TetonJoe

Yes, that's a great suggestion!

Ok thank you JKK.

Hope you are all doing well. We have had so many great suggestions - thank you again. We are going to move forward with a loose plan to focus on the higher value coins by getting approximately the top 100 coins professionally graded. Our thoughts are to send a small sample batch to NGC & talk to Great Collections as well. We would then continue on in batches moreso to have a comfort level than to turn over all 100 at once. After that, we would then do some economy version of slabbing for the coins remaining over $100. We have to educate ourselves on exactly what economy slabbing means. The rest would be divided by country and we'd come up with a plan to dispose of in lots, auction or some other method TBD. Does this sound like a good strategy? Apologies for being repetitive, but the collection is truly overwhelming. But historically so interesting at the same time!

Hello all, I'd appreciate any help in going in a new direction for a large collection. We have a big collection inherited a few years ago from a beloved expert numismatic family member. Sold about 75 ancients as a small part of it last year at a large show, with help from great people on that thread here. What's left are about 10,000 World coins from 1100's to mid 1980's. Of that, about 450 are over $100 in value each which totals about 45% of the collection. We spent a good year putting together the World Coin inventory - all is done. Coins in original flips (and left alone - did not take out or clean). Most are graded between Fine and MS60 or so. Used Krause, NGC, eBay, Numista and other sites to get prices. Some are ungraded so we don't know their value, but we used lowest NGC price. Coin dealers said that the grading on the flips were all very accurate and that the sample coins were a great collection. Had two separate guys look at the whole collection, confirmed the above and then offered about 20%. We're not looking for 100% or even 80. Would entertain anything fair. With that said, what I don't get is why all the people we've talked to seem to contradict themselves. That is, they say the condition and grading looks good, and that using the above methods (for guidelines of course, not for selling), are also sound. They consistently say NGC prices are inflated, so that's understood. But then they dismiss buying the collection with all kind of excuses. Any insights? We've tried big dealers, local dealers, and auction firms. Auction houses only look at a list, not the actual coins and want to batch with a $1 minimum, which is honestly just laughable. Very frustrating. Should we break it up? If so, how? Thank you in advance!