Nicholas

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S*#% sorry 15-20KAUD = 8-10K GBP

I'll take the oxford 2/6d any day.

Current price still holding around 15-20k AUD (10-15kGBP) at auction for say a pretty decent VF but slowly deteriorating. Probably half the price they were 10 - 15 years ago.

To me that's the key to the value of a coin in this internet driven global market. Namely if you can buy one similar on the internet within day a week or perhaps 2-3 months it's just not that rare. If a coin comes up in an auction that you never see in a year or more then it's value skyrockets. It's the same in all collectors realms. If you can find one on the internet the next day it's common. For example, in Australia there was once a great rarity called a 1930 Penny. Before the internet that is. Today I could find one in 24hours and have it delivered in 2-3 days anywhere in the world. Hence the value is dropping. In fact there are a few hundred out in the market now circulating, yet in the olden days you may have only seen 1-2 per year for sale.

It's a brilliant guide. We all use it including the rest of the world. We're just working out some of the science behind it which in the end is rather arbitrary anyway. This price guide sets your sell price as well as your purchase price. So it should even itself out in the long run..

It's in the strike. Slightly uneven and not quite fully struck up. It's very prevalent in the Victorian coin reverses especially the sovereigns. It's usually one of the first place I'll look...

Id think that Spink would list this coin as £10 if no varieties are listed. They may state that rarer varieties exist.

I always thought that spink just priced the most common variety. If a rare variety is listed in the catalogue it is priced separately. No blending.

I'd say Mr Skingley has a fair bit of maths and calculation involved with countless numbers of cross checks from one period to another with a fair whack of market influences and updates as well. It is one of my favourite books to read at bedtime. .

My guess is that this type of elite coin is only in the realm of the big Aussie dealers and the 1920S becomes the jewel in their crown. And they have the buyers network in case they need to convert it back to cash...

Not much. If a handful popped up then the value might be downgraded to a common variety 1819 G3 Sovereign

Let's just say that the Noble team are all over 70 years old (sorry Gerhardt!) and have only embraced internet technology with a toe-in-the-water approach...

Hi I collect Charles I and English civil war coins mostly. They're hand made and look old. I'm not sure whether it's about the aesthetics of these coins for me or the unfolding of this history of this time and how production methods started from the Briot machine made high point deteriorating to the cut pieces made at the final desperate royalist strongholds ...

Yes, it's very common practice to feign rarity in the marketplace by controlling and limiting market output on many coins. But not this Lot.

I believe the 1920S Soveriegn is Aussies rarest coin...

Fell off my chair. All of the great Australian sovereign rarities . Wow ! Type 0ne Adelaide Pound in really good nick, 1920 Sydney Mint, 1855 fully brilliant ... Where did they come from?

Entirely possible and BTW vendors are paid on time and independently of whether the buyer takes the extended plan or not. Terms are 25% down up front then you set up the EPP (extended payment plan) for 4 equal payments for the remainder over 4 months. Hence I have definitely bid beyond my means with heritage! So, either start sending some decent hammered to the US or get DNW, Spink, Baldwin et al to set up the same in the UK...

I have to admit that the "take 4 months to pay " option at Heritage Auctions is brilliant. It means I can bid on a coin and then sell coin at another auction house to help pay for it. Only problem is there are very few really interesting (hammered) english coins sold at heritage. Wish some of the english auction houses had payment terms...

I win this Kings Private Road pass with boe?

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Thanks guys. Just under 400 GBP incl comm. Can't tell really if that's a good price until I see it in person ( and crack it out- sorry NGC, but I like touching my coins)

Snuck this one through in 3rd tier priced Session 3. Off centre, due break/clash? But never seen a groat quite like this strike..

I've always thought that it takes 2 generations for rarity through age of a coin to kick in. For example, if my grandpa who as a young man in the 1910-20s had kept any coin in his pocket that was BU (straight from the bank) would be a valuable coin here in Australia (say at least 1000 AUD). Only a handful of modern rarities in my lifetime( or near enough) have escalated example 1955 Perth proof penny .. The rest boring

No luck. The auctioneer looked right into the camera when he waited for the next internet bid. Once I would have sworn he was looking right at me!!55k for the alf the great monogram penny, 40k plus for both lizzy gold. Top end market prices. Lovely coins.