spill the beans

[Debbie]

Now that the year is drawing to a close I thought it might be an idea to ask “How many coins did you buy this year?†I did a quick reckoning up myself and was shocked to discover it was 87 for me! (I thought it might have been around 50 ) I know some of you buy coins to sell on so will have probably bought many more and some of you more discerning gentlemen may not have hit double figures?

I think that my new year’s resolution will have to be working towards reducing the number and increasing the prices!

[Gollum]

5, I am cheap to maintain.

[Debbie]

Now stop pretending to belong to the "decerning" group Garry.

( No wonder you want to buy,buy,buy)

[Rob]

82 for me this year, though in mitigation, 29 of those were the Olympic 50p set because they had 26 new designers. There were also another 2 pieces of modern decimal c**p for the attributed designers section, so only about 50 in reality.

Edited December 30, 2011 by Rob

[HistoricCoinage]

I don't know the exact figure as receipts and invoices are all over the place - but well in excess of 100.

[Accumulator]

Probably only about 50 for me, but that does includes a few that cost rather more than I like to remember!

[Gollum]

I am very Discerning Debbie. I got a 2006 VC 50p today from the wife in her change as well. I now have to get the other one to match it

[Rob]

Probably only about 50 for me, but that does includes a few that cost rather more than I like to remember!

I concur. Unfortunately my powers of forgetfulness are not all they could be.

[Peter]

Probably from ebay about 50 (including a few 50p's )

Fairs 60+

Dealers 40+

Auctions 0 Blown out of the water too many times...I will have to attend.

Probably 40% wants 40% improvers & 20% sell on sometime maybe

Edited December 30, 2011 by Peter

[azda]

I just received 66 today, so i really can't put a number on it, perhaps 100 maybe more, but your idea of buying less for more Debbie is definately the way.

[Nick]

Just over 300 (mostly < £5 from eBay) for me, but only 175 turned out to be improvements on what I had already.

[Accumulator]

Probably only about 50 for me, but that does includes a few that cost rather more than I like to remember!

I concur. Unfortunately my powers of forgetfulness are not all they could be.

And it looks like its getting a whole lot more expensive. As an example, I noticed today that Spink's top price for an 1827 penny in their 2011 catalogue was £2800 in EF with no price given for UNC. That left the price open to negotiation. In 2012, however, they have suddenly listed it in UNC at £12,500! Any seller will now be looking for that kind of figure!

[Peter]

An Unc 1827 1d will come onto the market so rarely why do Spink bother...it will go to the highest bidder who probably ignores Spink....it's nothing more than a guess...and uneducated one often IMO.

If we get collectors paying 000,s for variety washers because they appear in a reference book I shudder what they will pay for a ....1827.....proper coin.

If you won millions on a lottery and you wanted the best 1827 £100,000 would be chicken feed.

[Accumulator]

An Unc 1827 1d will come onto the market so rarely why do Spink bother...it will go to the highest bidder who probably ignores Spink....it's nothing more than a guess...and uneducated one often IMO.

If we get collectors paying 000,s for variety washers because they appear in a reference book I shudder what they will pay for a ....1827.....proper coin.

If you won millions on a lottery and you wanted the best 1827 £100,000 would be chicken feed.

Now Peter's just raised the price to a 100k or more, it looks like I'll have to put up with this tat for a while longer

P.s. My name's accumulator and I'm a variety washer collector...

Edited December 30, 2011 by Accumulator

[RLC35]

I think there are only two (2) 1827 Uncirculated Pennies known. One was sold 3 or 4 years ago by Colin Cooke, and it brought an astronomical price for the time! I can see why the price has been raised...it is a really RARE coin in better grades!

[ski]

not so many really, cant be sure without checking records, but a couple of real good quality additions. only one auction win, with a few nearlys and lots of oh my gods how much?........maybe a better 2012.

deb's start going with the quality purchases, when you hold em in hand....priceless.

ski

[ski]

just checked....3 auction wins in 2011........old age is kicking in

[Peckris]

Now that the year is drawing to a close I thought it might be an idea to ask “How many coins did you buy this year?†I did a quick reckoning up myself and was shocked to discover it was 87 for me! (I thought it might have been around 50 ) I know some of you buy coins to sell on so will have probably bought many more and some of you more discerning gentlemen may not have hit double figures?

I think that my new year’s resolution will have to be working towards reducing the number and increasing the prices!

I bought two, which the Royal Mail has f**king lost. And they were only sent Recorded Delivery too.

[declanwmagee]

Well I had 1233 this time last year, and I have 1154 now. I have sold 703 this year, so that means I must have bought 624.

I too am concentrating on getting the overall numbers down and the average values up.

Average value per coin end 2010: £11.59

Average value per coin now: £18.05

Of course, being a date/variety collector, I still have all the cheap 20th century coins I bought early on, so it gets progressively harder to bring the average up.

[Boomstick]

I bought five, all from dealers - four Unc and an gEF.

[TomGoodheart]

I was surprised to see I've bought five. I thought it was less. And one of those I'm probably going to put on ebay. Unless anyone here wants it.

Charles I shilling for sale

That's the problem with having a specialist collection and few funds. I find myself less tempted by the run of the mill or scrappy rarities, but don't have deep enough pockets to upgrade everything I want to!