SilverAge3

So much wrong here besides 1985 Vic. The screenshots from a different eBay listing, not even cropped. The price. The AI description.

Have you tried a different browser? I'm not saying it'll fix it, but sometimes these browsers flake out in various ways. You may also try closing and clearing the cache for firefox, then restarting it. Or even uninstalling and reinstalling.

Look at Britannia's stick arm!. This isn't of the simian type, is it?

I'd get some nonregals, but as Paddy said, not for $575, and hope a proclaimed expert selling it would divulge it as such. I messaged the seller. See what they do. Many of them ignore me. Which always detracts me from other lots of theirs even more, even if several looked promising.

I'm not very familiar with ½d, especially from this era, does this one look really off, or am i mistaken? https://www.ebay.com/itm/235650100917

Looks like delamination.

780 includes juice, but not shipping /insurance, or tax (which varies by state/city). The shipping fee alone is likely 20-35, and tax may add on an additional 5 to 10% (or none, in some areas). Getting close to 820-900, depending where one lives. Bit spicy.

I had bid on it, but bowed out a few bids ago

He should be corrected. Granted he gets prickly and blocks people for all sorts of reasons. I won't buy raw coins off him. He's savvy enough to get his nice pieces graded, but lists cleaned pieces as BU or similar. I know some people he blocked because he used photo trickery to hide the cleaning, and they mention it. Sadly it's the US market as a microcosm (he's French, by background, I hear, but very much operates like so many US sellers). Rare to find good, wholesome raw coins here. There are some, but also lots of problem coins in disguise.

Stephen Album's (SARC) auctions aren't nearly as frequent as HA, Stack's (SB), Great Collections. The other three pretty much only deal in slabbed coins now, with rare exceptions . While sarc does handle raw pieces, generally these are lower quality condition, often sold as mixed lots, don't get very nice photos, if any, and so generally won't bid up well for you. I agree with the idea to slab better pieces, as it's just how the market is here in the US, but obviously avoid doing so for lower-priced items, as grading is so expensive, and slow. If a coin is not worth $100, at least, if not even a good bit more, keep it raw. But for better pieces, it's frankly going to do far better in a plastic slab, and NGC could even attach a Collection name to your submission, if you desire (I imagine it costs more money). Take time going through sold listings on eBay and all the auction houses, compare to similar grades. I concur with selling especially raws on eBay, or privately to individuals, including offering some in forums, or Reddit coin selling subs. I know someone who works for Stack's, but he focuses on US, especially dollars. You could also try to find world coin dealers, see if they'll give you a decent offer for raw less expensive items as a lot. I know a few coin shop owners, one or two through Discord who might be interested (and they'd buy it all raw, submit pieces to TPG they feel are worth it, which would probably be quicker, but less money for you), though I can't comment on their offered prices, I've not sold. Obviously anyone you sell to wants to make money, but do your research on recent sold listings, so you're not going to be taken advantage of. If you're interested, I can post the links to Reddit subs used for selling coins, as well as the Coin Discord server, where most users are in the US, but many of us collect world coins, plus some of the aforementioned dealers are in there. You could pose this opening post query in there, to get feedback from them. Just let me know if any of that interests you. You may find splitting it up among a few places worth your time. The best graded pieces especially are sure to be best suited for large auction houses, where more participants are to catch bidding fever.

Oh yeah, I've bought off of him, only from his auctions. He does get some decent pieces from around the world he auctions.

I laugh, but it's true.

I've grown increasingly more interested in coins of the Colonial era of the New World, as well as extensions of that. Coins minted in the US from the Colonial period, (and EAC, Early American Copper), and really in general, for anything historical, are just too absurdly priced, but plenty of other coins were minted, notably by Spain, and its colonies. So far I only have bought a single 8 Realest from Mexico, a much later Caps and Rays type. I've got one book in hand I've been reading, The Practical Book if Cobs, by Sedwick and Sedwick, and in the mail is a copy of Pillars and Portraits. Has anyone here gone down this research path or collected New World silver or gold, whether cobs or milled? (I won't be pursuing any gold Escudos, but would be curious to see pieces anyone might share).

A shop in the States has a copy I'm contemplating buying. It's $50 with shipping and tax, so hoping it's a decent buy.

If anyone is interested in German Coinage, and is up to using the Discord platform, there is a great Germanic Coin server on there. I'm sure I could get whomever an invite.