If you've inherited a coin collection, or you're clearing out coins that have sat in a drawer for years, working out where to sell them in London can feel daunting. You might not know what you actually have, whether it's worth anything, or who to trust with the answer. This guide breaks down your realistic options, what actually determines what you'll be offered, and how to avoid the most common ways sellers end up underselling.

Section 1Your Main Selling Options

Each route trades off speed, price potential, and how much of the work (and risk) sits on your shoulders. Here's how they actually compare.

Section 2Why Consign to a Pashiz Coins Auction

If your coins are the kind that would genuinely benefit from competitive bidding — rare, high-demand, or part of a coherent collection — consigning to auction is often the route that gets you the strongest price. But the auction industry's traditional model asks a lot of the seller: long waits, opaque fees, and once your coins are handed over, very little visibility into what happens next. We built our auction service specifically to fix that.

From the moment you consign, we handle everything — you don't lift a finger beyond the initial handover:

In short: no photography, no writing descriptions, no dealing with buyers, no chasing payment, no arranging shipping. You consign your coins and we handle every remaining step of turning them into a payout.

Section 3How Our Timeline & Payout Compare

This is where consigning with us differs most from a traditional auction house — and it's worth understanding clearly, because the gap is substantial.

Section 4Single Seller Auctions (SSA)

Section 5Our Fees

Traditional auction house commissions typically run 10–20% of the hammer price. Ours are structured to reward first-time and repeat consignors alike.

• Your first consignment — completely free of charge 0%
• Standard consignments thereafter — competitive, tiered pricing 0–10%
• Dealers & regular consignors — our best rates, for an ongoing relationship as low as 0%

Compare that to the market standard of 10–20%, and the difference is significant — particularly for higher-value collections, where a few percentage points of commission can represent a genuinely large sum.

Section 6What Actually Determines Value

• Rarity — not just the coin type broadly, but the specific date, mint, and variety. Two coins that look almost identical to a non-specialist can have very different values depending on subtle differences only a specialist would recognise.
• Condition/grade — a documented, third-party grade (NGC/PMG) removes ambiguity about condition entirely, and typically increases what buyers are willing to pay.
• Authenticity documentation — coins with a clear provenance or existing certification sell faster and for more, because they remove the single biggest risk a buyer takes on.
• Current collector demand — value isn't fixed; some areas (Islamic coinage, ancient Greek and Roman issues, certain Persian dynasties) currently see strong, active collector interest in the UK market.
• Completeness of a set, or thematic coherence — a collection that tells a coherent story is often worth meaningfully more as a whole than the same coins sold individually and unexplained.

Section 7Preparing Your Coins Before You Sell

A few things worth doing — and avoiding — before you approach any buyer.

Cleaning is the single most common way sellers unintentionally destroy value. Even gentle cleaning can remove original surfaces, toning, and patina that collectors and graders specifically look for, and it's very difficult to undo — if a coin looks dirty or worn, leave it exactly as it is and let a specialist assess it in its current state.

Section 8Frequently Asked Questions