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Garrett

Noble sale 108 - March 24-26

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Thought I would start a thread on the upcoming Noble sale.

Catalogue not up yet at www.noble.com.au

I was just flicking through the highlights though, and saw a gorgeous Anne farthing.

While try to attach a screenshot.

I saw her first. Mine, mine , mine !!

Just kidding, I stick with the one I have.

cheers

Garrett

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Thats a hell of an estimate £1500 with the juice if it realises the estimate

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Must admit it's a beauty though , wish it was mine.

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I'm sure i've seen this one recently somewhere

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Yes, I like to check them out. Not a lot of success bidding with them but have gotten a couple of Vicks in the past from them that were nice coins & fairly graded at sensible (?) prices..

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I bought an Anne because I had to. :wacko:

I have avoided proofs and tin to a certain extent but still pursue varieties.It is a lifelong pursuit.

LOVE IT.

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I bought an Anne because I had to. :wacko:

I have avoided proofs and tin to a certain extent but still pursue varieties.It is a lifelong pursuit.

LOVE IT.

Peter,

Sounds like you have life sorted.

Purely as a matter of interest why have you avoided proofs?

Mark

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Personally I avoided all non-circulation coins for a while (when I first started more serious collecting), i.e. proofs, Maundy, patterns, etc,, because at the time I kinda thought well if they haven't even been designed for circulation, there's not much difference between these and modern tat churned out by the RM, Westminster, et al.

Plus, if no-one has ever even handled these coins, that diminishes their sense of history (social and otherwise).

Perhaps my appreciation for numismatic items in general has expanded, since a do now possess some of each ... partly because avoiding such uncirculated items would deny me of appreciating some true works of art in at their very best :)

Do others feel the same?

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As a general rule, I just can't afford them....

However, as you alluded, I do prefer the sense of history of coins that actually participated in commerce and served their purpose of being minted....

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I just like coins, whatever their purpose may have been. Plus I like patterns for a feeling of what might have been given the ornate designs regularly proposed but never adopted. I also like proofs for the better strike. Strangely though, i don't have any desire for a medal collection.

As there are many issues which are not found as proofs, or at least not remotely available even if they exist, a few proofs alongside a few coins that don't exist as proofs gives quite a nice broad balanced collection IMHO. Nothing should be excluded just because of its identity. Even I have a dozen or so bronze pennies with a few gaps waiting to be filled for example. :ph34r: Irrational, but that's life. ;)

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Yep, and that's become another factor for me ... balance. Even without being a date completist, or a micro-variety collector, milled silver until 1816 can look very samey - a splash of different colours and designs, history and intrigue keeps me going :)

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I just like coins, whatever their purpose may have been. Plus I like patterns for a feeling of what might have been given the ornate designs regularly proposed but never adopted. I also like proofs for the better strike. Strangely though, i don't have any desire for a medal collection.

As there are many issues which are not found as proofs, or at least not remotely available even if they exist, a few proofs alongside a few coins that don't exist as proofs gives quite a nice broad balanced collection IMHO. Nothing should be excluded just because of its identity. Even I have a dozen or so bronze pennies with a few gaps waiting to be filled for example. :ph34r: Irrational, but that's life. ;)

Proofs are stunning examples of the coin and can be used as an example of what minutiae to look for, for the variety collector (assuming the same die or die combination)... I like them, I simply cannot afford them...

Patterns can give a fascinating and insightful perspective of contemporary thoughts and views at the time of its design...

Some patterns can and are more attractive than the adopted design (granted that it is subjective and arbitrary) and some are beyond pedestrian and are strictly utilitarian...

Happily, most fall somewhere in between..

Needing to put boundaries on the extent the collection, I have limited it to circulation strikes only...

That being said, I do have a severely scratched half penny (F-287 I think) , a circulated pattern copper penny (I'm not home and don't know the Peck # offhand) and a holed 1714 Queen Anne farthing...

One tends to acquire things despite oneself....

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I bought an Anne because I had to. :wacko:

I have avoided proofs and tin to a certain extent but still pursue varieties.It is a lifelong pursuit.

LOVE IT.

Peter,

Sounds like you have life sorted.

Purely as a matter of interest why have you avoided proofs?

Mark

Mark

I like the currency issues.

Nothing against proofs but my buzz is circulated currency.

I would love to meet up for a pint. :)

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Ugggh, near nil there...

I suspect the Skipton Castle Collection on Heritage will be more to your liking, VS. However, given the number of MS 65, 66 & 67 grades, the prices are sure to be stratospheric.

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We have a little investment coming out in June of which the current Mrs Peter is unaware.

Now should I be a bit naughty or a lot naughty?

Her lottery syndicate won over £500 each and she spent it on herself and our daughters. :o

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Hi Nick. Yes, you are right about the Skipton sale. Interestingly, the focus seems so much on the high grade pieces that sometimes rarities in just slightly lesser grade can be had in such sales at good prices. I think I bragged previously about picking up an 1889 small head shilling in "only" MS66 for the same price as the lesser bits because there were some MS67 pieces of common dates that drew bidders' interest. Oops, let that cat out of the bag...

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