banknotes

[freddyyjones]

would any body know the value of a 1943 Netherlands Indies 50 Gulden Note. P-116a(EB-3379.

[declanwmagee]

would any body know the value of a 1943 Netherlands Indies 50 Gulden Note. P-116a(EB-3379.

£15 - £21

[freddyyjones]

cool just that i saw on a banknote web page there were selling on there for $275 and other places were $50 so i wasnt to sure.

[declanwmagee]

cool just that i saw on a banknote web page there were selling on there for $275 and other places were $50 so i wasnt to sure.

Yep: Lesson One in this game is that it is not an exact science. People price in all sorts of different ways. Take my humble little shop, for instance. I've got a few coins in there that I have priced ridiculously high because I genuinely don't want to sell them - I just want people to know that I've got one!

Other coins I'll price quite low becuase I've got a few of them and I want to get them moving. I bought a tube of UNC 1955 sixpences a while back, for instance, 50 of the little blighters, so I make sure I've always got one in the 99p auctions. doesn't mean they are worth exactly 99p. Some weeks I sell one, some weeks I don't, some weeks they even get a little bid flurry going and I might get £2-£3 for one.

Something is worth what someone's prepared to pay. You will see buy it nows from America for all sorts of junk at ridiculous prices - it means nothing.

A good tip, perhaps, is to look at Completed Listings (it's a checkbox on the Advanced Search page). That will tell you what prices people have actually achieved for the item you're interested in.

Of course, the really exact way to tell is to sell it on a 99p start. It's worth what you get for it!

[Peckris]

Other coins I'll price quite low becuase I've got a few of them and I want to get them moving. I bought a tube of UNC 1955 sixpences a while back, for instance, 50 of the little blighters, so I make sure I've always got one in the 99p auctions. doesn't mean they are worth exactly 99p. Some weeks I sell one, some weeks I don't, some weeks they even get a little bid flurry going and I might get £2-£3 for one.

I can't remember if it's 1955 or 1957 I've got on a polished blank - probably 1957 as it's a much commoner date in UNC.

[declanwmagee]

Other coins I'll price quite low becuase I've got a few of them and I want to get them moving. I bought a tube of UNC 1955 sixpences a while back, for instance, 50 of the little blighters, so I make sure I've always got one in the 99p auctions. doesn't mean they are worth exactly 99p. Some weeks I sell one, some weeks I don't, some weeks they even get a little bid flurry going and I might get £2-£3 for one.

I can't remember if it's 1955 or 1957 I've got on a polished blank - probably 1957 as it's a much commoner date in UNC.

Well that's jolly interesting - wonder why they would do that?

Ties in with reading the 1922 penny thread; there has to be some documentation somewhere detailing what they did and when, if not necessarily why. When I was a suit wearing wage slave I had to submit costed justifications for buying a printer cartridge, so changing the nations coinage must have gone through some written scrutiny, you'd think?

I've still never heard any convincing reasoning for the more well known 1961 halfcrown polished flan business...

[Peckris]

Other coins I'll price quite low becuase I've got a few of them and I want to get them moving. I bought a tube of UNC 1955 sixpences a while back, for instance, 50 of the little blighters, so I make sure I've always got one in the 99p auctions. doesn't mean they are worth exactly 99p. Some weeks I sell one, some weeks I don't, some weeks they even get a little bid flurry going and I might get £2-£3 for one.

I can't remember if it's 1955 or 1957 I've got on a polished blank - probably 1957 as it's a much commoner date in UNC.

Well that's jolly interesting - wonder why they would do that?

Ties in with reading the 1922 penny thread; there has to be some documentation somewhere detailing what they did and when, if not necessarily why. When I was a suit wearing wage slave I had to submit costed justifications for buying a printer cartridge, so changing the nations coinage must have gone through some written scrutiny, you'd think?

I've still never heard any convincing reasoning for the more well known 1961 halfcrown polished flan business...

One theory had it that 1961 polished blank halfcrowns were using up stock prepared for 1953. There's problems with this : 1. the number of 1953 proofs are a nice round figure, they'd have known precisely how many blanks they needed. 2. Why wait 8 years to use them up?

And anyway, there are several dates from the 1950s which show up using what seem to be polished cupro-nickel blanks - I have a ?1955 halfcrown on one, and a 1960 halfcrown. More likely it seems to me, is that the Mint were experimenting with the kind of mirrored finish that became common in the early 1970s. Yes, you'd hope for documentation for sure!