Who Can Report Positive Results From Selling At Auction?

I've sold over $50K worth of PCGS certified US coins through Great Collections.

Had a great sellers experience - was satisfied with the auction photos, prices realized at auction and was paid in a reasonable amount of time (Net 30 as I recall).

Best of all I paid zero sellers fees for any of the coins that sold for over $1000, which was the majority of them.

Jaobler, I Appreciate the position you have been selected for , People Obviously have trust in Your decisions. Sounds Exciting. I am in the position of tallying up a spreadsheet of My collections. I am discussing with an Auction house also.

I Too am seeking to have My collection, A Large portion, Auctioned off , I am excited for You, You have a large Numismatic responsibility to acquire the Largest audience Possible to reach the Highest Prices for The Collectibles you seeking to sell. Having options are nice, Nicklesearcher stated no Sellers fees on coins over a thousand dollars, Fees stack up quickly in/on Auctions. We can Only Hope to capture the Largest Audience, You Should also look at Who Will achieve that same goal for You, Many auction houses will gladly take on selling Your Collectibiles, Your goal is Very obtainable .

Your job is to Secure the Best audience possible, The Highest prices paid, Along with Options that in the end, Will bring you the Best paid to you prices. I will be watching please keep us in the loop, Remember, Your the Newest ward for the collectibles your in charge of, Some of these " coins " have Not seen the light of day for others and The beauty of such " coins " are waiting to be seen by the coin collecting World, Best wishes, Hope this helps, MD.

So far I've contacted Heritage and Great Collections; both companies are interested. GC has estimated a slightly higher value for the set. My initial estimate for total value is looking a bit optimistic. Maximum total proceeds is likely to be closer to $140K.

Both companies say they would evaluate the coins for upgrade potential and possibility for CAC approvals. Any coins that upgrade or sticker could obviously attract higher bids.

I will discuss seller's fees with both companies. Obviously I'd prefer to minimize those fees and the firm with the lower cost will have an edge when it comes time to make our decision.

I noticed the values you mentioned. Perhaps you have common gold coins there? Beware of selling gold coins at auctions if the metal price has reached the numismatic value.
Any auction fees will make auctioning worse than selling them for melt value. I am seeing that here in Europe happening to common gold coins 100 to 200 years old.

There were lots of generic gold and silver coins which I sold for melt+. The potential auction lots are PCGS and NGC certified collector coins. Two of the best are an 1889-CC double eagle in MS-62 and an 1856 Flying Eagle cent in PR-63.

Thanks for the update, Jaobler. Good luck!

Great Collections reported one of my coins (a 1936 Buffalo nickel in PCGS PR-67 with CAC approval) has a damaged holder. They recommend re-holdering and CAC review before listing it. They will charge $47 for the service and seem confident I will more than recover that cost at auction based on a flawless slab.

They also told me a CAC-approved coin when reholdered will always qualify for a sticker on the new slab, since the original serial number is retained. Good to know!

GC reported they selected 10 coins out of the total 29-coin consignment to send for CAC review. 4 coins got the green stickers. The GC rep said a four out of ten success rate is actually above average.
Hopefully the winners will sell for enough of a premium to cover the total CAC review cost.