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  1. Posted

    I have searched through a few references for this and cannot find mention or explanation.

    Basically just looking to see if there is any information on why these denominations were chosen, and what were they trying to achieve by straying from the norm?

    A few of the suggestions i already have found through past questions, is these values were chosen simply to differentiate between the official issuance and to mark them out more clearly as a token issue, but I would like to hear if there are any other reasons for going down the route of different denominations.

     

  4. Posted

    4 hours ago, VickySilver said:

    Well, I thought the auction was to begin at 1 PM EST. Where I got that I don't know....I think I remember when Spink offered these year sets and seem to recall them going for a bit above market but that they were overall superior sets. I agree with the above that the 1/2 C. drove the 1930 set, although more than I paid for the very scarce proof of that year.

    I must say that 2500 IMO is over the top. I might have gone 1500-1800 range.

    On the 1935, that was an exceptional crown but max value should likely have been in the 600-800 range, with the others of negligible value. So I would not have been there above 800 whatsoever in any case. I must stress that the currency crown without wear is quite rare (as an example, one key area just as with the Wreaths is the cheekbone of George and also his brow, mustache, jaw and ear; also for some reason there seems to be a large field area on the reverse that takes hits as does St. George's shield and sword, etc.).

     

    Good on you that won lots!

    I'm not sure if you remember i shared with you my 1928-1936 1/2 crown "hoard" a few years ago? this 1/2 crown period is my vice

    I agree with pricing and that's roughly where i stopped for those lots, i agree with the crown comment too, trying to find a high quality cheek(without pitting)/moustache well struck and a rocking horse that hasn't got great big dings in it is an exceptional condition rarity and deserving of the price if you are looking for perfection.

    Do you have images of the legendary 1930 1/2 crown at all? would love to see it 

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    1 hour ago, oldcopper said:

    And Colin had all the patterns as well, very comprehensive. It may be that as Ian Sawden only collected the majority of this stuff in a 3 or 4 year window in general about 10 years ago, so he just got hold of as nice stuff as possible that (a) was available at the time, and (b) that he wasn't outbid on. So quite an achievement in that brief timespan.

    I'm surprised he got so much of his stuff from London Coins if he lived abroad, because they don't have online bidding, so he would have had to get someone to bid for him each time, unless he was temporarily living in the UK at the time. Still he certainly scored with those florin patterns, many bought from LC!

    One thing he did miss out on (unless he bought and sold it) was the lot immediately following the gilt twopence in the DNW 2010 sale. This was the lustrous currency 2d which went for £850 hammer. It then turned up at Heritage Auctions 6 months later slabbed as an MS66 RB (despite a noticeable depression in the field on the obverse) and fetched > $7000!

    Now why didn't I bid on that......

    Had to look this one up, Quite a lot of damage to that one i cannot justify it as a MS66 myself, maybe a 64 with the amount of damage on the rev would be a fair grade.
    Damage by the branch Britannia is holding and "big" dings by the date, along with a scratch across the fields on Britannia side too.

     

    Although saying that believe there is a 3 to 1 weight for the grading of the head side/obverse (lots more long flat areas for necks/cheeks being high points make it easier to grade circulation wear, good examples where rev hides wear due to design intricacies is Morgan dollar and jubilee 1/2 crown) 

    so maybe there is some justification using this weighting that it is a MS66 example as the portrait side is pretty much perfect and it must look amazing in hand(need a coins in motion video of this example)

     

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    9 hours ago, Rob said:

    I was pleasantly surprised at some of the prices today. I bought 3 lots today all for me - the W3 Y sixpence, which means the ex-Slaney coin will be returning to Manchester after nearly 2 decades on holiday in East Anglia. Also bought the 1821 6d and finally, the 1837 threehalfpence, which wasn't on my list, but it would have been rude not to bid at that price. :)

     

    very nice definitely good additions, i missed out on a lot of the earlier lots as i haven't bid with CNG for a while and didn't realise i had to create a new account and register for approval, luckily i noticed around lot 100 so had a couple hours to authorise before the GV series.

  7. Posted

    ahh i was bidding on the 1928-1936 lots so might have driven some of this, i won just 1 of them had to let the 1935 go early as i was only interested in the MS67 6 pence from that.

    1930 was a little higher than expected, all the rest of the coins in that lot weren't all that special, price purely driven by the 1/2 C (which is top pop but wasn't marked as such) 

     

    Did you win any of these? some deals on the wreaths i feel

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    3 hours ago, blakeyboy said:

    Nice one.

    Glasgow is 'abroad' now?

    🤣 feels like it sometimes

     the original sales were cancelled and relisted, i got the £3k one of those the other £800 one is still up as it wasn't as tempting.

