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<p>[QUOTE="Terence Cheesman, post: 4959880, member: 86498"]I do have some experience in consigning coins to auction having consigned close to 3000. I have used Severus Alexander's AMCC, CNG , Goldbergs, Naville and Triskeles The last is now not operating. The first thing I would say is.</p><p>1. Contact the auction houses and find out what is their consignment fee structure.</p><p>2. Be absolutely ruthless with your appraisal of your coins. If you can look up your coin type in the search engines and see what they are doing in auction. This may help in choosing which auction house to send your coins. Also be prepared to use different auction houses for some of your coins.</p><p>3. Put as much information as you can in the documentation of your coins. Reference number weights If the coin has a pedigree definitely put it in. Coins with any kind of pedigree will often do twice as good as those that don't</p><p>4. In your mind place a realistic value on the group of coins you are sending. No matter what you send out some coins will do well others will die. One coin I sent out, a coin that I thought should make about $200 suffered from Ghastly picture disease. The picture was so bad I could not believe that it was my coin. It went for the opening so needless to say I lost money. However the group almost doubled what I had hoped to get so I was happy. Somebody got a decent coin for almost nothing. I could probably think of other things but I am a bit tired and I think I covered the main points. So okay one of the coins I bought with the proceeds of my sales.</p><p> Ptolemy I Ar Tetradrachm Alexandria 306-300 BC Obv Head of Alexander the Great right in elephant skin headdress, Rv Athena Alkidemos advancing right Lorber CPE 74 Sv 176 15.75 grms 27 mm Photo by W. Hansen[ATTACH=full]1192331[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Terence Cheesman, post: 4959880, member: 86498"]I do have some experience in consigning coins to auction having consigned close to 3000. I have used Severus Alexander's AMCC, CNG , Goldbergs, Naville and Triskeles The last is now not operating. The first thing I would say is. 1. Contact the auction houses and find out what is their consignment fee structure. 2. Be absolutely ruthless with your appraisal of your coins. If you can look up your coin type in the search engines and see what they are doing in auction. This may help in choosing which auction house to send your coins. Also be prepared to use different auction houses for some of your coins. 3. Put as much information as you can in the documentation of your coins. Reference number weights If the coin has a pedigree definitely put it in. Coins with any kind of pedigree will often do twice as good as those that don't 4. In your mind place a realistic value on the group of coins you are sending. No matter what you send out some coins will do well others will die. One coin I sent out, a coin that I thought should make about $200 suffered from Ghastly picture disease. The picture was so bad I could not believe that it was my coin. It went for the opening so needless to say I lost money. However the group almost doubled what I had hoped to get so I was happy. Somebody got a decent coin for almost nothing. I could probably think of other things but I am a bit tired and I think I covered the main points. So okay one of the coins I bought with the proceeds of my sales. Ptolemy I Ar Tetradrachm Alexandria 306-300 BC Obv Head of Alexander the Great right in elephant skin headdress, Rv Athena Alkidemos advancing right Lorber CPE 74 Sv 176 15.75 grms 27 mm Photo by W. Hansen[ATTACH=full]1192331[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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