Help! Need advice... Where is the best place to sell/auction Variety Coins?

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• mingot Posts: 1,807 ✭✭✭

  September 5, 2012 4:42AM

  I would recommend ebay. The fees are not too bad and the rules are pretty easy to follow. If you're not liking the big boys they are definitely the way to go. Beware of small mom and pop types of auction/sales operations. They won't deliver nearly enough potential buyers to make it worth your while!

  Sell me a coin or three!

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• mozin Posts: 8,755 ✭✭✭

  September 5, 2012 4:54AM

  Stick with Heritage.

  I collect Capped Bust series by variety in PCGS AU/MS grades.

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• seanq Posts: 8,733 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 5, 2012 4:59AM

  What kind of variety coins are you talking about? The BST is a great option, especially if the varieties you are offering are included in the PCGS set registries, and moreso if they are already in PCGS plastic. For lesser-known or minor varieties, it has been my experience that the market there is a little thin, and for raw minor varieties I have had zero success there.
  
  Once upon a time specialty clubs like CONECA had auctions which were a great resource, now you might be better off finding the BST equivalents in the smaller online societies that have grown around some series (Lincoln cents, Liberty Seated coins, and toned coins being three examples).
  
  It's a shame you don't want to use eBay because that is where you will get the most eyes. I've found that the real diehard collectors are watching eBay like hawks, which is great if you're offering correctly attributed, scarce and/or esoteric items. I recall about a year ago, I offered a Bust Quarter error there in a Buy It Now and within 24 hours, I had been contacted by two prominent researchers/authors.
  
  
  HTH.
  
  Sean Reynolds

  Incomplete planchets wanted, especially Lincoln Cents & type coins.
  
  "Keep in mind that most of what passes as numismatic information is no more than tested opinion at best, and marketing blather at worst. However, I try to choose my words carefully, since I know that you guys are always watching." - Joe O'Connor

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• MrHalfDime Posts: 3,440 ✭✭✭✭

  September 5, 2012 5:38AM

  What Sean Reynolds said.

  They that can give up essential Liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither Liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin

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• CEOcoinshopcom Posts: 350 ✭

  September 5, 2012 2:59PM

  Well, seems like there's not too many other options.

  I'm Just Sayin"
  
  
  http://www.coinshop.com

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• ColonelJessup Posts: 6,442 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 5, 2012 10:58PM

  Certainly anecdotal, but the Stacks-Bowers ANA sale had an advanced Bust Dime collection which, to the casual observer (like myself), brought moon money.
  
  This was a group synergy effect, and not easily reproducible because of its great scope.
  
  Yet a phenomenon which might be exploited usefully in many venues, auction or elsewhere, by some who have larger groupings of specialist material .

  "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." - Geo. Orwell

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