Selling IPhone 3GS...SIM card questions

Thank you in advance for any help you can give me. I bought my mother an iPad and, for her needs, it really replaces her iphone 3gs so I bought her a simple cell phone to replace the iphone so she can just make calls from it. This simple cell phone came with a new sim card in it. I was planning on selling my mother's iphone 3gs on ebay with her old sim card in it. I erased all content and settings on this iphone so is it okay to sell the iphone with her old sim card in it or should I remove it? In the past, I have sold my old erased iphones with the sim card still in it and now I don't know if that was a mistake. Is there personal info on the sim card that somebody can access even after the iphone was erased? Thanks much.

As when data is erased from a hard drive, if not securely erased the erased data can be recovered by a data recovery utility.
The chances of someone going to that trouble with a SIM card and there isn't much they could do with it anyway if the data was obtained, why take the chance. It isn't your responsibility to include your no longer activated SIM card with a phone that you sell for someone who is interested in using the iPhone in a way that is not designed or intended. The iPhone is designed to be used as a phone - to be activated, and whoever purchases your iPhone will need to get a new SIM card from AT&T or use their existing AT&T SIM card from another phone if they are an existing AT&T subscriber in order to activate the iPhone with their line/number with AT&T as designed and intended.
More than likely no harm done or no need to worry if you include your SIM card but why have any concern about it whatsoever?
To each his/her own.

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