SSP: FS Lundy 1929 Puffin and Half Puffin

Lloyd

Bit of an SSP. For Sale The Following coins. £25 each or £45 the pair. Includes airmail / shipping to anywhere but if insurance required add £3.50 for non uk players.

Lundy One Puffin 1929..... UNC good Lustre - good colour


Lundy Half Puffin 1929..... BU AFLustre - Stain reverse


If unsold, they will go to Ebay Tues or Wed night

Lloyd Roberts

DBSTrader2

I just realized it.... do you think it was done on purpose that the 1 puffin has a full puffin, and the 1/2-puffin has only half a bird on it? Attractive coins! Just wish they were in my price range!

- - Dave

NJMark1

I guess I got a nice bargain on these 2 then. Still in the original holders I bought then in with the prices

Mark

farthing

Mark - You got a seriously good deal on those 2.

DBSTrader2

Mark:

Want to double your investment?

- - Dave


(I might even go TRIPLE!!)

NJMark1

Ah the good old days when you could buy things like those puffins from a dealer and he would smile like the cheshire cat! But NO! Forums like this one just keep making more darkside converts! Alas the good old days are dwindling down to a precious few. Buyem when ya seeum even if yagottem!

Mark

rhound1977

That was a good deal, I don't know current pricing but I paid around $25.00 for my two, the puffin is AU, and the half puffin is BU.... How long ago did you get them NJ Mark?

BurritoGrande

What exactly are these? Some kind of novelty coin? They're kind of neat.



OK, I checked on the internet and I found some reference to these coins What is the story? It's not really clear to me from what I've read.

CIVITAS

Nice coins and nice buy, Mark.

Don't listen to DBSTrader. I'll QUADRUPLE your investment!

DBSTrader2

DON'T listen to CIVITAS!!!! I'll pay you FIVE times their price, PLUS I'll pay in DARKSIDE money!!!!

- - Dave

By the way.... WHO was the dealer?

CIVITAS

SIX TIMES!!!! SIX TIMES!!!!! Plus a broken microwave!

How can you pass that up?

ccrdragon

Don't listen to these pikers - I'll go 10 times!!!! (I know I paid more than that for BU set of these beauties!)

ccrdragon

The story on the coins:

Martin Coles Harmon bought the island of Lundy from England. In the process he declared himself a soveriegn country and as such had the right to mint his own coin. He did so, creating the Puffin and the 1/2 Puffin, using the bird that the island was famous for on the reverse of the coin and his own image on the obverse of the coin. This upset the people in power in England who did not think that Lundy was a soveriegn nation so they sued Mr Harmon for violations of the English Coin Act (i.e. minting coins w/o permission of the government). Mr Harmon fought the government thru at least 1 appeal, but in the end, he lost the battle and had to pay the British government something like 5 pounds in damages for minting his own money. He also had to stop minting the coins as part of the settlement.

Since the coins were only minted for 1 year and there were only 50,000 of each denomination minted, they are pretty scarce and command a reasonable premium on thier prices when they become available (esp. for the BU and near BU examples of the coins).

As a side note, there was a special 50th anniversary issue minted that contains 2 of each of the coins - 1 set in bronze and 1 set in CuNI, but since these were actually minted just for collectors and were never intended to be 'real' puffin coins, most of the books on the subject discount them as 'not real coins'. The special sets, even tho discounted by the serious books, command about the same premium as the original coins (most of the sets that I have seen sell in the range of $60-$70). I have not been able to find a number on how many of the sets were issued, but I do know that they are pretty difficult to locate.

(How's that for my 1200th post!?!?! )

Lloyd

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Would have been great if you did a 1.5 Puffin giveaway plus a few modern sets for the runners up.

I bought another two of these on Sunday. Both BU - the 1/2 is a gem and definitely stays but the 1 has a few contact marks. I'll be looking to improve on the latter.

I'm pretty shook up that these didn't sell (yeah sure).... But they'll certainly hit the spot on the great bay of eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. Scarce bunch and not the sort of thing collectors let go of too easily.

L

ccrdragon

Would you like a pound of flesh with that as well, sir?!?!?!?

To paraphrase a bumper sticker - 'They can have my Puffins when they pry them from cold, dead fingers!'



Actually, I am in the market for a full red Puffin - I have both in RB and BR and the 1/2 in RD, but not the Puffin...

ColinCMR

I have always wanted a pair of those!

BurritoGrande

Thanks for the information. It's a very interesting story.