is are you wanting more than face for them really? and do you want them to be able to reach the common collector? ebay is like chess when it comes to selling. It is easy to learn the rules, but takes a lifetime to master.

Back before I knew about boxes, and when I bought my Ike lot and ASE from ebay it was always interesting TRYING to bid on other coins, and the listing themselves were about as fun looking through as is now looking through boxes of rolls. (its definitely less dirty)

Do you have an ebay store? (does ebay still even have "stores"?)

What are your overall goals to getting rid of the coins and what do you want to get out of them is the big questions you just need to ask and try to work for those goals the best you can an hope bidders want to play too.

Please be aware, and this is sometimes seen as a jek thing to do but it still important in ALL sales; that handling is also a fee you charge. S&H means shipping and handling. It isn't free to ship things because it takes a container to put them in, the packing material costs things, driving to the post office costs time and money....etc. This is whre there is $7 S&H even from the US Mint for a new release roll of halves.

Another thing is AFTER you decide to sell them, you will jsut need to know how many lots you are making and put those aside. You dont even have to roll them yet, cauyse nobody has bought them. You can make your listing such that people will all get items shipped at the same time so you can make only one trip to the PO. Not really sure about Paypal, cause when ebay bought it I quit ebay cause I didnt want a paypal attached to my bank account. By shipping fees ar something the buyer pays. You don't have to worry about it. Get a flat rate Priority Mail box/envelope from the PO and jsut use that price. all other shipping options you want to mess with offering have a price at the PO and the buyer can choose. IF ebay hasn't totally messed things up, you can opt to let people pay with Money Order also. When I did it I got some weird banks, but put explicit instructions that I only took USPS Postal Money orders in the description. That means I can get it cashed at the post office, while paying the shipping. 1 person could by a roll like I mentioned, and end up paying for 2 extra to be shipped depending on current priority mail prices and whatever tracking, insurance, delivery confirmation you wish to use.

There is a lot you can research while letting your eyes rest while looking your next box of rolls to see how and what you would want to offer. and If you got this much at face value, well you can easily make money off the handling cause 20$ of MRSP of everything today is the packaging!

Just make sure you including that it has an S&H cost that is flat and the prices of all the shipping options offered and someone should snag a couple for over face that way.

Example: (not exact costs)
$10 roll of halves
$7 Priority mail
$3 packing materials...

$10 S&H but odds are you aren't spending all the "handling, so you get something back even IF they only bid exactly $10 for the roll to go to a collector rather than sending them back into the wild. You don't just use up gas, because you make your PO run while doing other things near it, maybe picking up a new box at the bank to search? So you were going that way anyway.

It all will really boil down, no matter what weird fees get added based on bid amount, etc; as to how much you value your time when you have nothing else to search through and how much time you have to take those pics. Better pics will yield better bids, but for something like this, even if you put the ebay listing number on a 2x2 for each coin, you aren't getting that much for them, so a single stock photo of 1 group for all lots will work and get a little something. I hope.

But don't let me force you into thinking go ahead and ebay them as you need to check how the coins are selling right now using the "recently sold" or whatever they call it to see how well like items to what you want to sell is doing.

The quality of the $500 of halves I have sitting around in rolls isn't anywhere near that good, but I just haven't parted with them yet. So I know what it is like to keep something for so long and put the effort into keeping it for whatever reason, and then just all that time gone when you get rid of it just for face value. Just the 10 rolls of bicentennials sit and mock me when I look at them, since they are the last remnants of my knowing I wasn't getting back the same box for my 10-box experiment where I kept ALL bicentennials. (10% of the halves out of 10 boxes were 1976)

Unless you are hurting for money or see that $500 as a box you could look (That is what I am thinking right now) then jsut take your time and weigh your options and look for new options that may present themselves for your time not to be lost assembling them and saving them from coin rolling machines.

good luck!

There are very few selling for above face value. The only ones I see that actually sold are Silver, Proofs or Graded coins. For each loose coin that sold in the past week there were 10 lots that were listed at face value, didn't sell and still had to pay ebay fees.

Is there a such thing as too many Kennedy halves?

OR you could put together some sets and offer them on here for sale or trade, even if you only sell them at a tiny bit above face, you aren't dealing with ebay, and you are getting them in the hands of some people on here who don't CRH