Evening Fleabay gambles. Whaddayathink?

coinpictures · November 10, 2005 1:52PM

Doing my nightly perusal of the BINs. Did a few impulse buys:

Brazil 500 Reis, 1889. Cost: $3.99 shipped.
Nassau 6 Kreuzer, 1833. Cost: $15.50 shipped.
Frankfurt 1 Kreuzer, 1773. Cost: $13.50 shipped. Mini-mini-cityview.
Isle of Man, half penny 1831. Cost: $66.00 shipped. This one and the next one are a little iffy. The auction pics were VERY dark. The pics below are after I lightened them considerably. I'm a bit concerned about the obverse fields on this one. The two coins come with a 5-day return privilege though...
Ireland farthing, 1806. Cost: $39.00 shipped. This one looks like it may have some potential.

ROBERTB · November 10, 2005 2:10PM

Very nice Irish piece. Unfortunately, I can't grade this issue, or copper in general, worth a damn. Looks sweet thought, seems to be quite a bit of detail on the reverse.

tonyhar · November 10, 2005 7:10PM

The Isle of Man token is difficult to get in a decent condition.
The one shown is better than most, at $66 shipped it is a fair price if the condition is as shown.

ccrdragon · November 10, 2005 10:14PM

I agree with Tony on the IOM token - I have 2-3 of those and they are very difficult to find w/o problems. The picture looks like you got a reasonably good one.

coinpictures · November 10, 2005 11:37PM

<< <i>I agree with Tony on the IOM token - I have 2-3 of those and they are very difficult to find w/o problems. The picture looks like you got a reasonably good one. >>

That's one of the reasons I jumped on this one. Previously, the ones I'd seen were VG-ish, or the rims were banged to heck and back. This one at least appears to have VF-XF details and reasonably good rims.

My favorite of the bunch is probably the little cityview kreuzer, with the Irish farthing a close second...

Evening Fleabay gambles. Whaddayathink?

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