Coinery

There you go again, Dave, stop copying my posts!

I would also have thought, in view of the prestige of owning coins from old catalogues, that, having important coins from a private collection featured in the Spink cat., would've mostly been a desirable thing! Notwithstanding the fact they probably have most of the images they require on file? Maybe they need an decent IT guy who can dig them out of the bowels of their hardrive?

Yes, but Spink's have sold better coins than the 1578 3d I'm referring to! They don't need public contributions!Irony is it doesn't even have to be a 1578, it could be something rarer (mint mark) that they may sold as a single lot previously?

People strike all the time! I wonder how easy it would be to shake the echelons of power by boycotting a Spink sale, declaring, stop taking the...? Give us a decent website, put some decent images in your expensive book, stop eating peeled grapes, you're falling behind!

It's just about aesthetics, and the art of the whole thing! Just seems a really lazy thing to do? In a copy I'm looking at, a very common elizabeth 3d and halfpenny are clipped and damaged, an unnecessary inclusion into what is after all an expensive purchase?

Haven't you got a job to go to, you're forever replicating my posts? Or am I replicating yours? Any thoughts on that price, it's surprising? Having said that, is your rarity lumped in an S-number with all the common stuff?

How does that compare, is it a C1 shilling? Is it a levelling out of prices for that series? Edit: EF and rarity material aside!

I can't open the images as I'm out at the moment with a poor connection. However, for further clarification, when you say creeping, do you mean in a malign way? I mean, have you watched these develop? If not, it's likely the result of old, old, grease on the coin, which has protected the surfaces from taking a tone? That's my first guess, at least?

60/275 and 100/450 respectively. Thanks! Looking pretty stagnant as well, then! I did expect a small rise in the 6ds as a lot have sold really well in the auctions this year! Made me realise I sold a couple of coins a little too cheaply to a fanatic Liz collector! I really like him, though, so it's OK! I believe Chris Comber advises on most of his purchases.Edit: predictive text issues!

Come on, tell me you didn't know this was going to happen? Can I ask a favour? What are the F and VF values of 2561 and 2577? These numbers best represent the non-rarity values of the Elizabeth sixpence and shilling, IMHO. 2013 had them: 2561 65/240 and 2577 110/450

At risk of putting a silver moon in that dark night, though?

If it's the green, acetone on a cotton bud would probably ease that away?

Yes, it's a real shame! However, if the reverse was anything like the obverse, it would never have made it onto the market in my lifetime. The Sword's an uncommon mark too, to have the mark, and a good reverse strike combined, would've been a jewel to be held. That's a potentially obvious, but sometimes ignored point Stuart, if the coin was more perfect, you would never have acquired it, because it might never have come to market or have been too expensive for your budget at the time ... can't we kind of say the same for all the coins in our collections?Yes, I'd say that's true, as it would only be a deceased estate, or an important collection put together by an advanced collector who'd reason to break it up, that such coins ever become available. You only realise when you start looking around for those perfect coins, how very few there are!

Yes, it's a real shame! However, if the reverse was anything like the obverse, it would never have made it onto the market in my lifetime. The Sword's an uncommon mark too, to have the mark, and a good reverse strike combined, would've been a jewel to be held.

Isn't it ever! Definitely one to cry about!

OK, so that's it for this side of Christmas! The G5 1930 Halfcrown has just listed, and that was the final coin of the day!

Another 15 starting tonight (G3 farthings, Liz 6ds, 1930 HC, and a few more Lizzies), and then that's yer lot for now!

Now there's a man who knows his way around eBay!

Racing on too fast with old Auctiva templates, as usual! Good spot!

Oh, too late for apologies now, Paul, he'll be giving you what for, and no mistakin'!

Of course, I knew you were just throwing ideas at it, young Paulus! I do appreciate it, you know! ❤️ And, by the way, your C1 shilling is full-on eye candy, one of the most pleasingly balanced reverses I've seen, really nice die! I couldn't say so on the 2014 thread, just in case TG was looking in, you know what he's like?

Absolutely! Whilst nobody on high could ever admit it, shill bidding is in eBay's best interest! If they can make it more difficult to detect, without crossing any boundaries, why wouldn't they? Hey, ho!

And to be honest, re unique bidders, knowing the number of assailants doesn't help one little bit in whether you win the coin or not. Or, for that matter, how much you bid as, in all reality, you only have your top bid, and the top bid of one other person to contend with!

I should add, of course, that an auction house could be seen as an endorsement, but, equally, eBay packs a pretty punch in favour of the buyer nowadays, so is as much an endorsement as the aforementioned...privately listed or not.

What benefit from knowing how many unique bidders, though? Because, as Rob effectively says above, a bid's a bid...a coin bought in an auction house is a private listing, and also has an undisclosed number of bidders until the hammer falls? Oh, and not forgetting honestly!