I'm picking at my own poll. It's flawed as it can't show the ORDER in which you would sell.
At the shop, MOST people sold cheap stuff first. Even to the 90% silver bulk coins. They would start with dimes and see how the amount progressed with dollars the VERY LAST to go.
Also you left out US mint products. I have lots of US proof sets, buffalo dollars I bought from the US Mint etc etc. Those things are easy to sell and usually at a PROFIT.
If you have a coin that is tough to find OR is a PQ example OR has spectacular eye appeal, keep it. Anything else should be up for grabs whether or not it's expensive, cheap, key date, etc.
1909-S VDB is a key date that is rare and expensive, but every major auction has a ton of them from circulated to high mint state grades. It's very easy to replace if you have the money.
Bullion goes first becuase it is the easiest to replace
Always took candy from strangers Didn't wanna get me no trade Never want to be like papa Working for the boss every night and day --"Happy", by the Rolling Stones (1972)
Other -- the stuff that doesn't really fit into my collecting plans moving forward. It can be cheap, it can be more expensive, it can be small or large.
it would go "bullion" then "cheap stuff" but i dont have any bullion.... so cheap stuff (minus stuff like my circulated wheat set *incomplete* i put together from a 5c bag which has next to no REAL value)
1. Cheap stuff 2. Bullion 3. Stuff I paid too much for 4. Stuff I liked but could live without 5. Stuff I really liked but no longer fits my goals
I'd add to that, anything that can be replaced w/o need of rent garments, wailing & gnashing of teeth. It's just about all gone -- the only junk left is that stuff which would realize so little in sale that I'm better off keeping it until my kids are interested.
Funny you should ask. This is where I am right now. Selling off the "cheap" stuff, followed by the stuff I paid too much for, and then certified coins as a last resort, which may not be far away.
First things to go for me were common non-slabbed material (bulk silver, raw non-MS dollars, bullion). Next was slabbed material that no longer fit my collecting interest/registry sets. I even dumped a registry set because I felt completing the set was my only reason to own many modern proofs that I had little interest in.
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At the shop, MOST people sold cheap stuff first. Even to the 90% silver bulk coins.
They would start with dimes and see how the amount progressed with dollars the VERY LAST to go.
Feel free to post the sequence if you wish.
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If you have a coin that is tough to find OR is a PQ example OR has spectacular eye appeal, keep it. Anything else should be up for grabs whether or not it's expensive, cheap, key date, etc.
1909-S VDB is a key date that is rare and expensive, but every major auction has a ton of them from circulated to high mint state grades. It's very easy to replace if you have the money.
Didn't wanna get me no trade
Never want to be like papa
Working for the boss every night and day
--"Happy", by the Rolling Stones (1972)
1. Cheap stuff
2. Bullion
3. Stuff I paid too much for
4. Stuff I liked but could live without
5. Stuff I really liked but no longer fits my goals
I sell the stuff I paid too much for first, because it makes my collection look like I'm always getting shrewed deals
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1. Cheap stuff
2. Bullion
3. Stuff I paid too much for
4. Stuff I liked but could live without
5. Stuff I really liked but no longer fits my goals
I'd add to that, anything that can be replaced w/o need of rent garments, wailing & gnashing of teeth.
It's just about all gone -- the only junk left is that stuff which would realize so little in sale that I'm better off keeping it until my kids are interested.
Liberty: Parent of Science & Industry
The car
The house
The wife
The booze.
Maybe then
bullion coins