Token & Medals Heritage Auction
jmcu12
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Has anyone been following this auction? It is going on today and tomorrow-the live part that is.
It looks a lot of these are commanding decent money.
**Edited to say that the title of this auction is "2007 September Long Beach, CA Tokens & Medals Signature Auction #427"**
It looks a lot of these are commanding decent money.
**Edited to say that the title of this auction is "2007 September Long Beach, CA Tokens & Medals Signature Auction #427"**
Awarded latest "YOU SUCK!": June 11, 2014
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did all your heavy lifting.
Camelot
Boy did I screw up!
for those following things live at the Heritage site, did you notice the typing-entry-screw-up on the HK-1001 Gold erie Canal Completion??? as the bidding moved in $2,500 increments at $45,000 and then $50,000 it would look like this-----Floor Bidder $50,000-----when suddenly the bid was $525,000!!!!! i almost crapped my pants, then the next line appeared and it was at $55,000.
Thread title subject: Counterfeit Confederate Currency
My personal favorite so-called dollars are HK-19 and HK-296.
I was able to pick up this HK-296 (Wells Fargo) Linkage
The other two medals went higher but were no-problem pieces.
And Keets I did not see the Erie Canal screw-up but I did see others. Must have had someone new at the keyboard.
https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/quarters/washington-quarters-major-sets/washington-quarters-date-set-circulation-strikes-1932-present/publishedset/209923
https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/quarters/washington-quarters-major-sets/washington-quarters-date-set-circulation-strikes-1932-present/album/209923
<< <i>Im bidding on the 2nd half of that Auction today, does anyone have the catalog from this auction they would be willing to part with? >>
I do, but only if you want to part with the 81CC and 85CC!!!
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<< <i>Im bidding on the 2nd half of that Auction today, does anyone have the catalog from this auction they would be willing to part with? >>
I do, but only if you want to part with the 81CC and 85CC!!! >>
Take my 1st born or my soul but please not them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/quarters/washington-quarters-major-sets/washington-quarters-date-set-circulation-strikes-1932-present/publishedset/209923
https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/quarters/washington-quarters-major-sets/washington-quarters-date-set-circulation-strikes-1932-present/album/209923
<< <i>What does everyone think of Heritage getting into the token and medal business? >>
Conflicted.
I certainly like there being more opportunities to buy medals, and have in the past won things from Heritage's exonumia auctions, and will also likely do so in the future. They also have great customer service and took the time to answer the strange questions from who was a first-time bidder last year in their sales.
OTOH, Heritage is as big as a big dinosaur, and the increased exposure sometimes seem to yield to higher prices buy "coin" people who are bidding on exonumia as if they are coins. In addition, Heritage is much more slab-happy than I am, and seems to slab most of the exonumia they have up at auction. But I don't think that numerical grades for exonumia make much sense (and thus slabbed exonumia makes little sense IMO), and such an emphasis on grading is really not IMO what the exonumia market should entail. I also don't think that Heritage is yet where they would like to be with exonumia cataloging, as can be seen from this lot from last September's sale, and this lot from the present sale. At least this is something I'm sure Heritage will take care of.
Ed. S.
(EJS)
For the first, is your complaint about the "couldn't be aluminum" comment? I know that other medals of this time period were struck in multiple compositions, and that there are examples of medals that ended up being struck in compositions that put lie to their legends. I don't have a problem believing that this one was struck in silver even though it says aluminum. Or am I missing your point entirely?
For the second, I tried to do some research because I felt it had rip potential, but I didn't make much headway. Do you know what it is? I assume something to do with the Louisiana Purchase? My heraldry isn't good enough to decipher the two shields, but I sort of guesed that the cross might be Switzerland, which makes it unrelated to the Louisiana Purchase?
thx!
jonathan
<< <i>Aegis3, could you give more information about the two lots that you link to?
For the first, is your complaint about the "couldn't be aluminum" comment? I know that other medals of this time period were struck in multiple compositions, and that there are examples of medals that ended up being struck in compositions that put lie to their legends. I don't have a problem believing that this one was struck in silver even though it says aluminum. Or am I missing your point entirely? >>
I agree with everything here. My point is, if the coin was unslabbed when it was cataloged, the metallic attribution would have been much more easy for the cataloger, especially WRT silver vs. aluminum (they certainly wouldn't have to rely merely on the toning!). I realize I am assuming it is Heritage which had it slabbed rather than the consignor or previous owner (and this of course is something I don't actually _know_). (NGC does give an attribution number which correlates to silver.)
<< <i>For the second, I tried to do some research because I felt it had rip potential, but I didn't make much headway. Do you know what it is? I assume something to do with the Louisiana Purchase? My heraldry isn't good enough to decipher the two shields, but I sort of guesed that the cross might be Switzerland, which makes it unrelated to the Louisiana Purchase? >>
As for this lot, I also don't know what it is. I'm just expecting more from professional numismatics. (Though I realize that I don't know how much effort they put into this. It could have been a stumper to almost anyone for all I know.)
Ed. S.
(EJS)