The five auctions I most look forward to attending...

MrEureka · March 12, 2007 11:40AM

Not that you wish anyone dead or destitute, but name the sales you look forward to attending. No institutional collections, please.

1960NYGiants · March 12, 2007 12:43PM

How about institutional auctions? Would attending on-line count?

The CNA Auction (This one I attend live)
The 2 (or is it 4) Heritage World Coins Auctions (attend on-line)

The Willamette and Melron collections of Gem Canadian Large cent (Bosox will outbid me, though)

Aethelred · March 12, 2007 12:51PM

The BS Collection.

SYRACUSIAN · March 12, 2007 1:20PM

Depending on year and material

Gorny & Mosch,
WAG,
Rauch,
Kuenker,
Lanz,
UBS,
HWCA,
CNG,
Ponterio

bidask · March 12, 2007 1:23PM

<< Depending on year and material

Gorny & Mosch,
WAG,
Rauch,
Kuenker,
Lanz,
UBS,
HWCA,
CNG,
Ponterio >>

Man you know your foreign auctions!

MrEureka · March 12, 2007 1:28PM

I'm looking for the names of the collectors, not the names of the auction companies!

spinaker2000 · March 12, 2007 1:33PM

"The Wee Church Mouse" Collection!!

MacCrimmon · March 12, 2007 2:26PM

<< I'm looking for the names of the collectors, not the names of the auction companies! >>

The Geoffrey Cope collection.

SYRACUSIAN · March 12, 2007 4:30PM

I'm looking for the names of the collectors, not the names of the auction companies!

Past tense allowed?
Spink, 1979, #5, the D. Loulakakis collection.
UBS Fall 2002, unnamed but memorable Greek sale

If I knew any upcoming one of this caliber, I wouldn't be writing here about it.

FilamCoins · March 12, 2007 5:23PM

The Just Having Fun Philippines Collection!

Preussen · March 12, 2007 9:30PM

<< Not that you wish anyone dead or destitute, but name the sales you look forward to attending. >>

3Mark has a few Prussian pieces I'd like to have

How ya feeling?

-Preussen

3Mark · March 12, 2007 10:12PM

Steve:

Still alive

3Mark

MacCrimmon · March 12, 2007 11:05PM

<< The Just Having Fun Philippines Collection! >>

Well, all of Mr. Fun's collections would be a highlight.

ajaan · March 12, 2007 11:20PM

The aethelred collection of Beanie Babies.

3Mark · March 13, 2007 8:45AM

Andy:

Since you put down 5 on the US forum, what would be your 5 foreign coin auctions that you would like to see?

3Mark

Doogy · March 13, 2007 8:49AM

here are a couple, in no particular order:

The "here! take these MS66 GB Crowns off my hands, and pay me just a few bucks" by Heritage
and......

The "grandads' slew of Swiss shooting Thaler and all things Prussian" collection by UBS

shirohniichan · March 13, 2007 9:24AM

It would have behooved me to have paid more attention to the Jeremy Remick auction.

MrEureka · March 13, 2007 9:48AM

Since you put down 5 on the US forum, what would be your 5 foreign coin auctions that you would like to see?

It's funny, with the Lightside thread I know the players well enough that I know who wants to remain anonymous and who doesn't care. On the Darkside, I'm not as well connected and I have to be more careful. That said, my choices are:

1. Clyde Hubbard, who should have some pretty decent Mexican.
2. I.R., who has some great West Indies countermarked coinage, and more.
3. R.S., who probably has the best general collection of Central American coins, but at least the best collection of Central American Republic.
4. L.E. Bruun, who died in 1922 with the best collection of Danish coins. His will stipulated that (except for his duplicates) the coins not be sold until 100 years after his death.
5. ?????

Edited to say that I would fly anywhere in the world to look at any of these collections, I'd buy the owner dinner at the restaurant of his choice, and I'd kick in $1000 to the charity of his choice. And that's just my starting bid!

coinkat · March 13, 2007 10:23AM

This is worthy of some thought

covers · March 13, 2007 10:30AM

I'm waiting for the Gulbenkian ancients to come to auction after the family decides the collection is a waste of cabinet space in their Lisbon museum.

