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1,{heading:"The paperwork nobody warns you about",body:["Keep a simple list: what was in the collection, what you photographed, and where each part ended up. If this came through an estate, coins may need a written appraisal for probate, and the value at the date of death is the number that matters there. An appraiser who works on estates will handle that properly.","Collectibles are also treated differently from ordinary belongings when sold, and the rules vary by country and by amount, so one call to a tax professional is worth making before a large collection is broken up. None of this is urgent on day one. The photographs and the list are, because they get harder to reconstruct every time a box moves."]},{heading:"When the sorting is done and the typing starts",body:["What’s left after sorting is a table of individual items and a lot of description writing. That is the part FastFlip handles. You photograph an item, it writes the listing, checks what similar ones are going for, and puts it up on as many as nine marketplaces, four connected directly and the rest through a browser add-on, or copy and paste for Grailed. When something sells on one of the four connected marketplaces, it comes down from the others automatically; the add-on ones you end yourself, and FastFlip flags each one so it is a single tap.",`For coins it checks the country, denomination and year against a coin catalog instead of trusting what it read in the photo, and says so when it can’t confirm. Free for ${i} photo scans a month, and there is a demo you can click through without an account. Listing one item to several marketplaces at once is part of Pro.`]}];function G(){return o.jsx(a,{title:"I Inherited a Coin Collection - What Now? | FastFlip",description:"First steps for an inherited coin collection: what not to do, how to sort it, how to spot real silver, and how to get an honest offer.",canonical:"https://fastflip.ai/guides/inherited-coin-collection",h1:"You inherited a coin collection. Here’s what to do first.",datePublished:"2026-08-02",sections:s,icon:o.jsx(r,{className:"w-6 h-6 text-primary shrink-0"}),related:[{to:"/guides/vinyl-record-value",label:"How much is my vinyl record worth?"},{to:"/guides/clearing-a-parents-house",label:"Clearing a parent’s house. Where to start."},{to:"/channel-listings/marketplace-differences",label:"How the marketplaces differ, side by side"}]})}export{G as default};