Nordle11

I was the underbidder It was at 50 when I put 200 down, I figured it would get up to 100 odd which isn't all that bad considering it was actually a very nice 1934 in itself, and added an extra 100 because of the missing waves. I did wonder if someone on here nabbed it.

Here's the one I've got, couldn't put up a picture before. Looks very similar, albeit a bit manky haha.

Your picture is much more representative of the coin I think. It was good to have two sets of photos during the auction.

I believe it to be a flawed planchet. I have a similar one on a 1d.

I don't think you need to worry about treating the wood if you're keeping the coins in quadrums. When you get round to it Brian, start a thread and post some pics while you're doing it, would be great to see it progress!

That could be the case, although my maximum was over what it is worth, at least in my opinion. It was the only lot I wanted so was happy to pay over the odds as I've only seen perhaps one other like it. I couldn't see anyone else going as high as I went. Anyway, lesson learnt. Either attend personally, low bid, or no bid

At least I got a free club membership from it I suppose. Where do we meet to malign LCA?

Lucky I didn't put an even higher bid. I only knew they opened with it because there were members from here that were in the room at the time. I would've emailed querying it, but we all know I either wouldn't have gotten a response or probably told to bugger off.

One thing that really p***** me off with the last LCA auction was that I put a high bid on one coin as my maximum, it was way over the higher estimate, and because it was via email and I wasn't in the room they just opened the bidding with my maximum and of course that was the hammer price. Even though it states on their website; "...this does not mean that you will pay the maximum, you will pay the next bidding step up from the under bidder." and "Bidders will supply their maximum level and London Coins will execute this instruction at the sale, lots may be obtained for less than the maximum bid." Needless to say, that wasn't how the CC auction went.

I quite enjoyed that type of auction, but I suppose I was bidding and not selling. I think I would prefer an auction house though because I think they have a bigger client base and can therefore reach more customers. I would also say that the quick-fire and pressured situation an auction brings might cause some people to bid higher than they should, because you don't have the luxury of time to think.

Great write up, well done Seuk.

Yes be prepared for that, but don't be disheartened. It happens to us all, even as you become more experienced. Sometimes you take a punt and it turns out to be nothing, other times not. It's all part of the fun.

Get yourself to a coin fair Chapps, there'll be an excellent selection just to browse and get a feel of what you like. For example, pictures cannot prepare you for how small a farthing actually is. All coin denominations look the same size when they're squared off and blown up in photos. Welcome by the way

Excel for the details, prices paid, Freeman/Gouby references etc. and a website for the photos.

Need a nice one with lustre. Mine looks like it was cleaned at some point and I've never got round to upgrading it, it's always there mocking me.

Stop drinking so much in the evenings Jon

Obliged? No. A cruel and heartless person? Maybe. I'm sure all these errors will get ironed out.

Haha you lot are terrible.

Oof! Don't let the other half see the invoice

Just got the invoice for mine from Neil.

It's probabable that no-one will get any information until the whole auction ends, i.e all bids are finalised. I know if it were me running it I would want to wait for it to finish before preparing the invoices, just in case missing someone out who is still bidding etc.

Seems to me like they should have sat down and worked it all out before just changing everything and losing clientele. They still haven't got any 'agents' listed and you still need to have a membership to even look at that part of the site which is just silly. Very unprofessionally handled IMO, although going by their customer service that seems to be the status quo for CGS.

Which 3 Danz?

I suppose he's waiting for replies from the other bidders on the two not changed to sold before he marks it as sold.