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Paddy

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  1. Yes - I know. That is why I am in such a dilemma! I dislike slabbed coins and would never buy one for myself - unless I planned to break it out. However if spending £50 getting it graded would turn it from a £400 coin to £1000 coin, it makes sound business sense. The profit I could then use to buy more coins for my own collection! 🙂 

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  2. That's kind. Please PM the contact the details.

    I suppose the question I don't know is whether on the Australian market slabbing will make enough difference in the value to make it worthwhile? Personally I hate slabbing, but one has to go with the market.

     

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  3. I am posting this here in the hope that anyone with knowledge on Australian coins can comment.

    I recently picked up at auction this 1967 silver one dollar coin. I have found it easily enough on Numista - see: https://en.numista.com/catalogue/exonumia78083.html

    It is a "Fantasy" Swan dollar, issued in 1967 by the editor of the Australian Coin Review because the government had declined to create one when they went to the dollar system. It is apparently quite scarce - only 1500 issued at "currency" standard, and sought after by Australian collectors. Of course the Chinese have produced fakes, but I am pretty sure it is not one of these - it passes the tests suggested at https://www.australian-coins.com/collecting-coins/1967-australia-1-dollar-pattern-crown-goose-dollar-90-silver-copy-coin-counterfeit-fake/ and also I saw it arrive at the auction house, kicking around in the bottom of an old tin with a Victorian Crown and a few other silver coins, straight from a house clearance.

    I can see a couple on Ebay, typically listed in the £1500 bracket, but both slabbed. One has sold at an offer, presumably a bit lower than that.

    I do not plan to hold onto mine. It goes against the grain, but should I get it slabbed? If so, with whom? How best to go about it - I have never had anything slabbed before and baulk at the cost! What grade and value would it make (roughly) slabbed or unslabbed?

    Thanks for any advice.

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  4. On 9/22/2022 at 10:59 PM, Peckris 2 said:

    Thanks for that. Interesting discussion (several comments from @Paddy - he hasn't been on here for many months. Anyone heard from him, is he ok?).

    I found this while I was trawling back through all the posts I had missed.

    Thank you all for your kind thoughts - as you can see I am now back in circulation, though probably less active than I used to be. Unfortunately life sometimes gets in the way of the important things in life - like coins!

     

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  5. A belated reply. I can't help with Col Leigh, however the coin is not at all scarce. A couple of years ago I bought a job lot at an auction of over 100 of these early Indian sub-continent coins for very little money. I suspect in the modern age of metal detectors they are turning up in huge numbers in India. They were low value when they were made and have remained that way!

     

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  6. Fortunately I do not desperately need the money. It is more a case of moving on the custodianship of these little pieces of history rather than leaving them to moulder in a box. When I eventually pop my clogs I suspect my relatives will give little attention to the collection and simply bung the lot into a local clearance auction. Some lucky dealer will get a windfall, or worse some shyster will melt the silver down for scrap!

     


  7. Thanks for the tip. I am already selling off my low value "stock" - I used to deal a bit - through a local auction house. If I do decide to sell the main collection, it will probably be in a lot of private transactions/small auction lots spread over several years.

     


  8. 10 hours ago, Peckris 2 said:

    If you decide to sell please send me a PM

    OK - will do. At present I am stuck at a cross roads - do I sell the lot and cash in, or do I continue collecting. Rob's list of shillings has a couple that would fill gaps for me, so I am tempted to get them.... 

     

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