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Sign of the times?

Sums things up in my town.......

In the kind of case I'm thinking of, the sale has essentially been concluded online, the buyer's money deducted from his bank account, and an "auto" receipt sent, courtesy of the seller's own software. So when it comes to this:- No problem with the first bit of the above - it will definitely be a genuine and honest mistake on their part, but with regard to the emboldened text, you could almost certainly argue that the buyer will have noticed, because from their perspective they've spotted a bargain. However, the contract of sale is surely complete by default, as the seller has left it to his own software to oversee the transaction? The fact he offered the coin at the wrong price, and wasn't supervising the sale itself, is down to his own carelessness, and the buyer has bought in good faith. In my opinion, any rate.

I wish I'd thought of the question myself, as with hindsight it's bleedin' obvious. Sturgeon has long been showing her admiration for anything not English or better still anti-English. A bad case of my enemy's enemy being my best friend IMO.

I somehow intuited that you would respond along those lines Rob.

Scotland under the SNP

My guess (not a legal definition!) is that if the sale is concluded, it's tough luck on the seller - the buyer has bought in good faith and cannot be compelled to return the item. However, if a buyer asks for the coin at the price offered, the seller is within their rights to say the price is a mistake. The buyer cannot compel the seller to sell an item where a clear and obvious mistake has been made.

Caused by Brexit is suppose .

I guess it really depends just how good the provenance is. Largely I'd say about 5% for "good" provenance, but if it was e.g. ex-Freddie Mercury and documented, possibly up to 30% (as long as there was also enough meat left for a margin )

A ticket can tell a lot. I bought this coin in Stewartby and didn't recognise the significance of the ticket when cataloguing at the time. However, on reflection the characteristic H in 'not in Hawkins' screamed Webb, and the Sotheby 21/5/74 didn't make sense until I realised it was 1874, at which point the not in Hawkins made sense because Hugh Howard was an Irish collector who died in 1738 but the collection was sold 136 years later at Sotheby's 20-22nd May 1874, which is why Hawkins didn't know about it. Suddenly, an unquestionably rare but not particularly appealing halfgroat had a load of history added, so I bought it instead of ignoring it as I would have done knowing there is a better one out there. The Lockett provenance didn't do any harm either. I like provenances. Edited to add. What is better? A 60 year old provenance going back to Lockett in 1956, or the knowledge of where it has been for the past 281 years, even if I am unable to account for the first 267 years of its existence.

A new acquisition - I've always loved the legends on this token. The story is that Bladud, decendent of Aeneas' companion Brutus, was a leper who kept a herd of leprous pigs, and could not become king of the Britons because of his leprosy. However, the pigs were miraculously cured by bathing in the waters of the Bath spring, as was Bladud, who returned to found the city after his coronation. To me, the token is conservatively VF+ but with a big patch on lustre on the bottom half of the obverse which I haven't captured very successfully in my photos.

Peck 730

Nice recent pickup A/unc after near 180 years