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47 minutes ago, matrawr said:

Quite amazing how you can get MS coins that far back....I wonder if anyone knows what the oldest MS graded coin would be?

NGC grade quite a lot of Greek and Roman coins as MS, so ~300BC at the earliest. I always find the high grade ancients are very impressive, a couple £100 would get a top grade, albeit common, silver denarius!

2 hours ago, Quicksilver said:

Received this a few weeks ago from baldwins. Thought id share 1801 Columbia Eight Escudos.

The five pound sovereign is for size comparison. 

 

 

 

 

 

Very nice 8 escudo - on my wants list!

36 minutes ago, sg86 said:

20 x Australia sovereigns

Very nice, I really need to change jobs!?

6 minutes ago, SILVERFINGER said:

Yours look pampered and spoilt, mine live on a diet of dead flys and bugs.

Not even remotely, plenty of dead flies, bugs, snails and a cat who decides the windowsill is hers!

1 hour ago, SILVERFINGER said:

They like neglect, abuse (verbal) hot/warm temperature (a cool conservatory is fine in winter), plenty of light, and a water once or twice a year, you could stick him in a pot and in 25 years he will have a load of mates.

Mine flower every year!

At the DNW auction yesterday - a tiny 1.69g bit of very low grade silver. Hopefully get a full Fine grade so it will be going to @Numistacker

3 hours ago, richatthecroft said:

...I’ve simply run out of reasonable excuses/ explainations that justifies to my wife why yet another parcel has hit the mat 

Have them delivered to work!

3 hours ago, JunkBond said:

Colombia

I would have lost all hope on seeing that!

I thought some of the routes my auction lots have taken from the US to the North East of the UK were mad - you win!

How do you claim the air miles??

21 hours ago, Numistacker said:

Delivery from@platinumskies

Very nice proof shilling!

16 minutes ago, Numistacker said:

Forgive me SilverForum for I have sinned. I could not resist buying a second proof half Sovereign at Baldwin’s Auction today

Yes I know it’s gratuitous and greedy but maybe that’s what I have become with this hobby. I need cleansing

Very nice, you just need the set of 61, 62, 63, 64, 65 and 66 to confirm the TPGs have them in the correct order!

I picked up a tiny coin at the Hamburg auction today - it was silver though!

Unfortunately a couple of other bidders realised what it was but I still got it for less than 100euros?

58 minutes ago, billyf1 said:

I bought this one the other day.

@Numistacker or anybody in the know might be able to tell me if this is worth grading? Would NCS be the type of thing you could do on this coin?

 

The history of these coins is very interesting.  I'm not sure of the base metal of these coins, I think they might be brass (gunmoney).

 

Thanks

Looks to be a nice example, gunmoney is a very interesting area to collect and worth authenticating and confirming the exact variety so probably worth grading (depending on how you plan to sell it in the future), I expect NCS wouldn't be worth it.

I sold all of my gunmoney - sixpences of course - and just have left some of the Ormonde coinage although when the 'proof' examples appear at auction it is very tempting to start again! The dates used are even more confusing than the multiple systems used on the early Napoleonic issues?

8 hours ago, ShaolinStacker said:

Welp bought another one. 2nd 1955 Rhodesia proof set. Just recieved the other today then this beauty popped up... now if I could only find the gold set

Very nice set, I am trying to upgrade my Rhodesian coins, focus is the George V coins at the moment!

52 minutes ago, Numistacker said:

@silvertanner what do you make of this. How can this be so Proof like with frosting?

Very nice, probably an early strike of the new coinage starting in 1816 and many were saved. Many top grade early sixpences, from 1816 upto about the 1850s, are proof like - it went a bit down hill after that?

22 minutes ago, Numistacker said:

It’s been a day of buying and like night and day selling follows buying. Here is what I bought...


1887 Proof Sovereign PCGS 63 ultra cameo


1858 Rare shieldback to go with my 1859


1816 6d in MS65 PCGS...

Now 19 items going for sale on eBay and that won’t even cover 2/3rds of the above ... oh dear

Nice coins, Coin Cabinet?

I missed the coins I was after as I got stuck on the A1?

13 minutes ago, CadmiumGreen said:

Having served in the second Gulf War with our coalition partners, this latest arrival has great meaning...the “Behind Enemy Lines” Gulf War Gold Full Sovereign Coin Medal Set.

The set includes a 1980 Gold Sovereign, one of 16,289 Sovereigns that were issued to British Military personnel taking part in Operation GRANBY as part of the Coalition Forces during the Gulf War 17 January to 26 February 1991.

