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Selling coins for fun - my story

Day 25 - 50 Kopek coin USSR

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October 20, 2024

Just sold a coin! After 12 days, yay. Have to see if this was promoted or not. Get it ready to ship via eBay Standard Envelope 1 oz.

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Day 50 - 3 SBA dollars

November 14, 2024

Sold 11/9, paid 11/12; shipped 11/13; eta 11/18. Messaged buyer to with updates. Love how payment is so early now; am I now a “trusted” seller?

Day 28 - 2 sales!

October 23, 2024

Sold Greek and Norwegian coin sets to same buyer, and shipped today.

Day 2 of blogging about selling coins - photos and circle cropping

September 27, 2024

Newer version, directly downloaded from the crop-circle online tool. Better? As mentioned yesterday, I found a nice blog article from https://artemis-collection.com/photography/a-brief-guide-to-coin-photography/ about taking photos with good backgrounds. Today I found an online page https://crop-circle.imageonline.co/ to crop a circle and download the image. I then download and then paste it into a new blank note with white background (on my iPhone SE). Here is the result: https://www.ebay.com/itm/205015846358 vs https://www.ebay.com/itm/205012372705 The 2nd, older image (not circle-cropped) turned out to be higher resolution, so I will have to figure out how to make the first one the same high res. I also saw someone who has front and back image of coin, and then one that is combined side-by-side. That's it. Nice n clean. I did that by putting in a 3rd image and then viewing the images by clicking on them in eBay, which then showed the 2 coins side-by-side. I th...