Spink yesterday

[pokal02 44]

Bidding seemed very high to me - started with ambitions to reduce my seven missing groats to five, but wasn't even the underbidder on my two. (Someone got the Richard III York groat in GF for £5,200 - so why did they let the Motcomb and DNW specimens, both AVF, go for £5,000 earlier this year?) Were people paying over the odds for the Stewartby provenance?  It wasn't only groats - even indifferent hammered 1d's were going at four figures (don't know enough to know how rare they were).   Oh well, on to DNW. 12 Dec......

Did anyone on here get anything at a reasonable price?

 

[azda 979]

I skipped past Spink this time, there wasn't a great deal in there for me, St James was much the same today, a few passed, obviously reserves were set high. I just wonder if we Brits are a little scared to jump above book prices sometimes

[Rob 3,152]

I got 14 lots this time, which was better than the first three sales. Some were above book, others below.

I managed to tick 7 episcopal issuers which I was very chuffed with together with a few other criteria. To put it into context, I have spent the last two and a half years at York, Harrogate, Wakefield and the Midland trying to get decent examples of specific medieval bishop pennies from provincial mints and have picked up precisely none. The Stewartby collection might not be the highest grades in many cases, but is comprehensive enough for the nerds amongst us to fill our boots. There are significant numbers of issues that simply don't exist in better than VF or sometimes even lower grade, so you have to take VF or below. The book might only give a price in VF of 100-150 for a given coin, but very often it's a case of you try and find one at any price

It would not be unreasonable to say that a lot of the coins in the collection have never been seen by even specialist collectors. Roll on part 5

[Matteo95 120]

well said Rob

I tried to buy some lots of my interest but nothing I wanted to add some coins published on the Stewartby's book after the irish pennies that I won last June ... maybe next time I will be luckier ...

[Rob 3,152]

Good news, just picked up a 15th lot which I shouldn't have stopped bidding on yesterday - another one I've not seen before

 

[Matteo95 120]

13 minutes ago, Rob said:

Good news, just picked up a 15th lot which I shouldn't have stopped bidding on yesterday - another one I've not seen before

 

you are insatiable .....

[Rob 3,152]

46 minutes ago, Matteo95 said:

you are insatiable .....

No, there is a finite number of coin varieties.

 

[VickySilver 848]

Not to pirate, but does anybody know what the two 1905 half crowns fetched in today's St James (Lots 207 & 208)?

[Nordle11 564]

13 hours ago, Rob said:

No, there is a finite number of coin varieties.

 

No, sorry, he's right. You're insatiable   

[Rob 3,152]

I still have 5 or 600 boxes to tick, what else can I do but make hay while the sun shines?

Edited December 1, 2016 by Rob

[mhcoins 95]

9 hours ago, VickySilver said:

Not to pirate, but does anybody know what the two 1905 half crowns fetched in today's St James (Lots 207 & 208)?

7400 & 6,600 hammer