1960NYGiants · March 13, 2007 11:36AM

<< I'm looking for the names of the collectors, not the names of the auction companies! >>

Oh well then in that case, how about the Andy Lustig collection of CAR gold!

MrEureka · March 13, 2007 12:21PM

Oh well then in that case, how about the Andy Lustig collection of CAR gold!

Why is that funny?

1960NYGiants · March 13, 2007 1:38PM

<< Oh well then in that case, how about the Andy Lustig collection of CAR gold!

Why is that funny?

>>

Andy - my apologies, I did not mean to offend.

MrEureka · March 13, 2007 1:54PM

Andy - my apologies, I did not mean to offend.

Accepted. Now all I have to do is find the 75% of the coins I'm still missing so I can live up to my expectations.

bosox · March 13, 2007 2:32PM

I can think of three, maybe four greyside auctions at which I will attend with bells on. I would name them, but they would get mad and spite me by willing them to their heirs.

wybrit · May 22, 2025 10:50AM

@MacCrimmon said:
<< I'm looking for the names of the collectors, not the names of the auction companies! >>

The Geoffrey Cope collection.

It finally happened! The last bits of it sold off today (5/22/2025). I was able to win some pieces in each of the 3 parts.

coinkat · May 22, 2025 11:04AM

I followed most of the Cope sale today... it was competitive as I expected. There were afew coins I just never had a shot at. If I recall correctly, Cope did participate here once in a while. I did manage to win afew...

Abuelo · May 22, 2025 12:52PM

This post, like Lazarus, resurrected... nearly 2 decades later.

SimonW · May 22, 2025 1:19PM

WCC collection
Dr. Parra collection

MrEureka · May 22, 2025 1:39PM

@MrEureka said:
Since you put down 5 on the US forum, what would be your 5 foreign coin auctions that you would like to see?

It's funny, with the Lightside thread I know the players well enough that I know who wants to remain anonymous and who doesn't care. On the Darkside, I'm not as well connected and I have to be more careful. That said, my choices are:

Clyde Hubbard, who should have some pretty decent Mexican.

I.R., who has some great West Indies countermarked coinage, and more.

R.S., who probably has the best general collection of Central American coins, but at least the best collection of Central American Republic.

L.E. Bruun, who died in 1922 with the best collection of Danish coins. His will stipulated that (except for his duplicates) the coins not be sold until 100 years after his death.

?????

Edited to say that I would fly anywhere in the world to look at any of these collections, I'd buy the owner dinner at the restaurant of his choice, and I'd kick in $1000 to the charity of his choice. And that's just my starting bid!

Since my original post, small parts of Hubbard’s and Isaac Rudman’s collections have come to market, Richard Stuart has been sold, and Bruun is in progress. Pretty cool. So now I’ll add a #5, the Herbert Schneider collection of English gold coins. Unfortunately, at least for me, I don’t expect that one to come to market anytime soon.

Boosibri · May 22, 2025 2:04PM

Max Keech
Mike Dunigan
Mark Teller
Rest of Rudman

JohnnyCache · May 22, 2025 3:04PM

I had aggressively pursued (or I thought I was aggressive) a token in the Cope sale today. Despite the effort, with bids up to 6x the auction estimate - pre buyers premium of 22.5%, I was unsuccessful.

As for auctions, though likely out of my budget, I'd like to see some of the Spanish colonial pillars and portraits in the Tyrant's collection of Mexican coins at auction.

coinkat · May 22, 2025 3:34PM

Just an observation about auction estimates… do your own independent research

coinkat · May 23, 2025 4:59AM

One other comment on the Cope Sale…

There were some truly amazing coins offered. I already regret not chasing some of coins with the intensity required to win them. There were some sleepers.

7Jaguars · May 23, 2025 8:39AM

I had to laugh at their estimate on the 1845 1/2 penny. 200 dollars? How bout 5500 plus the juice?

wybrit · May 23, 2025 9:20AM

@7Jaguars said:
I had to laugh at their estimate on the 1845 1/2 penny. 200 dollars? How bout 5500 plus the juice?

