Advice on coin auctioneers

[MickM 5]

I am looking for information on auctioning coins.

I have a number of likely lots mid range - c £200 reserve, 1/4d, 1/2d, 1d. A better example is an 1869 1/2d in AUNC.

I have used LCA with mixed results and was wondering about others, DNW, Lockdales etc.

Any advice would be very welcome.

Thanks

 

 

[Paddy 1,542]

I tend to use DNW - I have found them very reliable, and their identification and grading is far more robust than LCA. I have not used Lockdales or any other Coin specialist auctioneers yet, so I can't comment on them.

[Gary D 76]

1 hour ago, Paddy said:

I tend to use DNW - I have found them very reliable, and their identification and grading is far more robust than LCA. I have not used Lockdales or any other Coin specialist auctioneers yet, so I can't comment on them.

I've always looked on Lockdales as being a bit of a provincial auction house, definitely second tier.

[secret santa 2,013]

I can't speak as a seller but as a buyer, I think that DNW are the current leaders - their website and pictures are excellent, they conduct business on the internet and so command a larger audience, and their delivery service is as good as any. I'd imagine they pay their vendors promptly but have no experience. They answer emails promptly and responsively.

[azda 973]

I'd agree with secret santa

 

[1949threepence 3,366]

I agree with all the above. DNW are by far the best. Very smooth, professional organisation. 

Also very pleasant to deal with when you contact them by phone - you get an intelligent, coherent person with whom you can have a normal conversation with. Increasingly rare these days.   

[azda 973]

11 minutes ago, 1949threepence said:

I agree with all the above. DNW are by far the best. Very smooth, professional organisation. 

Also very pleasant to deal with when you contact them by phone - you get an intelligent, coherent person with whom you can have a normal conversation with. Increasingly rare these days.   

Somehow LCA came to me 😚

Edited December 29, 2018 by azda

[VickySilver 775]

I agree that I like them best, but as a seller? I don't know what they would charge for 200-500 quid lots, and that is the question. Baldwin's is likely not the choice for those calibre  of lots.

[Peter 615]

Lockdales is fairly local to me and in the flesh inspection negates useless pictures.

 

[MickM 5]

Thanks all. DNW it is.

 

[Peckris 2 2,043]

Dan Daley of Lockdales used to be pretty sound, as was Stephen Lockett (the "Lock" in Lockdales) but I'm not sure he has any interest in them these days.