Have you seen the current bidding on the Koshkarian Sale?
Bear
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Some of the toned Frankies are already at 2550 and the live auction doesnt
start till tomorrow. Wow.
start till tomorrow. Wow.
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and you get a spelling tutorial.
Camelot
Did I say 'if'? Obviously, I meant WHEN!
roadrunner
Bears got big paws and we need big coins.
Camelot
Then you only have to buy me breakfast!
Personally, I consider anything over $3k a validation of my assertion about the coin. Considering it's already well past MS63 bid [MS64 as well?], that little bit o rub doesn't seem to be holding it back too much!
roadrunner
Bear - Since when are Frankies a serious coin topic?
Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
mmmmmm - I'm hungry!
Kyle
If I had it my way, stupidity would be painful!
roadrunner
Sometimes the look is much more important than the technical grade - especially if all you're talking about is a little bit of rub.
At some point you have to go back to the technical side. By the way did anyone view this coin and can give us a % of the orig mint luster remaining in the fields?
roadrunner
NGC MS-66 , the 1859 Liberty Seated Half in NGC MS-65, the 1948 Franklin Half PCGS MS-65 FBL
with lovely toning and the 1953-S Franklin Half in PCGS MS-66 with toning. Might be a few more later
on in the sale but the prices are a bit more then my expectations.
Camelot
"Seu cabra da peste,
"Sou Mangueira......."
WOW you have been a very busy little bear.
roadrunner
<< <i>with lovely toning and the 1953-S Franklin Half in PCGS MS-66 with toning. >>
Bear,
Me got's a few of dem thar purdy half doller's too. Sho was a fun bidden time.
Congrats!!
I also bid on and lost the following lots ;
1948-d, PCGS65 FBL, $1360
1952-d, NGC66 FBL, $2720
1953-p, PCGS66FBL, $2530'
1954-s, NGC66, $750,
1957-p, PCGS66 FBL, $1840
1958-d, NGC67, $1450
1960-d, PCGS65 FBL, $4140
I might even have been competing against the Bear without knowing it. Overall, I did win one lot, which contained 3 coins, one of which I had rated as among the 5 most eye appealing in the Franklin offering, and one other which was attractive as well. I guess I got a bargain of sorts -- the lot costs a little less than $1000.
<< <i>I also bid on and lost the following lots ; >>
I did'nt bid on a number of Franklin's I had an eye on as the prices were to rich for my blood. Picked up two that were reasonable however. This one for my wife's birth year set...she turns 50 on Thursday. It's a Happy Birthday gift.
I hope ANR won't mind me using their image to show it off.
the water on 9 of them. I guess I was more interested in the quarter and half no motto.
I sure wanted that there 1960-D toned Frankie, but didnt want to try to beat the 3600 plus
juice on the coin. It would have looked real nice hanging up in my den though.
All told, I won 5 lots. Dont think any of us were seriously compeating against each other
on the halves as I dropped out well below most of the tops.
Camelot
That was the toned set. The previous lot was an identical raw rosy set but untoned. It hammered at $100. The lucky winner plans to stick them in an album and tone them himself. How long do you think that will take?
All in all, the prices were incredibly strong -- even on the lesser-quality (nothing bad here) raw coins. Less than a dozen coins into the sale, the auctioneer commented, "Well, I guess we can throw the price book out tonight." -- and she was right! One lot started at $6k and sold for $40k...and then another made nearly as impressive a move...
The consignor was especially suprised at the prices the Frankies fetched. Two or three Frankie bidders with deep pockets, lots of pride, and little sense were in attendance -- but if they had so little sense, how could they afford to bid on these coins in the first place?
(Just think of city streets clogged with a hundred thousand horses each generating 15 lbs of manure every day...)
in PCGS PR -67 toned. But that little beauty went for 8200 plus the 1230 juice
for a grand total of 9430. A tad bit more than I wanted to spend for a quarter.
From the prices, it seemed that there were a lot of deep pockets both on the floor
and on the computors. What we really needed tonight was a money printing machine.
I would expect these strong prices to finally be showing up in the gray sheet.
Camelot
I was amazed by what some of the early material went for.
<< <i>You practically stole that coin, Lablover. I guess you are too modest to tell the folks here what a great price you paid for it. >>
gemtone65,
That's me, modest. I was a bit surprised at the price ($160) as I thought it would go higher. Perhaps everyone bidding knows something I don't. Hope I did'nt crash and burn! What the heck, it's only money, right? Either way it'll look nice in my wife's birth year set. She's worth it.
"Seu cabra da peste,
"Sou Mangueira......."