I live in a small town, little access to coin dealers locally. My parents traveled the world and collected coins from all over. There is also a collection of coins in envelopes from the US. Some war script from WWII, etc, etc. Not alot of any one thing - just a big assortment. Don't know enough about them to even do e-bay. I live in TX - I could travel if it is worthwhile - any suggestions? Thanks
2006-09-07 03:59:34 · 7 answers · asked by JannahLee 4 in Games & Recreation ➔ Hobbies & Crafts
There must be a coin collector in your town. I bet there is more than one. Ask around and see. Have them look at your coins and paper items. There are a lot of honest dealers in Texas but they are in the larger cities. EBay by the way is not necessarily a piece of cake. You have to kind of know what you have. If you wish to do some work. Look through the items and if American write down the date and what it is, like cent, dime or whatever. On world coins you will be able to tell the country and date and what denomination it is of most coins but not all. The paper money also. Email me at Yahoo and give me the list, if not enough room for the list, I will give you an email address that you can send it to. If you have a scanner it would help, on you not typing so much. That is the best I can do. I have over 46 years experience in Numismatics ( coin collecting ).
2006-09-07 13:02:42 · answer #1 · answered by Taiping 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The best bet, to get a fair and honest appraisal of what you have if to go to a coin dealer in a major city that you can travel to. Check the yellow pages/Internet for them. Houston/Dallas/Austin will have such places. Another alternative is to call your local insurance broker and tell them you have some coins/jewelry/etc that you need appraised for insurance purposes. They might be able to come over and see what you have or they may recommend some one local and reliable. Once you get an idea of what you have and what it is worth, then eBay is your best bet. I know you said that it might be difficult, but in truth it is not. I have done it. eBay will help, if not, try going to an eBay store near you and they will do all the work...for a fee. One other thing: My guess, if neither you nor your parents collected coins without any rhyme or reason and just haphazardly, my guess is that you have mostly junk and it might not even be worth all the trouble, but good luck!
2006-09-07 11:57:21 · answer #2 · answered by Arc T 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I doubt it would really be worth much to travel to get them identified. Find a nice coin collector, or better yet a coin club, and take good, closeup pictures of the front and back of them. Send the pictures to someone who is helpful, but doesn't have any interest in buying them from you. Then once you know what they are, I would group them into similar piles, (US script in one pile, etc.), and sell the lots on Ebay. If your friend identifies something really valuable, maybe hold that out and sell to a dealer, as many expensive coins are sold on Ebay for very little. Separating them into "interest" piles maximizes your profit, since most collectors only collect certain things, and some wouldn't value the script, script collectors wouldn't value the coins, etc.
2006-09-07 16:37:14 · answer #3 · answered by medoraman 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can do eBay. Just look at the coin/money and look for similar items on eBay. Look for closed items as well. Look at the style the sellers use to right up the auction. Copy/steal what you like and make it your own.
If you plan on making a ton of money (ha ha) then maybe you need to travel to a larger city that has a coin dealer and make a deal with them. I think that eBay is a buyers market in most cases. Meaning, there are more sellers than buyers, so the prices are cheap. The buyers get a good deal.
Good Luck.
2006-09-07 11:04:54 · answer #4 · answered by eeaglenest 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You'll have to take them to a coin dealer, or a Gold and Silver exchange. Find a large city near you to do this. Call them and describe the coin to get the price before using Ebay. You'll probably get a better price with a dealer.
2006-09-07 11:02:26 · answer #5 · answered by Justsyd 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe find a couple of large coin dealers and photograph the coins... Send them the pics and get some ideas of WHAT they are, WHEN they were used and WHERE.
From there, they could bid on them or e-bay them.
2006-09-07 11:07:34 · answer #6 · answered by words_smith_4u 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ebay would be the best ...I know you stated you don't know alot about them but if you are not near a local coin dealer try looking up the coins on the internet
2006-09-07 11:01:53 · answer #7 · answered by just me 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