You're right about the estimate -absurd! Spink quotes an EF at £2,000, with no price for BU, probably because there aren't any. That final value wasn't far off what an UNC should fetch.

JohnnyCache · May 23, 2025 11:07AM

@coinkat said:
Just an observation about auction estimates… do your own independent research

I agree and I do.

I'm not a Condor token collector, in fact I don't own any, but this is one token that really speaks to me. I've wanted to acquire an example for a number of years now.

The problem for me is that the practical side of me thinks that at a certain price point, with the token being outside my primary collecting focus, it starts to get hard to draw away resources that I could use to improve my primary collection.

I do love this token design, so maybe some day.

Sold at 1800 hammer + 22.5% premium = $2,205

TwoKopeiki · May 23, 2025 11:18AM

Feels a bit dirty talking about other collectors passing which would likely be the reason those auctions would take place, as those are people i sometimes know and oftentimes respect and wish them a long and happy life, but my list would be similar to Brian's with an addition of a few very specialized collections specifically around Portrait 8 Reales varieties.

coinkat · May 23, 2025 11:33AM

Deciding how to allocate and use resources often is problematic… I regret not bidding more on the 1695 Scottish 40 Shillings… but I have yet to buy a pre 1707 Scottish coin. So chasing this was not a must have coin for a primary set of interest. The real dilemma is thinking about how often that coin will appear with that look. And that is basically the reasoning for regretting that I was not more aggressive. If one looses after making a compelling run, you can at least look back thinking the effort was reasonable.

wybrit · May 23, 2025 12:04PM

@TwoKopeiki said:
Feels a bit dirty talking about other collectors passing which would likely be the reason those auctions would take place,...

I agree, it does. Geoffrey occasionally posted here a long while ago, and with much class and knowledge. His website was informative: he clearly wanted others to learn new insights into the coins and why they existed. He is missed. RIP, Mr. Cope.

wybrit · May 23, 2025 12:09PM

And BTW you can still see his site thanks to the wayback machine:

https://web.archive.org/web/20241224235919/https://petitioncrown.com/

SimonW · May 23, 2025 12:42PM

@TwoKopeiki said:
Feels a bit dirty talking about other collectors passing which would likely be the reason those auctions would take place, as those are people i sometimes know and oftentimes respect and wish them a long and happy life, but my list would be similar to Brian's with an addition of a few very specialized collections specifically around Portrait 8 Reales varieties.

I want them to live a very long and happy life, I just want them to sell their coins 😬

7Jaguars · May 23, 2025 12:45PM

@wybrit said:

@7Jaguars said:
I had to laugh at their estimate on the 1845 1/2 penny. 200 dollars? How bout 5500 plus the juice?

You're right about the estimate -absurd! Spink quotes an EF at £2,000, with no price for BU, probably because there aren't any. That final value wasn't far off what an UNC should fetch.

Hmmm, was that you that bought it? I was thinking of bidding but right now have some business issues...

realeswatcher · May 23, 2025 3:06PM

Richard August... outbid me on a number of eBay pieces over the years. RIP.

Abuelo · May 23, 2025 7:53PM

Thank you for not including me in any list

Abuelo · May 24, 2025 5:18AM

That said, and respectfully, @pruebas collection will be something else...

wybrit · May 24, 2025 8:29AM

Hmmm, was that you that bought it?

The rumors of my death are greatly exaggerated.

MilkmanDan · May 25, 2025 8:27AM

I don't know if any collections out there today are quite like what was seen in the past. My list is something like this:
Harald Salvesen
Hal Walls
Frank Rose (chopmarked coins)
Kann
torn on who should be in the 5th spot

SimonW · May 25, 2025 12:05PM

@realeswatcher said:
Richard August... outbid me on a number of eBay pieces over the years. RIP.

I’m really curious to see his collection. I hear it’s pretty good and right up my alley.

7Jaguars · May 25, 2025 1:05PM

You would be surprised at what is hidden away and the stealthiness of the owners.
But the OP was concerning “known” collections.

The five auctions I most look forward to attending...

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