Sell A Coin Via A UK Auction House Or Send It To The USA For Sale There.

I don't have direct experience of selling through a US based auction, so I can't give experienced advice.

It would seem to me that a lot depends on the coin. Is it a UK or US issue? Roughly how old is it? Has it been slabbed? (The US market is far keener on slabbed coins than the UK.)
If you post it to the US, you may incur import duties even before it is sold, which may affect your calculation. Unless the US auction house has an affiliate in the UK?
It does seem to me that the big US buyers (also Chinese and Russian) are sucking up anything decent in the UK auctions, so the price differential may not be as much as it was a few years back.

Thanks PaddyB and Kipster.

The coin is from the Middle East, not slabbed, lucky find.

Heritage auctions seem to have a good following and have a UK branch in London so I'll contact them and see what they say/do/advise etc.

Cheers
Brian

Not being silver or gold makes it easier to send to the US. But I doubt if you can insure it.

I also noticed american auction houses opening new offices here in the continent.

Personal experience. I would never buy anything from heritage ever again £70 shipping is a P-take . I would send it to Great Collections they send the coin for grading first before it enters the auction. They have huge discounted rates. Don't as me how but they are a massive business. They charge me £15 from the USA to post to me in the UK which is more than reasonable. I was thinking of even consigning my coins to them. Some of the prices realised are mind boggling. I normally get stampeded on by higher bids.

Thanks all.
I stayed British !
Coin will be sold by Baldwins in their October auction. They offered exceptionally good service and terms of sale.
It will be sent to USA for grading/slabbing (all at their expense) and then auctioned.
Heritage did not want it, they eventually replied to tell me they only accept single coins over $5k
I'll post again nearer the auction date.
The coin is ...

Iraq 20 fils 1252 (1933) #1633;#1634;#1637;#1634; - #1633;#1641;#1635;#1635; (Error date AH1252)

Had a poor experience with ebay so decided to use a proper auction house this time.

Cheers
Brian.

a quick google found this one sold by Heritage in 2022...
https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=l...29&lot=35874
bizarre.

Heritage get high prices because of the slab market in the US. Some US buyers are highly conservative and won't buy from overseas or buy an unslabbed coin, so force themselves to buy from Heritage or Stacks. But for some types of coin that does not always (or even often) work. British coins get healthy enough prices through Noonans, Spink, Baldwins or even CNG (almost entirely unslabbed). Heritage overcharge for everything and you really have to be a dedicated slabber to buy from them - which means collectors of US coins who might (but probably don't) dabble in other things.

An Iraqi coin is tricky since you don't know where the market is, but since it isn't in Iraq, it probably doesn't matter where you sell it. Those collectors are used to buying from anywhere. As you're in Britain, a British auction would be the safest option. The only US auctioneer who would know what to do with it is Stephen Album.