I have purchased many coins from Great Collections Auctions (GC) over the past year. I discovered them fairly late in the game, but boy am I happy I did. They have become one of my largest sources for coins, right behind eBay. I consider the GC site to be in the top ten for coin buying sites (http://www.greatcollections.com/). There is a great assortment of categories, filtering, sorting, searching, and browsing available which can be implemented in a variety of ways to best locate coins in the varied methods of their customer base. They are not nearly as large as Heritage Auctions, but they are just as professional and functional. The company is run by Ian Russell, formerly of Teletrade and I have personally corresponded with him several times, asking for additional information, giving feedback, and even asking for a favor once when I placed an erroneous bid. Great Collections coin images are quite good, and better than most coin dealers. The high resolution version of each coin slab makes checking for errors, varieties, and distracting marks quite easy. Lack of adequate images never seems to be a problem with here. I have never seen manipulated photos that left me disappointed when the coin arrived, whereas some other dealers “juice” their photos. Quite the opposite, I have always been pleasantly surprised or the coin looked exactly as expected. Of the coins I have won on GC, I kept ten (10) for myself and I am very pleased with my purchases. 1995 CENT - LINCOLN, MEMORIAL DDO PCGS MS66RED CAC 1876 FIVE-CENT PIECE - SHIELD, NO RAYS PCGS XF45 CAC 1886 DIME - SEATED LIBERTY, LEGEND OBVERSE PCGS MS63 CAC 1854 HALF DOLLAR - SEATED LIBERTY, NO MOTTO ARROWS PCGS VF35 CAC 1858-O HALF DOLLAR - SEATED LIBERTY, NO MOTTO PCGS AU50 CAC 1951-S HALF DOLLAR - FRANKLIN PCGS MS66 CAC 1964 HALF DOLLAR - KENNEDY, SILVER PCGS MS65 1921 SILVER DOLLAR - PEACE LIBERTY HEAD - HIGH RELIEF PCGS AU53 CAC 1972-S EISENHOWER SILVER DOLLAR PCGS MS65 CAC 1979-P DOLLAR - ANTHONY WIDE RIM PCGS MS66 Bidding, tracking, and paying all work very smoothly on GC. I have never had any problems in this area, nor have I ever had any web access problems, as I have with some other high traffic auction sites. Coins were well packaged and shipped extremely quickly. As a collector who enjoys purchasing CAC coins, I appreciate that Great Collections Auctions has such as vast selection of CAC coins in each Auction, so there are always affordable and expensive CAC inventory to choose from. I have no complaints to write about, and I plan to purchase additional coins from Great Collections Auctions in the future as my funds allow. I highly recommend you check their site and start bidding. I find that I get the nicest coins relative to the price I pay on GC, far better than HA and other places with more traffic. A few of the highlights:
