Bassano commem Heritage auction

Justacommeman

I was blown away by the bidding on this auction. Far exceeding my expectatations for this collection. Wow .........MJ

bidask

I bid strong on 4 coins and lost them all.

Justacommeman

Ditto for three of mine.....oh well, live to fight another day. MJ

LeeG

The Classic Commemorative Series is dead ya know.

Had some of these on my watch list. No cash to buy right now. I've always found that nice examples of these do Very Well!

Nic

I was on the phone at 1:15 this morning, bidding on a commem I felt near certain I would win. Wrong!
Kudos to Heritage for their service and another great sale,

K

kaz

Just scrolled through the commem. listings for the auction, it's a nice way to compare some of the 'ok' coins with the ones that are really outstanding, in terms of appearance. A good way to learn.

Justacommeman

I was blown away with some of the prices realized in this collection. I was an underbidder on a few of these and I ended up not being on the same planet. The following surprised me the most for what they were in this envirnoment-

Lafayette 67----77k
Alabama 2x2 67----23k
Arkansas 38-P 67-----15k
Bay Bridge 68-----18k
California 68------17k
Hudson 67------17k
Missouri 2x4 66----20k
Monroe 67-------30k
Oregon 36-P 68------27k
Oregon 38-d 68----12k
Oregon 39-p 68---18k
Sesqui- 66---------43k
Texas 36-p 68---------11k
Wisconsin 68------------8k

I guess never underestimate Hertitage's marketing and putting all the big players in one room together. It doesn't hurt that a couple key players are back in the game putting sets together. High end commems are alive and well. What until some of the real monstors come out.........MJ

JBN

Wish I could have gone for that Bay Bridge piece.

I did score the toned Pan Pac from the collection.

Several of the Oregons were simply beautiful - and had serious bidding.

Would like to know how many in this collection were scored by 'Agent 99'.

yellowkid

What was that Bay Bridge? 18k? I don't know that those quantum price leaps in the top grades are worth it, the spread from 66-67 or 67-68 is often over 10k. My eye isn't good enough to tell the difference in most cases. I didn't even bother last night, and this mornings prices sure justify my decision not to participate. Congratulations to the Pan Pac buyer, very nice!

shorecoll

I'm with you guys, I liked the Hudson, but didn't like it that much.

golfer72

Thats crazy money to spend for something that I really cant see any difference from lower grades. I looked thru some of them and they are not worth that kind of money. At least to me.

Justacommeman

Agent 99 scored a lot of coins ...........Mj

FredF

I've done ok in this auction. Although for a few hours, it looked like I had done a little "too" ok.

Yesterday I picked up a seated half dime and seated quarter... had to go a little strong for the half dime but got the seated quarter for an attractive price I thought.

Then this afternoon I logged in to check my bid for a liberty $5 coming up later today, and saw that my successful bid amount for the auction had been multiplied by a very large number. Appears that I won a 1796 XF S$1 for the meager price of $7000 (plus buyers premium). I flipped. My wife first got upset, then started planning her $8k shopping spree to make up for it. I'm trying to figure out how I could have won that. Did one of the kids bid for me? No, because to bid you have to type in your password. But what if it was heritage live and I had the stream up? I couldn't figure out how it could have happened. Shot off two panicked e-mails to Heritage. Got really worried because yesteday my chinese fortune cookie said "your luck will change today" and I've been having a really good run in life lately and am quite happy thank you very much mr. fortune writer.

Getting ready to take the kids to dinner and logged back in to look at my new silver dollar (I had told my wife I would pay the 5% return fee and just get on with life, if it turned out the kids did bid for it). Presto, it's gone from my account. Thank you.

Although, I've always wanted to own an 18th century silver dollar, and this one was nice....

Torrero

I thought prices were really strong on the Bassano coins as well. Todd Imhof (EVP of Heritage) was "Agent 99" but I highly doubt he was bidding for Heritage. He handles bids for most of Heritage's big buyers in Plat Night auctions when they want to stay anonymous.

Jay

Broadstruck

I'm not sure if it was just Heritages imaging but the collection as a whole didn't really do all that much for me.

There where a few colored lookers and a lot of technical high grade slab inserts.

Although there was some intense bidding, better images would have made a difference IMHO.