Your dream coin?

[Gary1000 41]

My dream coin would be the rocking horse crown in gold. It's the one in my 20th centry run of crowns that is just not going to happen.

[Rob 3,002]

From the same sale.

[jaggy 528]

From the same sale.

WOW ... for this and the other one.

[PWA 1967 1,841]

How much was that rob ?>

[Peckris 579]

How much was that rob ?>

If you can ask that, you can't afford it

[Rob 3,002]

The Gothic was Y44m and the 1935 crown Y3m. You will have to work it out in £. The date was 22/11/2008 at the 20th Ginza sale in Tokyo.

[Nick 325]

The numbers work out at approximately £305,000 and £20,700 respectively.

[Rob 3,002]

Plus premium, but I don't know what percentage it was. The figure of £336K all in rings a bell though - so presumably 10%.

Edited November 27, 2014 by Rob

[Paulus 1,942]

That's a bit more like what I would have expected! What is the record price paid for a British coin, anyone know?

[damian1986 142]

That's a bit more like what I would have expected! What is the record price paid for a British coin, anyone know?

The Edward VIII sovereign from earlier this year? £516,000 all in.

For silver there was the reddite crown that sold at Spink earlier this year for £396,000 total.

There's my pick for the dream coin.

In terms of dream coins that aren't wholly inconceivable purchases the Oxford crowns and pounds of Charles I and then you could just close your eyes and point to anything in the Emery May Norweb collection of Anglo-Saxon coins (SCBI 16) and that'd do.

[Rob 3,002]

That's a bit more like what I would have expected! What is the record price paid for a British coin, anyone know?

The Edward VIII sovereign from earlier this year? £516,000 all in.

The Edward VIII was lot 949 in Tokyo. That made Y29m hammer.

[Gary1000 41]

From the same sale.

Yes

I think I'll order myself one from China as a gap filler.

[Nicholas 51]

An E1 groat (not ex mount) nice VF

[Coinery 926]

An E1 groat (not ex mount) nice VF

I can't recall ever seeing an ex-mount groat?

That seems a lowly dream coin for your usual quality taste in coins?

[Nicholas 51]

Perhaps let's say I have eclectic taste.

Alright alright

An E3 double leopard ... found by me with a metal detector

Edited November 28, 2014 by Nicholas

[Coinery 926]

Perhaps let's say I have eclectic taste.

Alright alright

An E3 double leopard ... found by me with a metal detector

[Rob 3,002]

An E1 groat (not ex mount) nice VF

I can't recall ever seeing an ex-mount groat?

That seems a lowly dream coin for your usual quality taste in coins?

Most of them have been gilded or mounted in the past. VF is a high enough aspiration.

[Coinery 926]

An E1 groat (not ex mount) nice VF

I can't recall ever seeing an ex-mount groat?

That seems a lowly dream coin for your usual quality taste in coins?

Most of them have been gilded or mounted in the past. VF is a high enough aspiration.

Why would most of them be guilded or mounted? It's certainly not what I'm seeing.

I could understand it if it were 6ds, as these have clearly been holed and presumeably worn by later generations.

And pennies, of course, for guilding!

[Coinery 926]

VF isn't a really difficult grade for an E1 groat, either! Certainly not in the context of the sort of coins Nicholas generally buys.

[Rob 3,002]

VF isn't a really difficult grade for an E1 groat, either! Certainly not in the context of the sort of coins Nicholas generally buys.

Now the groat has dropped. Nicholas and I are talking about Edward 1, not Elizabeth 1. When he said E1, I automatically knew what he was talking about and didn't even stop to consider E1 as they are quite common and not so desirable. You're too Tudor-centric Stuart.

[Coinery 926]

Doh! Makes sense, now! I thought an Elizabeth I groat was a low stab at the numismatic bag!

[Nicholas 51]

Yes Rob! Edward I Groat. Very rare on the auction scene. And almost never VF or better...

[Prax 80]

1952 Penny

[Bronze & Copper Collector 401]

1952 Penny

My birth year... Yay!"""""

[Peckris 579]

1952 Penny

My birth year... Yay!"""""

Me too!! Fight you for it...