Unbelievable, looks like someone made a huge profit!
Hussulo
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I was looking through my latest edition of Coin News magazine and noticed some auction highlights.
London Coins auction had a picture and description of South Africa Sixpence 1928 with a price realised of £5000. Then I flipped back two pages as I thought I saw another similar coin on Heritage's South Africa Specimen Sixpence 1928 (looked to be slabbed by NGC) price realised US$155,250!!!
Looked at their websites:
London Coins (lot 126)
http://www.londoncoins.co.uk/?searchterm=1928+south+africa&searchtype=1&page=Pastresults"
and NGC:
Heritage:
http://coins.ha.com/common/view_item.php?Sale_No=3010&Lot_No=21849"
Although the Heritage picture has been taken with more lighting, I'm pretty sure its the same coin. Especially if you look at the toning and breaks in the toning.
London Coins auction had a picture and description of South Africa Sixpence 1928 with a price realised of £5000. Then I flipped back two pages as I thought I saw another similar coin on Heritage's South Africa Specimen Sixpence 1928 (looked to be slabbed by NGC) price realised US$155,250!!!
Looked at their websites:
London Coins (lot 126)
http://www.londoncoins.co.uk/?searchterm=1928+south+africa&searchtype=1&page=Pastresults"
and NGC:
Heritage:
http://coins.ha.com/common/view_item.php?Sale_No=3010&Lot_No=21849"
Although the Heritage picture has been taken with more lighting, I'm pretty sure its the same coin. Especially if you look at the toning and breaks in the toning.
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SA coins have been picking up lately, hadn't seen anything that strong but they have definitely been picking up... coins that I purchased 3-4 years ago for $10 or less have been going for 5-10 times the price in the last couple of months. on ebay, with good pics, early copper has gone thru the roof (that being the only area that I am currently interested in)!!
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