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so I go to an estate sale a couple days ago and end up buying a semi-huge lot of coins,now all I was after was older silver american but the sellers only wanted to sell all thier fathers coins at once so I buy them all since there was alot of what I wanted.now after picking all the american I am left with about 700 coins in cardboard/plastic flips.these coins are only catagorised alphabetically and include at least thirty countries with dates spreading wildly from the late 1800's to present with the bulk being mid-century.
my questions in general are:is there an american market for these type collections? and how would one go about fixing a price without going thru research on each coin?do coins like this sell well by the pound on ebay? Just guessing I would say theres about 15 lb.this may be a time to become an ebay seller since I would have lots of small items to generate feedback.thanks for reading and any answers CR

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Or you could just blindly sell the lot. Ballpark an average price of a dime a coin and sell it in that range. Lots of folk will buy that just to see what's what ... particularly if there's strange coins in it.

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Are any of these coins silver or gold? If so there will be some demand for them. If they are all base metal :signs14: then sell the whole lot on ebay excluding older dated coins( pre 1940s) that are AU or Unc and sell them individually.

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I would take the time to do the research. You never know what you might find, and it should be looked at as a hobby/learning experience instead of a chore.

A good, free online guide with pics and values is www.worldcoingallery.com.

Do rougly 25-30 per day as time allows and you'll be done in under a month by alloting 30 minutes a day.

I did that with my foreign coin collection and at first it seemed overwhelming, but I actually enjoyed it and learned a little along the way.

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A wise person would follow the sound thinking above to the "T."

That means if you are not dumber than a ROCK you'd do the WALK.

(kinda rhymes, right?) :111:

Or "IF you are" then send them to me and I'll let you KNOW in about 20 years...

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if you break it up and sell the pieces, like parting out a car, you will get a lot more money. and it will probably be a lot more hassle.

one idea is to use eBay or the local Craigslist. I used to sell stuff on the USENET newsgroups, in the early/mid '90's. then it was GREAT bunch of people to deal with - buyers with money, no no-shows.

I was doing some house-cleaning in 2005/6 and tried selling some of the stuff on Craigslist. A much different crowd, too many no-shows, flakes, not worth the trouble.

If it was me I'd break it up by country and try selling the lots individually. You might get lucky and have a good bunch of buyers.

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Any Australian, Canadian, or Jamaican stuff?