Look at these auction records !!

bidask

https://or-numismatique-monaco.com/en/interesting-results

syl

For the hammer price for some of them, you could buy a comfortable house away from the coast in the US.

scubafuel

Out of all of those, the gold 1896 British trade dollar may have been the one to buy!

TwoKopeiki

Is this how you're keeping track of your purchases, @bidask ?

Boosibri

I feel like I’m getting priced out of the things I collect. Or damn close to it!

pruebas

@Boosibri said:
I feel like I’m getting priced out of the things I collect. Or damn close to it!

That’s what I said after ANA 2021.

Edited to add: And at that time, people were saying that collectors would just move to more affordable coins rather than exiting the hobby. Not exactly sure that will be the case, but we will see.

@Boosibri what will you do if you can't find anything suitable for your collection (as you have defined it) that you can afford? Would you redefine it, leave collecting, or something else?

bigmarty58

@Boosibri said:
I feel like I’m getting priced out of the things I collect. Or damn close to it!

I agree, prices on good dates and attractive coins have me mostly watching at this point.

bidask

@TwoKopeiki said:
Is this how you're keeping track of your purchases, @bidask ?

No not me !😄
But I have to wonder if these coins are being bought by collectors in the US or across the pond ?😏

SYRACUSIAN

It is just a heads up from one auction house only. Numismatica Genevensis has been consistently smashing record after record for 20 years now and just a few months ago, NAC sold this lot, a record for this coin

https://www.arsclassicacoins.com/biddr/#!/auction/lot?a=2063&l=462

Boosibri

@pruebas said:

@Boosibri said:
I feel like I’m getting priced out of the things I collect. Or damn close to it!

That’s what I said after ANA 2021.

Edited to add: And at that time, people were saying that collectors would just move to more affordable coins rather than exiting the hobby. Not exactly sure that will be the case, but we will see.

@Boosibri what will you do if you can't find anything suitable for your collection (as you have defined it) that you can afford? Would you redefine it, leave collecting, or something else?

I think my first thought is be that my budget would still allow for me to buy the coins I want, just significantly fewer of them. My second thought is that many of the coins I want or have in my collection today, I wouldn't perceive to be worth the cost at the new levels and may evolve my focuses accordingly.

bidask

@SYRACUSIAN said:
It is just a heads up from one auction house only. Numismatica Genevensis has been consistently smashing record after record for 20 years now and just a few months ago, NAC sold this lot, a record for this coin

https://www.arsclassicacoins.com/biddr/#!/auction/lot?a=2063&l=462

Wowee !

jt88

@scubafuel said:
Out of all of those, the gold 1896 British trade dollar may have been the one to buy!

I totally agree with you. In fact this is the first time I saw such gold trade dollar. I searched HA and did not find any sales record.