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  1. Nicholas
    alternatively bid on lot 316 in September DNW Auction http://www.dnw.co.uk/auctions/catalogue/lot.php?auction_id=297&lot_id=287 Yeah baby!
  2. Nicholas
    Good day rob?
  3. Nicholas
    On closer inspection: Weird tone, spots, marks- looks chemically dipped uneven wear, strange shapes.. And those doubled rim denticles. ..
  4. Nicholas
    burnt. Just off the bat , the kings portrait has a number of problems, most obvious to me is a flat and shapeless neck
  5. Nicholas
    Can't see exactly, but the cromwell crown die break looks smoothed. Auction houses should admit to this - in a couple of cases I've seen evidence of smoothing the die break and it being described as "early state of die break' or some similar cover up ...
  6. Nicholas
    Oh yeah haven't checked the catalogue. Yeeeeoouuucchh!!
  7. Nicholas
    I think the H7 Sovereign is Group I. Didn't know they existed on the market...
  8. Nicholas
    Not like me to help a US auction house, but OMG - in a parallel universe I dream of buying these coins... http://stacksbowers.com/Blogs/crossing-block-tudor-gold-sovereign.html
  9. Nicholas
    Point taken. For those watching though, these were the coins that didn't sell in the numismatic circular by and large. Known as the "end-tail" effect!
  10. Nicholas
    Like the 928 and 924, the 944 was a tragic design mistake that came and went like a fart.
  11. Nicholas
    Right Lux! Mine was 2.4 S in viper green with190 bhp and quite light - ridiculous colour but loved it at the time! You could hear the flywheel whirring when changing down gears and the throaty air cooled engine. It was very quick but had a nasty oversteer with the emgine hanging heavy in the back - a Porsche racing driver taught me how to manage the oversteer.. Push down the throttle and let go of the wheel then catch the wheel when pointing in the right direction.. A ride!!!
  12. Nicholas
    I remember trawling through the spink coins online shop some time back- fun. But as a business probably not a great idea -nothing ever sold!
  13. Nicholas
    We didn't have the 911L only the T, E, S and RS models. L stood for?
  14. Nicholas
    Just look up the slab number on the appropriate web site NGC, CGS, PCGS and check the image is the same as your coin...
  15. Nicholas
    Made a few bad investments since then.. !
  16. Nicholas
    Australian dollars..
  17. Nicholas
    I used to drive an old 1973 Porsche 911 S to and from unii. Bought it for 22k, sold it 7 years later for 45k. My first good investment...
  18. Nicholas
    Not exactly sure, but I believe Cameo is a word used to describe a particularly nice proof with mirrored fields and frosted devices.. In the US markwt, the grading is what it is and whether true of not, the grade shown is pretty much the grade used by the market to value the coin. This may change when you crack it open!
  19. Nicholas
    Also BTW, that merc you buy instead will halve in price in the next 5 years.
  20. Nicholas
    BTW, the London coins example is not close. Ebay coin is graded PCGS PR67 on the Sheldon scale equating to approx CGS PR92 (much higher than PR80)
  21. Nicholas
    Exquisite but exorbitant. How does the seller justify this? My guess is the power of the US market that looks at populations at every quality grade and proof 67 cameo would have to be at the very very top. None higher. This certainly drives up price a great deal. but its still 2-3 times too high IMO. I've Only seen 1 maybe 2 like this.
  22. Nicholas
    Exactly. Eddy in a zombie film. Sorry sir!
  23. Nicholas
    Yes, they're doing the rounds.. IMO although a piece of history the oxidation of the tin looks so bad you might think it could get worse over time. So Blue chip investment? If they were perfect absolutely..as they are maybe not. Hopefully the british museum may pick them up now that spink has them!
  24. Nicholas
    Some auction houses give preference to the room for example if the room just meets the maximum auto/proxy bid then the room wins. I haven't read the fine print of the DNW house rules
  25. Nicholas
    Couldn't resist! http://s1322.photobucket.com/user/2tearsinabucket1/media/image_zpsa6843f7a.jpg.html?sort=9&o=16 and had a pretty good experience on DNW new online auctioning site..and from my iPhone ..
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