Sovereigns were provided by the Ministry of Defence and carried by any servicemen who, it was thought, might find themselves isolated and in need of bargaining power if confronted by unfriendly forces.

Several Sovereigns were used during the War, mainly by Royal Air Force crews shot down over enemy territory and SAS, but all the uncaptured coins were returned to the Ministry of Defence at the conclusion of the conflict, having served their purpose.

The Ministry of Defence confirms that this sovereign is one of the coins returned during the Gulf War by military personnel on completion of their missions into enemy territory.

I wasn't aware of this set, also has meaning for me - though 1st time around!

I still carry a few sovereigns when overseas just in with my normal coins - ruins their grade though?

57 minutes ago, ilovesilverireallydo said:

I don’t want to rain on your parade, if that’s genuine is solid money.something about the nose/lip area doesn’t look right to me. I have had one of these before.

I agree, the 4 in the date doesn't look correct either.

20 minutes ago, Numistacker said:

 

A few years ago these were very unloved but I defect sentiment gradually changing for Proof Sovereigns generally.

 

I agree, however I would be disappointed getting PF69 for everything!?

1 hour ago, Numistacker said:

Received this delightful little 1984 proof Sovereign in the USA. A few fingerprints so will be sent to NCS and then graded.



 

Received this delightful little 1984 proof Sovereign in the USA. A few fingerprints so will be sent to NCS and then graded.



 

I have a couple of these and a bunch of other pre-2000 proof full and half sovereigns. Still trying to decide whether they are worth grading????

Very nice proof Numi! 

PF63 seems a little conservative - have it regraded??

37 minutes ago, Lea79 said:

I don’t suppose any1 has a list of the 20 francs for the Latin monetary union? I’ve googled it but can’t find a comprehensive list anywhere.  Chards is usually an excellent source of reference but I can’t even find one on there. 

@SilverTanner wow £2500!! If you don’t mind me asking, which coin was that? I’ve heard some of the nepolian Bonaparte 5 franc specifically can be really expensive.  

Countries issuing coins equivalent to the French 20 gold francs are Albania, Belgium, Bulgaria, Danish West Indies, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Leichenstein, Romania and Switzerland - it is only Belgium and Switzerland that call them francs though!

One of my expensive coins is a Napoleon AN13 gold 20 francs from the Perpignan mint (Q) with a mintage of only 522 - the very few known in EF (couple? slabbed AU grade) are silly money - sold a bunch of sovereigns to pay for it but I hope it will do better in the long run

It seems to have lost my reply so I will have another go, I blame the WiFi

This is a nice series to collect as most of the dates for Angels, Roosters and Napoleon III can be had for near spot. The earlier coins will have much higher premiums and the rare dates can be expensive - I have an early one that I paid about £2500 for and then it was only in VF condition but then the mintage was only about 500. For Angels and Roosters in MS65 and MS66 you will have to pay a serious premium but they are very impressive coins in these grades.

Expanding to the monetary union, which has already been mentioned, adds many further designs and countries and increases the numbers of types dramatically, some of which are cheap (later Belgian and Italian issues) and some of prohibitively expensive. This set has always been a goal but it would need a lottery win!

2 hours ago, sg86 said:

Die number run started 

 

Brave man! I managed to last several years without adding extra die numbers - this control has now failed and I am trying to get as many high grade slabbed versions as possible, I am addicted. I have more than 600 sixpence die numbers left to upgrade, there are many more sovereign die numbers than sixpences!

As a first target you just have to beat the Bentley collection and go down in history

1 hour ago, augur said:

1898 South Africa 1 Pond (almost last coinage before entry in WW I in 1914 but the coins from 1899 will be out of reach of most on this forum) 

https://coinweek.com/world-coins/the-1898-single-9-pond-south-africas-rarest-gold-coin/

If it wasn't for the dies from Berlin, it would be the same as any South African Sovereign

 

Great coin, I have just sold one of these. Unfortunately a high grade slabbed set of all the ZAR coins is way out of reach? They are very impressive at MS64 and above.

4 hours ago, Cornishfarmer said:

I don’t watch many you tube vids or read zerohenge but when HGM start dropping % above spot it normally means that gold is going to drop. So I’m holding off

note: I normally buy high sell low so don’t take only notice of what I say

Could be they just have lots of stock at the moment and need to move it on 

50 minutes ago, Fivepoundfred said:

Look's like you might need to sell hour house to get that lot, but at least your on the way with the 2005 !! Nice coin.

I was just thinking you could buy a house (or two) around here for that Would be a seriously impressive collection - why stop at 1839? I hear the 1826 and 5 Guinea pieces are quite nice