Lcn Lot 1706 - 1905 Halfcrown

[Colin88 54]

What do you think?...on close up the 'lightly rubbed area under chin' is actually a group of dinks....pity , its a nice coin....the one MP sold to MR recently was the best one i've seen for years....still looking then..

[azda 979]

MP to MR. Who is MR?

Edited February 22, 2014 by azda

[Paulus 1,975]

MP to MR. Who is MR?

Mark Rasmussen?

[Colin88 54]

Er.....Mark Rasmussen

[RLC35 288]

MP to MR. Who is MR?

Mark Rasmussen?

Who is MP?

[rpeddie 119]

member of parliament

[Paulus 1,975]

MP to MR. Who is MR?

Mark Rasmussen?

Who is MP?

Could it be Dave's friend Martin Platt?

[azda 979]

Sorry Colin, did'nt realise i wastoo know who the elusive M R was supposed to be, many permutations, and of course MP is Martin Platt, i'm just surprised Ras bought this from Platt at that Price, in fact i'm just surprised he bought from Platt period. Obviously it does'nt matter who People buy from as Long as there is something in it for the individual.

[rpeddie 119]

Im guessing these 2 guys are pretty well known for buying British coins? they along the lines of a British version of P.Newman or something ?

[Accumulator 52]

Mark's a very well known, high end dealer who certainly know's his coins. I imagine it will either appear in his next published 'list' or he already has a buyer for the coin, possibly in the US. Whatever one may feel about MP, it was a stunning example.

[Peckris 579]

You're all talking about a coin and no-one's posted a link!! Would someone mind...?

[Paulus 1,975]

Im guessing these 2 guys are pretty well known for buying British coins? they along the lines of a British version of P.Newman or something ?

I see you have a title of 'RP Coins' on your website ... lol ... our very own Rob (Pearce) uses that also!

http://www.rpcoins.co.uk/

Many of the coins on Mark (Rasmussen's) web site are eye candy (and priced accordingly), you might want to take a look?

http://www.rascoins.com/index.cfm

[rpeddie 119]

Website is in the initial stages not really done anything yet can change name if names are too similar (rp isnt really key just my name really so can remove that if it causes confusion)

waiting on those LED lights mentioned in a thread about a month ago before i start taking pictures of stuff (Ikea ones but 5x cheaper from china,well see how it goes )

will be some good stuff for sale i'm just worrying about prices and grades i list as i dont want to make myself look silly

[Accumulator 52]

You're all talking about a coin and no-one's posted a link!! Would someone mind...?

It was a 1905 half crown sold by Martin Platt on eBay a few months back, so it's no longer listed now and no photo is available (unless anyone made a copy).

[Colin88 54]

Sorry Colin, did'nt realise i wastoo know who the elusive M R was supposed to be, many permutations, and of course MP is Martin Platt, i'm just surprised Ras bought this from Platt at that Price, in fact i'm just surprised he bought from Platt period. Obviously it does'nt matter who People buy from as Long as there is something in it for the individual.

Mark Rasmussen isnt that elusive and if my information is correct then he bought that halfcrown very cheaply , well under the price it was on for on eBay....it was probably the finest example any of us will see in many a year....MP must have bought it extremely cheaply to let it go at that price......

[azda 979]

I did'nt say Mark was elusive, the initials were. Our forum leader had a 1905 to rival this one which i believe he sold or was selling for 10k

As for buying cheap, well i would'nt say

8k or 10k is cheap, but the prestige of owning and selling a prime Example would help business immensly, even if it meant making just 1k on it. My assumption is that platt paid a fair bit for it, if

Not, why sell within an hour or so of listing it for less than the list price

[azda 979]

Just curios how you know that Mark bought this, is it on his site?

[Peckris 579]

I did'nt say Mark was elusive, the initials were. Our forum leader had a 1905 to rival this one which i believe he sold or was selling for 10k

As for buying cheap, well i would'nt say

8k or 10k is cheap, but the prestige of owning and selling a prime Example would help business immensly, even if it meant making just 1k on it. My assumption is that platt paid a fair bit for it, if

Not, why sell within an hour or so of listing it for less than the list price

Vastly overrated at that sort of price IMO

[azda 979]

I did'nt say Mark was elusive, the initials were. Our forum leader had a 1905 to rival this one which i believe he sold or was selling for 10k

As for buying cheap, well i would'nt say8k or 10k is cheap, but the prestige of owning and selling a prime Example would help business immensly, even if it meant making just 1k on it. My assumption is that platt paid a fair bit for it, if

Not, why sell within an hour or so of listing it for less than the list price

Vastly overrated at that sort of price IMO

Perhaps so Peck, but lets not forget that it was actually for sale at 12k so Platt had to put out in a fair chunk to pull out a profit, lets not assume he got this privately as we know he mostly buys from auctions and scours the internet worldwide like the Rest of us do. He would have paid a nice price for this. If you had the money Peck, would you have turned it down saying its overpriced? Would you have offered him half his 12k only for him to laugh at you? Edited February 23, 2014 by azda

[Peckris 579]

I did'nt say Mark was elusive, the initials were. Our forum leader had a 1905 to rival this one which i believe he sold or was selling for 10k

As for buying cheap, well i would'nt say8k or 10k is cheap, but the prestige of owning and selling a prime Example would help business immensly, even if it meant making just 1k on it. My assumption is that platt paid a fair bit for it, if

Not, why sell within an hour or so of listing it for less than the list price

Vastly overrated at that sort of price IMO

Perhaps so Peck, but lets not forget that it was actually for sale at 12k so Platt had to put out in a fair chunk to pull out a profit, lets not assume he got this privately as we know he mostly buys from auctions and scours the internet worldwide like the Rest of us do. He would have paid a nice price for this. If you had the money Peck, would you have turned it down saying its overpriced? Would you have offered him half his 12k only for him to laugh at you?

Yes. Because I could get some wonderful early milled for that kind of money, and no doubt an EF 1905 for a couple of grand if I really wanted. Or an underrated Unc 1908 or 1909 for less than a grand.