    Coin above is the 1926 20 cents commemorating the wedding between the final  emperor PUYI(at that time abdicated and on his way to become a Japanese puppet)

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    36 minutes ago, Peckris 2 said:

    The only thing that p*sses me off is that having selected an (upcoming) auction as part of a search, it doesn't remember that, so when you search the next coin(s) you have to also select the auction again.

    definitely annoys me too, if you want to lose it though go to spink and try search for something, if you still have the stomach after that go to baldwins.

    Heritage has to be the best, at times even things miss-spelled come up, and the heritage coins come up in google image search which speeds up the process of finding the price of something :)

    Side note, the worst coin to find online sales history of is the 1 1/2 pence, there are so many different variations of what it can be called.....

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    8 hours ago, PWA 1967 said:

    Everytime i have bought Lots from DNW the website has worked really well and always received the day after paying ,obviously geared up properly and Hat off 👍

    Well wrapped aswell without all the daft sellotape some Auctioneers and Dealers use ,one lot i bought at an Auction house a couple of weeks ago they just put the coins in bubblewrap all together ,with selloptape wrapped round.

    I assume the capsules are ones that you gave them with the coins Nick ?

    I have always been impressed with DNW, their website worked really well even way back in 2013 when i got my first (and profile pic) coin from them. 

    They have a little work to do on their Archive search(works pretty well but not 100% there, needs a bit more standardising for denominations)

     

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  16. Posted

    2 hours ago, VickySilver said:

    I remember that SNC with great fondness as during the mid-90s to about '03 I bought some fabulous coins from it at real world prices, with some literally museum pieces that I probably have no business  owning.....wonderful coins were still on the list by the time it made it over to the USA. DIdn't hurt to be on the pre-pub list as I got faxed some offers..

    I tried to look up some coins for research purposes and as above get NOWHERE on their site. I suppose that the Newman Portal may have some info.

    the Spink site is probably the worst i have used to try find past  auction info, seems like it cannot handle more than 1 word in a search,

     

  21. Posted

    I think its to do with insurance, not 100% sure because my example is the other direction.

    Outgoing(international) my Post office dude told me above £200 insurance it will need to go Parcelforce but under £200  it will go royal mail(USPS).

     

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  23. Posted

    Hi,

     

    Looking to see if anyone has access to the CGS website and is able to get authentication of a coin for me?

    the website is a shambles and i thought they would move away from £99 required to even verify coins, unless i'm completely misunderstanding their website

    Coin number is 15534, what would be perfect is a screenshot of the pop report/image etc

  24. Posted

    to add my statistics and a bit of defense on the RM side, ive sent about 600 items recorded in the last 3 years, only 1 has been lost.

    The 1 that was lost was my own fault really, i send everything recorded even if it is a £6 sale. I ran out of international tracked/signed bar codes and forgot to ask the PO worker to send recorded. A £135 token to USA went missing and i couldn't claim anything back unfortunately, keep an eye out for a Mary II rose pattern farthing/medallion  with very green toning.

    So 1/600 aint too bad, of those about 10 were dodgy Russian "oblast"(top pop 1911 florin is located there now) and a 1887 PF66 cam 1/2 crown uninsured to china that i was pretty sure were going to dispensary but made it there ok(pure greed on my part)

     

    Don't lose faith in RM, just don't ever send anything unrecorded unless you want to give it to them for free.

  25. Posted

    2 hours ago, Rob said:

    Coins have always been lost to the collecting community. The mint has been melting demonetised coins throughout its existence, or in the case of current coppers is trying to withdraw as many bronze coins as they can. Burglaries such as Willis in the 1970s it must be assumed have resulted in a number of unique gold coins being melted for scrap because they haven't appeared in the market in the ensuing 45 years. Stewartby's Scottish collection is still missing, which although destined for a museum still constitutes a loss. It's a fact of life that many bequests are made to museums, thus saving the coins in question for posterity, but in the case of many, safe from the public. I would like to assemble a full run of Somerset mints, but thanks to the only Petherton in private hands (the Lockett coin) being donated to Somerset Museum, this is no longer possible. I have to live with it because I certainly can't do anything about it.

    On a personal level, as per your above point, the unique Freeman 689A did a 7 month tour of the world's postal system before finally returning to Heritage in 2007. It was accompanied by a Peck 1156, so a potential loss where there were 1 and 4 known respectively, but the money was reclaimed following their non-arrival and the coins subsequently repurchased at the prevailing exchange rate once they had reappeared. That is the only unique example I have that has gone awol in the past.

    is there an inventory list somewhere of what is missing from Stewart collection?

     

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