most liquid series?
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Some recent threads have got me wondering what coins are easiest to sell? I collect a mix of esoteric and mainstream. I've noticed how easy it is to sell things like slabbed gold, bullion, and chain cents. I imagine there's 1000 buyers for MS65 common date Morgans for every buyer of half dimes or colonials. Big generalizations here, but y'all get the point. I'm curious what else is really easy to sell?
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At the very top, Gold Buffalo.
In between, what you mentioned,
At the bottom, wildly differing options on graded material Quality.
Agree. Also, AGE's and ASE's are just as liquid.
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Bullion coins easiest.
Just about any coin is liquid if you run a 99 cent auction.
Bullion coin
I agree with @PerryHall .... AGE's and ASE's move well from what I have seen (have not sold any). Just watching the various venues during this run up in gold and silver. Cheers, RickO
I'm not sure that the OP was talking about taking a bath.
I think he was referring to "liquid" in a different sense.
Non-bullion-wise, what American coinage series are the most liquid? PMs always have a market around spot price, but for collector coins, what's the easiest to move?
Kennedys move easy.
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Right now, probably slabbed, generic MS 62-65 $20 gold pieces. Heritage has been putting out heavy buy orders at strong prices for the past month or two. Obviously they have a big demand. Can't get more liquid than that.
Prices on even circulated stone mountain halves have been crazy lately, if that counts
Morgans, Peace dollars, Walkers, Buff nickels, Lincolns. Maybe Indian cents, Merc dimes, SLQs would be somewhere in there. Those all have a strong following with a broad (and deep) pool of potential buyers. Stuff in the MS 63-4 range is probably more liquid than top pops, but demand for even those can be incredibly strong.
As others have said, right now this minute demand for generic gold (and silver) is higher than average.
Key dates in popularly collected coin series seem to be fairly liquid.
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"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
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most liquid series?
after bullion there isn't really a clear answer for me. I can only hope that I don't get to a point where I need to sell anything "now" because that's not a good place to be.
I would say junk silver coins.
Outside of a series where most of the value is bullion, I'd speculate it's Morgan dollars. Massive collector base across all grade ranges.
Most answers so far...bullion and near bullion.
Liquidity means are there buyers. Morgan’s, peace, barber, seated, trade, standing, Buffalo, cents. There are active collectors and dealers.
Think less liquid is trimes, 2 cents, shield nickels, etc.
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Not a common wheat cent.
Morgans. By far.
Really about any. I can get face value at any business
Morgan Silver Dollars.
For a long time it was lincoln cents. Now, not as many kids collecting (starting with lincoln cents) and the mint has let the series run way too long.
I'd say 2nd is Buffalo nickels. Popular design and lots of collecting options. A beginner can put together a mostly complete set very cheaply and an advanced collector can drop some serious $$ on a complete MS set.
People keep buying Morgan’s even though they are common as wheat cents.