Has anyone gotten an email from Heritage with an offer for a coin you've won at auction?

Stork · October 9, 2011 5:30AM

I didn't even know about this new service...but I just got an email for a coin I purchased at a 2006 auction, for about 30% more than I paid. Too cool, and I'dve sold it except for the small fact I'm overseas and the coin is locked up in an SDB back in the states. Rats!

Cathy

TwoKopeiki · October 9, 2011 5:32AM

I've never received an email like that, but it makes me want to ask Heritage to send a few on the coins that were sold in the last few years.

7Jaguars · October 9, 2011 5:42AM

Yes, I have had emails, certificates, etc. from them (Heritage). Offers to buy are interesting but, as an example, one coin I bought for 880 had an offer of 1500 less 10% handling or 1350 - really not enough for a superior coin to give it up.

cacheman · October 9, 2011 9:26AM

I was offered 30K for the MS66 Gothic Crown I bought in auction through them...unfortunately I sold the piece through Goldberg several years back for one-third this offer.

coinkat · October 9, 2011 9:53AM

Cacheman

I tought those Gothics even with the right look topped out- there are other crowns that are significantly tougher that just do not seem to attract the interest or the money- I seriously doubt there are many GEM George I and George II Crowns

1960NYGiants · October 9, 2011 10:19AM

No emails - but a few phone calls.

rec78 · October 9, 2011 3:19PM

Yes I have. Twice for the same coin -An 1865 3-cent silver in AU-58. It was probably from the same person-The second offer $200 more than the first. I still have it and am not ready to sell it yet (Besides, it is buried in a safe deposit box somewhere). A Very difficult coin to find in business strike.

I have made an offer myself on a coin I need, but the owner did not respond.
Bob

Stork · October 9, 2011 5:28PM

In my case it's a coin I bought thinking I might like to go that direction...but since have not. It's the type of coin that is fun, but would be the first to go if I was needing money or was raising funds for some other coin.

I did respond in the negative, I wish I could have (or if I could have I couldn't figure out how to do it) put in a comment that they should ask me again in 2 years when I could get my mitts on the darn thing.

Cacheman--ouch! That was some good medal money! I guess it's like the stock market--trying to time everything to perfection is something that is only possible in retrospect. Just don't look at the prices once you've sold (unless of course some helpful company sends you an email....)

Cathy

cacheman · October 10, 2011 4:23AM

Coinkat, I was mistaken and thinking of another crown I owned, however. I did sell this one through Goldberg in 2005, I think, and for about 60% of this offer. Here is the listing and record of offer for the Gothic. I still can't believe it was almost 9 years ago that I bought it.

Gothic Offer

coinkat · October 10, 2011 10:21AM

Cacheman-

You are right that a 66 did fetch over $30K- And I even thought that was a good 3 years ago -if not longer- and I thought these sort of corrected somewhat. The color on the one that fetched $30k was just part of the story

MacCrimmon · October 10, 2011 1:21PM

Here's the Hesselgesser Gothic PE in PCGS PF65CAM

I bid that PF65CAM to $20k and wasn't EVEN CLOSE!!!!!

And, here's just a plain old PF67 which was $29,900, all-in.

Greig · October 13, 2011 9:12AM

I had an offer about six months ago from Heritage for a Cap & Rays 8 reales (1861 Do/CP) that I won at auction ungraded a few years ago. The offer was about 50% over my purchase price, which as I recall was in the mid-$400 range. PCGS graded it as MS 66, and with the recent huge run-up in pricing for these coins in MS, I declined.

Unfortunately, I don't have photos. I suspect it was from an old hoard. The Heritage flip included a beat-up manila envelope from Henry Christiansen, Inc.; not sure how old, but certainly 40-50 years or so.

Has anyone gotten an email from Heritage with an offer for a coin you've won at auction?

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