Making Money on eBay Selling Coins

For a while, I was actively buying coin lots on eBay to flip and earn money to purchase new coins for my collection. I can be hard to find a deal good enough to make money on eBay because of all the fees associated with doing so. Both eBay and Paypal will take their cut from your sale. About a year ago, I purchased a couple of silver Roosevelt Dime sets in Dansco Albums (1946 - 1964). These coins had very attractive toning and the price was right. I sold many of the common coins for around $20 each. These generally bring $3-$5 untoned. This price provided me to make a profit selling these and the proceeds went to my commemorative silver dollar set.

Thinning Out My Coin Collection

In my quest for completeness, I accumulated a large amount of coin albums that I "HAD" to fill.  Not only did I try to fill the labeled holes, but I bought blank Dansco pages to add early proof and the satin mint set coins from 2005 -2010.  My the collection I was building was fairly nice, but I started running into several problems.

The collection was growing too large.  The space required to properly store my coins kept growing.  This included needing to keep purchasing new albums and totes to store them.  Next brings the issue of weight.  Everything was getting too heavy.  It was a chore to even look at my albums.  Pulling out all of my bins and find the albums I was looking for was too much.  I didn't even want to look at the coins anymore.

1955 Rainbow Toned Proof Set

I haven't posted in a while and want to get back in the habit of doing so.  Here are some photos of my 1955 proof set.  The top photo shows the set with the 1953 & 1954 set in a Capital Plastics holder. Enjoy!

2 Roll Dime Break

I purchased 2 rolls of dimes from the bank and these are my results:

• Pre 1969  EF - AU : 0
• Silver Coins (1964 - Older): 0
• Total EF - AU Coins For Albums: 6
• Key Find(s): 2010P (Unc)

Verdict: I've toyed around with collecting a set of circulated dimes and decided to get a couple of rolls from the bank.  If anything, the potential for silver coins sounded tempting.  The 2 rolls I opened were customer rolled dimes.  One thing I noticed with these coins, was the considerable amount of wear they displayed. Many of the coins has rust spots on them or were badly discolored.  The copper was showing through many of the pieces.  After searching the 100 coins, I found 6 I might want to keep for a collection.  To be fair, these 2 rolls may have come from the same person, so I can't give a good determination of the series.  I may take another stab at this run in the future.