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I think its safe to say that Most of these coins are out of reach of the "normal" coin collector

https://www.stanleygibbons.com/medias/sys_master/8861642424350/coinindex2012.pdf

What i don't get is if these coins were already overpriced and as a few here have stated "of average quality" why were they bidding to excess, where do they believe any profit will come from and how long do they expect to hold onto these investment coins before a profit can be made. Once they've been split from the Slaney collection the provenance of the coin obviously still applies, but would they still be as "desirable" saying they've come from Merrill Lynch for example. I've seen coins at Londoncoins sell 4 years previously come back to be sold there again and have only achieved the same/similar price or less after a few years, surely this would suggest that a collector would'nt be fooled by a previously realised price. The only other thing i dislike is dealers selling "investment" coins, what if dealers get it wrong? I posted a short story of an Australian dealer selling an "investment" coin for several hundred thousand AU dollars, when the buyer came to cashing in his chips the coin was sold or valued at half of what he paid and successfully sued the dealer for his money back plus what they Said it would be worth, the dealer went bankrupt due to this. So where can this GB200-350 and 500 lists be found, i think it would make interesting reading

Cheap coin with 90 mins to go. Being sold by Alan from MHCOINS. 27 watchers, so it may still rise 271862767305

Maybe a few of us here should club together and do something similar?

They'd run out of numbers, Dave! I think it would be interesting to see what the Liz groat would grade as if the above is an AU53. Looking through their website population report i can't find any hammered in there.

I seriously need to send some of my hammered to NGC if thats the grades they're handing out

As i normally don't Do slabs i can't answer that but someone on here once said they bought a coin at auction from Londoncoins at whatever grade they graded it at, sent it to CGS for slabbing and it came back lower than the auction grade

Just goes to show that the collection name helped it along a smidge

3 if those coins brought 500k on their own

I hope if anyone is bidding that you're bidding through their website, saving 3% as if it really matters at these prices anyway

Lot 451, whats with that large A in Maria on the OBV and grade of GVF?

I'd assumed that was you.There are some mind boggling numbers here. Very important not to get caught up in the feeding frenzy. I think the name Slaney is doing Most of the pushing and people wanting an associated coin

Gosh, no! Not enough pennies at present for purchases. What was the hammer on that one anyway?.£1000, i was there at £950 and did'nt have the Heart to push it one more

Bugger.............busted Lot 411 should be interesting

Underbidder on lot 336. was that you Richard?

Nice bust on that Bad boy with a little bit of red in the top quarter REV shield. Wax or tray?

Superb one DaveShe almost looks appealing there

Nearly forgot about this one

Ok, it can be good news, but then why ask inthe submission for a value when its obviously them dioing the valuing

And oor Liz

Boy king

So sent my coin in with option 1 ticked with a value 3 times greater than i paid for the coin which still was'nt near £200. Got my invoice today and they're wanting £23.99, so i've emailed and asked why they're charging an extra tenner

Its now at £450, it was £600 when i posted the ebay number. I offered him £25 but thank god he rejected it

Sounds like a bargain to me. Tell him you'll send the funds from your Nigerian account.