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Hello all, I am working with a gal who is interested in valuing and selling her husband's coin collection. It looks pretty massive. I know she was nervous so I told her to take her time gathering and talking. Well, that was a month ago when silver was 20% lower than it is today   Anyways, I'm looking to value, buy, and sell some. I'm looking for advice from the experience on this forum. It looks like it's going to be a big chunk of money, so I'd like to buy and keep some, but also sell some or half. Any suggestions on the best way to buy or sell? If I buy at melt price, nobody would buy above melt (unless numismatic value). So is 80% or 90% of melt value normal? Any advice is appreciated. Also if anyone is interested in any purchases, you can PM me. Her and I will be discussing pennies next week to start small with little pressure (and since silver is nearing a 5 year high, I'm hoping it'll come down a bit, but with the recession coming, it'll probably be over $25 before Thanksgiving) THANK YOU!            |
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On the 90%, you could offer 90% of spot and sell it for around 95% of spot. You could pay a little more for the ASEs and a little less for the generic silver rounds.
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Looks like the vast majority is silver value. While you can sell it easily for 5% under spot, you still have to find the buyers, and shipping would eat up any potential profit if you don't charge postage. If I were doing it, I'd go through the Mercury dimes, Early Quarters, and all 90% silver halves for numismatic value over spot. If you see 20% of the bulk with such value, you would be safe for break even. Or, if she's only going by silver value, offer higher than silver for cherry picking. |
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wow... that large pile of coins... makes me...  have fun going through all of that, you're likely to find at least a few really great things in it, I hope you do! |
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I've been buying for resale for several years. One thing I've learned is that when spot prices go up a good bit over a short time period they can come back down just as quickly. You pointed out silver has increased by 20% in the last month. Even a 10% drop could eat up your profit....and you could be losing money by the time you figure selling costs.
I won't even look at cents that have been put in dated rolls. It takes way too much time to sort and find buyers. I've got between 15-20 pounds of wheat cents that make me cringe every time I see the bag. I guess I'd feel differently if I collected them.
If I was looking at the collection I'd separate the junk silver & bullion from anything with numismatic value. I've got a few outlets for that type of thing & know what they will pay. I'd make my offer on that part of the collection based on my buyers price minus whatever profit I think is fair. If the offer was accepted I would immediately resell. The coins with numismatic value I'd figure separately. Keep in mind that moving that part of the collection is going to take more time & effort which means the profit margin should be higher.
Edited by trdhrdr007
09/04/2019 4:21 pm
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Looks more like a hoard than a collection. Not saying I wouldn't want to go through it myself, but it mostly looks like things were purchased for silver value.
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Is her husband still around? He would have an idea of value. Any slabbed coin not in one of the three TPG's,ignore the labels info. John1  |
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A lot of stuff there! Don't trust what's written on the coin tubes - verify. I see a couple of cent tubes labelled 1932S and 1933S.
"Nummi rari mira sunt, si sumptus ferre potes." - Christophorus filius Scotiae
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I am coming to the end of a giant hoard that I have been selling for two years.
As I know the owners. I am doing this for 10% if all sales. All the dealers
I have talked to said they would have told them 20%.
It's a lot of work but you get first pick of what you want.
Pay fair price and get 10% back. Not bad in my book.
Depending on how much someone buys I will sometimes
Split the shipping or pay it all. Make a bit less but make
Someone happy it's all good.
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09/04/2019 11:18 pm
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Wow, thank you everyone for the great feedback so far. Her husband passed and she's been holding onto this not sure how to even go about finding values, meanings, or how to sell it.
She said her husband has "documentation" but I'll see what comes of that. One month ago I'd have no problem buying it as seeing silver was at a steady bottom for years, but seeing this 20% pop scares me it'll drop back down. Even if it was a 20% discount, there isn't any room for profit.
I appreciate the feedback and will keep you all in the loop on progress (over the coming weeks).
(Any further insight comments around selling are appreciated)
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trdhdr000007 is spot on.
KNOW what the market is for each niche. Sell what you can immediately. Don't try to predict the future. Make the money or break even and be done.
KNOW what you absolutely want to keep.
Get in, get out, savor a little icecream. :)
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Why doesn't her husband want to, or is not able to sell his collection?
He put the collection together.
He would know what it is worth.
He would have the best idea on how to sell the collection.
If I was in your position, I would ask the husband first, before making any decision to sell.
If you are friendly with him, he should be able to advise you, if you wish to start a collection of your own.
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@ sel - the OP states above that the husband has passed way and the heir is seeking to dispose of the coins.
Take a look at my other hobby ... http://www.jk-dk.art |
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If that person with this collection is a close friend, I'd be careful what you do. I've seen situations like this where it all ends up bad for the purchaser. Others will eventually say she got cheated and that will start a lot of similar discussions as to what really should have been done. SHOULD have and not what was done. Now after some time those involved don't even talk to each other and also, this carries on to other family members. I'd tell the seller to try to sit down and attempt to evaluate this her self for now. Purchase a copy of the Red Book and give it to her and mention how the prices shown are rather exagerated so use as a guide for now. Suggest selling off smaller amounts at first if money is not required at least for now. Tell her to take time since moving to fast may well end up making a mistake worth a lot of money. Just be careful of YOUR involvement with this type of situation. |
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Can't you have her get offers from dealers and then pay her some amount over the best offer?
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Lots of great insight here. I'm glad I posted this. Some follow up replies to questions.
- I don't know this lady personally, she works at the bank and I've talked with her only a few times, which is how we got on the topic
- Get in, keep what you want, get out (really like that idea, minimizes risk of any silver price fluctuations)
- Ask her to get a dealer offer and beat it, good though. I think she's afraid of carrying $10k-$20k of coins around though (my rough estimate from the pictures)
- I will have to verify everything... Unless that penny tube is loaded with 1931S and 1933 coins :) lol
- TRDR great insight!
Thank you everyone for your help on this!
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