Great Collections Offers PCGS Or NGC Grading At $10 Per Coin

That's a course I will recommend for a new member who has inherited and wishes (or needs to) liquidate. If the coins can be determined here to be worthy of it, this is a far easier course for a non-collector. As for myself, I'd do it in a heartbeat if it fit my need.

Great Collections is a very good auction house. The $10 offer sounds like a good deal to me. Go for it!

Teletrade has higher buyer and seller fees, so the net amount you receive will be lower. Teletrade's reputation has also suffered in recent years for a variety of reasons.

Make your own decision. Mine would be to go with Great Collections.

Thanks for that tid-bit of info BH1964, I did not take the selling fees into consideration.

Great Collections, is a service I have not used myself, I have used TeleTrade many years ago. I have also bid on a number of Great Collections auctions, just haven't won anything yet. Great Collections was started by Ian Russell, he was the COO at Spectrum, who owns TeleTrade, Bowers, Spectrum coins, etc. Then he left Spectrum Group in 2010 to form Great Collections, for your info. He's an honest guy with a keen business head and a lot of experience in marketing/selling coins in the numismatic world, using the latest technology on the Internet.

Great Collections must have really been eating into Telerade business after Ian left to start it, as currently TeleTrade is offering no cost submissions. However looking at the stuff I bid on, and the quality of and amount of items, is way, way down from a couple of years ago. Teletrade is now a CAC submission center as well. With the current deal TeleTrade might be a good option for you to sell your coins. Though I think Great Collections seems to be gaining rapidly over TeleTrade the past 12 months in quantity of of coins and the quality is beating out TeleTrades offerings by a large margin.