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Any Bently sale coins in your collection?
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The Donald Bently collection was sold in a series of auctions this year and last and comprised an impressive breadth and depth of rare dated gold. The quality of many of the coins were below average though it included many very rare issues which reached record prices. The sales in my view were littered with land mines and rips as certain issues sold at completely astronomical levels and others well below the previous APR's for no apparent reason.
While I was very critical of the quality of coins in this collection, I added a total of four Bently coins to my collection. All of which were either crossed from NGC and CAC'd or sent to CAC.
Here are the coins which I acquired from the Bently sales. Anyone else have any Bently coins which they acquired?
1839 $2.5 P55 CAC
1842 $5 Large Letters P50 CAC
1862 $5 P40 CAC
1862-S P45 CAC
While I was very critical of the quality of coins in this collection, I added a total of four Bently coins to my collection. All of which were either crossed from NGC and CAC'd or sent to CAC.
Here are the coins which I acquired from the Bently sales. Anyone else have any Bently coins which they acquired?
1839 $2.5 P55 CAC
1842 $5 Large Letters P50 CAC
1862 $5 P40 CAC
1862-S P45 CAC
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Just kidding, the 61-D is awesome.
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<< <i>With the large percentage of Bently problem coins, would it be better for resale for purchasers of the "good stuff" in the sale to reholder and just drop the Bently "Pedigree"? >>
No Bently pedigree on the coins in the sale. I don't think that the pedigree will carry any value in the future and feels to me to be similar to the Richmond sale from DLRC in the mid 2000's, though significantly more expansive in breadth.
For me if the idea is to just rehold any coin to drop the cert number tied to the sale, I think getting a CAC sticker for me nullifies any concern on the association with the problem coins in the sale. That has been my approach only because I tend to send all coins of value to CAC.
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<< <i>With the large percentage of Bently problem coins, would it be better for resale for purchasers of the "good stuff" in the sale to reholder and just drop the Bently "Pedigree"? >>
No Bently pedigree on the coins in the sale. I don't think that the pedigree will carry any value in the future and feels to me to be similar to the Richmond sale from DLRC in the mid 2000's, though significantly more expansive in breadth.
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Although the Richmond had quite a few monsters in it as well. I like your coins very much but I love that 61-d. The only thing keeping that from being a 6figure coin is the size and lack of publicity outside the hobby IMO.
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<< <i>With the large percentage of Bently problem coins, would it be better for resale for purchasers of the "good stuff" in the sale to reholder and just drop the Bently "Pedigree"? >>
No Bently pedigree on the coins in the sale. I don't think that the pedigree will carry any value in the future and feels to me to be similar to the Richmond sale from DLRC in the mid 2000's, though significantly more expansive in breadth.
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Although the Richmond had quite a few monsters in it as well. I like your coins very much but I love that 61-d. The only thing keeping that from being a 6figure coin is the size and lack of publicity outside the hobby IMO. >>
I think Bently, like Richmond, was a serial acquirer. If he had a hole he filled it. Bently unlike Richmond bought multiple issues of dates he liked, much like Virgil Brand in that sense. He had like four 64-S $10's which is ridiculous. Same is true on several of the tough CC $20's which Bently had multiple examples of.
I would also tend to think that Bently's estate did VERY well on his collection, selling at the right time. Richmond to my knowledge was put together over a shorter period of time where as Bently was put together over several market cycles longer.
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the 61-D...WOW! any G$1 that looks that good is great, but combine it with that date/mm...winner!