What do you guys do with duplicate/additional coins?
Do you try to sell and or swap them for other coins?
Or do you just keep them for the sake of memories
or not being able to get a good value off of them?
Quote: "Joe's Coins"What do you guys do with duplicate/additional coins?
Do you try to sell and or swap them for other coins?
Or do you just keep them for the sake of memories
or not being able to get a good value off of them?
I am trying to swap them. Occasionally sell them on eBay. The rest of the doubles is sitting, and waiting to be swapped/sold.
I have recently joined Numista after having used the website for nearly a year.
It is indeed a remarkable site with tonnes of material. Kudos to the team.
I have always given my spares to friends & relatives to help start their collection.
After joining this website, I have realised that swaps are also a nice way to improve ones collection.
Guess I will do both now.
regards
I put together mini-collections for nieces, nephews, and their kids.
A set of world coins can help young kids realize how large and varied our world is.
In hindsight, I wish I'd kept better track of my gifts, so that I could bestow additional coins as gifts without worry of THEM getting duplicates! --Dan
Quote: "BluHawk"I have recently joined Numista after having used the website for nearly a year.
It is indeed a remarkable site with tonnes of material. Kudos to the team.
I have always given my spares to friends & relatives to help start their collection.
After joining this website, I have realised that swaps are also a nice way to improve ones collection.
Guess I will do both now.
regards
I guess ya just happened to join on my "birthday", I'd agree it's quite useful.
If they aren't rare or expensive I usually just give them away or add them to my hoard at home - just in case something bad happens to my collection, at least I have some spares.
I also have a pending project of creating an informational poster on my country's numismatic history (with actual coins). I plan to donate this to my old elementary school - perhaps, I can catch the hearts of potential coin and bill collectors too!
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I usually just keep them in a plastic bag- or a glass jar. I don't find it to be worth it to put it in a secure space, like a glass holder or a individual container- so I just put them in a random lot of coins. Maybe some day in the future, I could start an E-Bay Random Coin Lot since there's mostly cheap coins but still some rarer ones. Really am interested into figuring out what other people do with their coins.
TLDR: I just put them in a glass container or plastic bag with a bulk amount of coins for quick and easy storage.
I began to sort the coins last May 2020 only, labelled them one by one, started the database "manually" using MS excel, then I found this Numista site very very helpful and easy for me to manage my collection, I encoded the collection from my manual database to Numista and then I am updating now those spare coins I have for swapping. I am looking forward to have my "first" swap soon to other Numista members here :)
I have been throwing them in a jar and leaving them - recently sold about 10kg on eBay for £170. Still got about 15kg which i will probably list at some point in the near future.
Quote: "pearcem12"I have been throwing them in a jar and leaving them - recently sold about 10kg on eBay for £170. Still got about 15kg which i will probably list at some point in the near future.
