Help with an Inherited Collection

amwldcoin

Seems as though you are ass-u-m(e)-ing he would be selling them on ebay via the auction method! Which I advise strongly against!

@jonathanb said:
As several people have said, you need to decide what your goals are. There are many worthwhile goals: Short term profit, long term profit, satisfaction from keeping the collection for yourself, etc. Nobody here can tell you what you SHOULD do. That's up to you.

One thing I would caution is that you CANNOT become an expert in this area in a time frame measured in days or weeks, and probably not even months. If you want to become 100% knowledgeable before you sell these, don't even try.

Fortunately, you don't need to be an expert. You need to know enough to get a fair price for whatever you want to sell. Great Collections will do a fair job selling these for your. Other major auction houses include Heritage (ha.com) and Stack's Bowers (stacksbowers.com). Based on what you've shown so far, you should have enough to be treated fairly by any of them.

I would caution against selling these on eBay with the pictures you have. Pictures are important. Compare your pictures to the pictures at the three auction houses above and I think you'll see what I mean. You could easily cost yourself hundreds or even thousands of dollars per piece if you try to sell them yourself on eBay with those pictures. Sorry, but that's just the way it is. You could try to become an expert on coin photography -- but again, not quickly.

If you say what part of the country you're in, there's a decent chance that you can get recommendations here for someone local to you who would treat you fairly in person. That's an option if you don't want to go the auction route.

Or you could simply keep them. They're nice pieces.