High grade Newfies == hen's teeth?

coinpictures

I've been watching the Bay for several weeks now to add some more Newfoundland to my collection. Is it just me, or is high grade (XF or better) Newfoundland just not out there? I'm seeing scads of F and below, with the occasional VF thrown in, but very little higher grade, let alone mint state. What little higher-grade that does appear is almost always George VI.

Mintages are low on these, but the catalogs all have them priced fairly low. Or is this another case of complete disconnect with reality where Krause and Charlton are concerned?

Most dealers I've talked with are always pooh-poohing Newfoundland, yet none of them have any high grade material...

Oh, and the vast majority of Newfie material on Ebay is horribly overgraded, IMO.

What gives?

ajaan

High grade Newfie coins are very difficult to obtain, especially Vicky coins. Newfie coins had been in the dump pricewise for a long time. They have recently begun to make a long overdue move IMO. Trends have many pluses for these.

With such low mintages, it is amazing these coins aren't more popular. I've recently sold this one:

docday2003

The major auctions usually have high grade newfies, and they tend to sell at a large discount to their "trends". The next major auction I know about is Torex, in a few weeks.










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newsman

<< <i>The majory auctions usually have high grade newfies, and they tend to sell at a large discount to their "trends". The next major auction I know about is Torex, in a few weeks. >>



I got a nice high-grade 1908 50-cent (PCGS AU58) in the Heritage sale, and was the underbidder on another half that went a lot lower than I expected because I forgot to raise my bid.

shirohniichan

The highest graded George V Newfie 50 cent piece I have is MS62, and they are definitely hard to find graded higher than that.

1960NYGiants

There's this one in the Goldberg sale in Feb.

Gene

2ndCharter

Sandy Campbell had a 1904 50 cent in MS68 for sale at his table at the FUN show. Also, Michael Walsh had quite a few of the lots in his upcoming TOREX sale on display at his table, also at the FUN show. Quite a few super high end Newfoundland coins will be in his sale.

ColinCMR

I've been collecting Newf stuff in EF and have found it difficult.

shirohniichan

<< <i>Sandy Campbell had a 1904 50 cent in MS68 for sale at his table at the FUN show. Also, Michael Walsh had quite a few of the lots in his upcoming TOREX sale on display at his table, also at the FUN show. Quite a few super high end Newfoundland coins will be in his sale. >>



Do you know how much those dealers were asking for their coins?

2ndCharter

Sandy's coin is in a PCGS holder and slabbed as a 68. He had it out on eBay a couple of months ago with an opening price of $25K with no takers.

Everything that Michael had was consigned material for next month's TOREX sale.