Suggestion on how to sell/get rid of common coins

Help searched from the wise and experinced people of the forum
My space for dublicate coins are running low (don't we all know the problem, if not with dublicate, then with our main collection?) and I know it would be somewhat near impossible to swap them, for something I want more. Even selling them for less than the normal kilo price here will be a far stretch. I mean coins like eg. Italy from the republic, Spain from Franco and Juan Carlos I, and France from the 3rd republic onwards. No valuable metals or rare coins among.

I want to keep those I actually can sell for a bit of profit, for swapping instead.

What do other people do, with the duplicate you can't get rid of?

Thanks in advance :)

I had around 70 kilos of such coins, and I swapped them here in Paris....

The first swap 35 kilos for around 60 coins I needed, the swap done in my garage.

The second swap for 35 kilos again for some 50 coins, also in the garage.

My cellar is much nicer now, my collection grew a little, but I got rid of all the junk to people just wanting to look through all my old coins. I suppose they might have found variants in there, but so is life.

I suppose you have coin clubs in DK? Why don't you try to give the coins to them for new collectors?

Take care
Ole

An experienced collector said to me... "Welcome to the world of collecting, not hoarding.". I'm guessing most of us have been hoarding at some point.

Here's a glimpse of when I received this advice based on my Numista "Coin History". As you can see I have far fewer coins.


Being a Canadian Cent collector by year, I was lucky enough to unload all my cents at the local Bank. Many of them were collectible grade but in reality, no one on Numista was very interested and selling on ebay was a guaranteed "loss" due to shipping costs. Next went the other Canadian coins. Mostly 5 Cents and a complete variety collection of 25 Cent pieces, non-silver.

I still have far to many World coins and I will have to spend many hours updating my Swap List. I'll get to that project one day (I hope).

Sage advice from the same, experienced collector; "When your hobby becomes work, it's no longer an enjoyable hobby!".

Good luck on your culling.

There is an alternative of getting a table at a local coin show, putting them in flips and dealing them. The coffee is at least good (usually) and making friends in real space is a unique experience these days.

Sell them in bulk lots on sites like as Ebay would be good or use sites like leftover currency to post the common coins that have some kind of monetary value like Swiss Francs.

https://www.leftovercurrency.com/