Advice on how to sell Chinese Ancients on eBay please...

laurentyvan

Hi folks, I am slowly grinding to a close on my eBay selling, within a couple of hundred coins of being finished from my collection of over 2500-3000.
I haven't had much on eBay lately due to a misunderstanding on my or eBay's part...

I always used to receive an invoice on the 4th from eBay and they would take the payment from my paypal account (pre-arranged) on the 18th. This worked for several years...

All of a sudden they started invoicing a day or two earlier and wanted payment from my paypal a lot earlier.

I wasn't ready early and paid two successive months on the 18th per usual, payment accepted as normal. Then suddenly, eBay wasn't happy, hit my credit card and it turned out it had expired and I had inadvertently not renewed with another card. As a result I was only able to list sporadically in-between threatening e-mails.

Well, over a month later I'm back on track even though they continue to invoice my credit card (and I receive ominous alerts) but with a $0 balance due. Gotta thank Fiora from eBay who was very helpful but (I think) equally confused.

So, this week a few coins for sale including (but not limited to) Mexico, Austria, Poland, Madagascar, China; some decent, but very inexpensive coins.my eBay

Which brings me to this question: I have some 30-odd authentic Chinese Ancients from a mature collection, properly attributed with Schjoth numbers, all imaged, spanning a dozen centuries or more. None very valuable, probably $3-4 apiece up to $10 in value or slightly more.

I am inclined to sell these in one lot but have some doubts that this will maximize their value. How would you sell these on eBay?

BobSav

You might want to try the BST forum right here.
I'm sure you will find some customers and a lot less hassle that E-bay.

Bob

sumnom

I could be interested in some of them!

laurentyvan

I could be interested in some of them!

Exactly my dilemma... I don't want to take O/R pictures of each coin individually (66 images), would rather take several group shots, perhaps a couple of closeups of individual coins but list details for each.

I don't really want to separate any more desireable coins from common ones but don't know enough about Chinese Ancients to be able to intelligently form
several desireable groups of them.

I've read often enough about this kind of coin to realize that they are common and won't fetch much individually
but I've sold some "common" coins before and been very surprised.

I'll try to pull something together and post it in this thread and/or the BST thread.

sumnom

I suppose there isn't much of a substitute for knowing what you have. When you say common, are you referring to things like Northern Song or maybe Qing issues?

ColinCMR

i might be interested in some too!

also, you may consider selling to a dealer, http://www.fsrcoin.com/ specializes in Chinese cash

laurentyvan

A few examples:

Wu-Chu 1st to 6th century
Chen Tsung 1008AD
Jen Tsung 1023AD
Shen Tsung 1078AD
Yuan-Yu 1086AD
Shao-Sheng 1094AD
Hui-Tsung 1101AD
Hsiao Tsung 1174AD

and so forth...

sumnom

I see. I could certainly be interested. I will wait for your posting on the BST.