Selling Stock

Hi...I feel really dumb asking this but I know  absolutely nothing about
stock except that I have had some certificates setting in my deposit box
for the past 17 years. They are worth about $67.000 now. Any ballpark
figure about the cost for selling them?

I don't know how to go about selling them. Have been told that any bank
can do this through their financial services. I don't want to do that
because three years ago I bought what they assured me was just like a
one year CD but was called something else. NOT. When I cashed it at
maturity I got $10,000 less than I started with.

After dozens of phone calls and almost "camping" in that office, I
finally got all of my money. About 2 months later that person went to a
well know Wall Street company and 3 months later she was in jail for
embezzlement. Now serving 9 years. My fault for trusting her.

TIA
Doree

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