Kipster

Now the building work has nearly fiinished, I've had the chance to go through a few bits I have. I may be looking to move on a few graded modern proof sovereigns that I have no real affinity with. All NGC graded PF70 UC. This may not be the best place to move them on so I might just punt them out on ebay, but if anyone has any interest in this type of thing, just drop me a pm and we can see where we go. Cheers.

I have the following up for sale: 2002 Golden Jubilee Sovereign PF70UC 2005 Timothy Noad design Sovereign PF70UC 2022 Platinum Jubilee Sovereign PF70UC If anyone is interested, message me before I ebay them. All have COA's and boxes. Will do free SD postage.

I'm having to sell before I can buy now, so I know what you mean.

Agreed. They all have great eye appeal and some of those numbers are an insult.

Some extremely high end pieces in that auction. Likely as not beyond the reach of most of us. One bit of provenance particularly interested me, that one of the coins was wrapped in a piece of newspaper from 1705 or something of that era. Amazing to think.

His other items are equally as bad...

Thanks Pete, Will have a better look when office is back to normal

Can I just check if this looks like an 1853/2 please? Ta.

Noone will ever convince me that the crypto world wasn't created by Putin to destabilise financial institutions in the West. A quote attributed to Mayer Rothschild: "Give me control of a nation's money supply, and I care not who makes its laws". There is a worldwide spiderweb of criminality at the highest levels in Russia, linking the literal godfather of Russian organised crime, Semion Mogilevic, to Putin and his emissaries. Cyber crime is his meat and veg, and he plays the very, very long game...

Very nice indeed.

I hope it went to the shill and not a genuine bidder. Big red flags all over the place with this seller looking at his response.

Yep, on the desktop, but fine on mobile.

Has anyone been watching the St James auction this morning? Some big numbers being reached. A 1954 VIP proof farthing graded PR66 just hammered for £2,000.

I've just had the St James Argentum catalogue through, and noticed that their buyers premium is now 24% + VAT, same as Noonans. Not sure if this has just happened or if they've had it a while, but I certainly didn't pay that when I last bought from them. It's only 5% odd extra, but it's all getting a bit expensive now. They know they're shooting fish in a barrel, but how long before the fish get canny?

Hi Pete, will PM you. 👍

That's about where I would have gone up to if I wasn't spread too thinly on other things. Did you per chance nab any of the proof farthings in the LCA this weekend?

Just PM'd you Pete. Cheers.

And that one is an absolute stunner. Ir was CGS graded and I believe it was regraded by NGC as MS64. Looked far better to me.

Guy Fonquernie and Richard Regnier both run it. Guy has some unbelievable pieces in his collection and is a penny collecting man. Richard does the silver side of things. They haven't updated any stock on their website for at least a year, so probably concentrating on auctions now.

The drawing looks more like Mary, Queen of Scots to me.

If it went to you, hats off.

Very nicely done. I was bidding on that as well and you pipped me to it. 👍

Picked up this penny at auction recently. An F139. The variety hadn't been noted on the slab so I think it slid under the radar. Not the most beautiful coin in the world with a couple of issues, but far, far superior to my current example, and picked up for a very reasonable figure (I think).

An interesting link for anyone into ancient English coins and history. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/new-king-esunertos-hampshire-coin-b2432256.html

There have been some unusually high prices hammered by coins in a few auctions recently. Some which had absolutely no right to get anywhere near the figures reached. Call me cynical, but it all seems rather suspicious to me. Perhaps someone's doing some laundry...who knows...