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Any luck on Sedwick's auction today?
Abuelo
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Anyone got any cool coin to show?
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Yeah 🙂
I give away money. I collect money.
I don’t love money . I do love the Lord God.
Which one?
https://auction.sedwickcoins.com/Philippines-under-Spain-2-pesos-Isabel-II-1861-0-NGC-AU-58_i31506921
I give away money. I collect money.
I don’t love money . I do love the Lord God.
https://auction.sedwickcoins.com/Guatemala-Central-American-Republic-1-real-1824M-PCGS-MS65-finest-known-in-PCGS-census-ex-Hub_i31507803
I give away money. I collect money.
I don’t love money . I do love the Lord God.
I love the Miss Piggies, especially on the 5 peseta.
I saw @bidask get a few (and miss a few, like the beauty Argentina 8R).
I won 3 (with assistance from @MrEureka), but I’m not at liberty to post anything yet.
@pruebas I saw many Mexican patterns, maybe...
Nice @bidask
By the way, be careful with the auction descriptions. Quite a few times, the cataloguer said “highest graded at NGC” or some such verbiage.
First of all, they neglected to mention any other services.
Second, NGC has had quite a bit of grade-flation over the last few years, so an older-graded 63 might be nicer than this year’s 64.
Third, they missed some coins (which may not have been in the census correctly).
And finally, occasionally they were simply wrong. See lot 1166 for an example. They said “far superior to the other examples that have been on the market in the past few years.” My example (ex-Norweb, ex-Rudman) is much nicer (though with a bit of sea salvage roughness) and came from an HA auction in 2016.
I really wanted that Argentina 8 reales !
Wonder what Mr Eureka thought of it ?
Thank you .
I give away money. I collect money.
I don’t love money . I do love the Lord God.
Wasn't there a picture online?
Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
I never saw the coins in hand. The picture and description seemed nice .
I was the under underbidder . Were you at the auction? Had you seen this coin in hand ?
I give away money. I collect money.
I don’t love money . I do love the Lord God.
I saw the coin a few weeks ago at the USMex show in AZ. Nice coin but I did not bid on it.
Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
@pruebas yes, I learned that lesson a while ago... Yet I do not think the grade-flation is exclusive of NGC.
I was overbid on the 1772 pillar dollar by, if the bidder name can be trusted, Patrick Tan.
Glad to see the 1815 Argentina 8R go for $15k. I own a 64+ Argentina 8R though an 1836 which is more toned vs the satiny white example at Sedwick.
Latin American Collection
I am not focusing on the Americas - but there were a couple very colorful Reales that I was interested in. Like this one:
https://www.sixbid.com/browse.html?auction=5336&category=167993&lot=4452531
Anyone see these in person? Anyone bring one home?
My current "Box of 20"
Looks like another very nice coin.
Missed that one too .
Too busy watching stocks and bonds .
I give away money. I collect money.
I don’t love money . I do love the Lord God.
OK, I finally received my Sedwick winnings, courtesy of @MrEureka. These are quite rare,
and generally come pretty banged up. While the coloration may not be pretty, the surfaces
are much nicer than normally seen for these. And they actually don't look bad in hand.
A little background. In 1869, Mexico was changing over from the Reales system to the
decimal system. There were copper patterns (trials in some cases) struck in all denominations
in both 1869 and 1870. The centavo patterns were dated 1868.
As always @pruebas , very nice.