Coins & investing


 Since 9/28/24 I’ve sold and shipped 36 items for a Total of $834.05 netting between about $660-$690 per a ChatGPT review, for about 18–$19 per sale. Not a great investment from a pure time-spent point of view but it’s been nice slowly selling off a few coins and getting them to homes of folks who want them. I’m 80% done w a full excel list of my inventory and it’ll probably be close to 1000 coins when I’m done - most of which is just circulated European pocket change but at $18 each that could add up. Avg is likely closer to $6-7 I would guess as I’ve already sold a few of the more valuable ones and remaining are probably mostly “nostalgia” items that will only sell to people who want a coin from a certain year/country reminding them of a person, place, or trip.


In other news, I’m on Day 1 of Finance 108 via Northern Virginia Community College: Princ of Secur Inves. Should be fun!

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