Kookaburracollector

15 minutes ago, James32 said:

Is anyone else thinking 🤔  that Barry is infact anne Jessopp!

trying to take everyone's attention away from the fact there was no release yesterday 😁

Or WONGA!😱

3 minutes ago, LawrenceChard said:

Nothing I have not communicated to them directly, since 2000 at least.

I do rather object to your wanton use of the word "mocking", as I was simply stating facts.

If you care to read some of the information pages I have written, especially on our heritage websites. I am happy to provide links in case you can't find them.

If the RM consider anything I have published about them to be defamatory, they are welcome to try and sue me.

If you think anything I have said about them, or anyone else for that matter, is defamatory, you are welcome to explain how and why you have reached that opinion, but please make your case clearly and accurately.

 

Touché 

Some are out for delivery in the morning, rush jobs from the RM, so I  don’t know why I’m happy…got that nervous few minutes to go through, as you peep through the packaging ..praying not to see milk spots, dents, scratches and the like…oh what joy!

2 minutes ago, Roy said:

It's up there with Wonger and the 'Sold all my gold, got stung!' thread!

To use a Berraism,

'It's like deja-vu all over again...'

OMG Wonga!…what joyous memories that name invokes!

So, whose going to be first to post a picture of a GC portrait in the morning! I don’t fancy bribing my posty twice….

1 hour ago, Paul said:

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt?" Abraham Lincoln

Tom Sawyer -  it’s easier for me to fool you, than convince you that you have been fooled

Boy the red wine and gin is kicking in this evening….nice to see so many folk having some fun!

Nice to see lots of TSF forum members getting an allocation of the rare stuff.

2 minutes ago, Paul said:

Anyone awaiting the 2oz gold plain edge had email from RM ac manager today, it still due in march. It will enter your 'open orders' once they have the minting slot allocated for this custom run, nearer the time and wil be in touch directly to arrange payment @goldhunter @Frenchie @GoldDiggerDave @Kookaburracollector

I don’t want any emails from the RM this month.. @Paul, at least give me some time to flip the first one!😱

One swallow doesn’t make a summer, but a bit of information on the price difference between the elusive 70 grade, and a 69! HUGE!

I guess after auction and grading fees, the seller would have received about £465 net! ball park!

2 hours ago, Silverman2U said:

Hey, interested in people thoughts. I am picking up Gothic Crowns these days for ever decreasing prices. At the moment I am getting them around £400 a 2oz coin off eBay (yes even cheap than off TSF which is rare). 

I am rather bullish for the future

Thoughts? 

You mopping up these from the week-handed flippers, IMHO is a very wise move indeed….a fool and ther money are easily parted! Do people not look at the bigger market? When I watched a 70 grade 2oz silver sell at Heritage this week for $3100, I thought folk would realise…but they haven’t…yet! Even after taking into account auction fees, that’s over £2000 in hand for the seller…yet people are parting with them for £400! 
 

I was tempted to buy a few myself off eBay at 4am in the morning (after the Heritage sale), but the ones on offer had ‘issues’ from what I could see…milk spots already!

I hope the ones you have bought get 69 or 70 grades, if you decide to go that route…your entrepreneurship deserves to be well rewarded👍.

And as for Alderney…why have cotton when you can have silk!

And for those GC’s that don’t quite get the top grade…a PR69 is coming up for sale at Heritage next week…!

..and thanks to @AndrewSL76 (I think!), your last ‘like’ for my post has made me a ‘Veteran’ on TSF..not sure I like the sound of that!😂.

So whose guessing a price for the two GC’s being auctioned at Heritage….My feeble attempt at understanding the secondary market is:-

2oz Silver - $1000 on the hammer (so about £880 GBP

2 oz Gold (Milled edge) - $15,000 (£13,200)

(Assuming 20% BP, and 1.36 exchange rate)!

We will soon find out….anyone else going to take a punt!.

1 hour ago, AndrewSL76 said:

Thanks for sharing @Kookaburracollector. Is the 2oz Gold also graded? I will take a look, just curious as I may not be able to look properly until later on!!

A.

Thanks to @jultorsk for saving me a job👍…yes it is.

Having read the article, it suggests the robbery could have taken place outside the coin fair. At 2-45pm a lot of dealers will also be leaving then. Rather than being a well planned and targeted attack, I think the person robbed (I know not who) was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Having looked at the inventory of coins stolen, I don’t think this person was targeted specifically..there were far more expensive hauls to be had.

Thoughts are with whoever it was…

One to watch..being sold at Heritage…along with a 2oz gold on the same day.

Grim reading indeed…there are usually plenty of security guards there, but who wants to tackle a thug with a machete!

Hi @Dougall1 I sent a few Peruvian Una Libras over to NGC for grading last year, and they had to create new entries for them (year dates not previously recorded) All went ahead no problem, so hopefully the same for you. You could always email them to let them know what’s coming..they respond very quickly.

Probably the worst condition coins I have ever seen offered for sale, per the advice above….not worth scrap value IMHO.

Welcome…I lived in the potteries for three great years! 

I won’t be sitting on this Santa’ s knee for a surprise present!

20 minutes ago, NewCoins said:

@GoldDiggerDave owes you a beer I think. At least that's what I think he said!

I hope so, I had to promise the postie a£10 Christmas tip if he got it here first thing!

🎄🌲🎅🍻🍺

11 minutes ago, whuamai said:

@KookaburracollectorAre you stil missing the 1900 Rooster mate ?

Thanks for asking..but I managed to pick up that little rooster a good while ago. I’m now on the lookout for rare Peruvian Una Libras, Guatemalan 10/20 Quetzales and nice Albanian 1926/27 Skanderbegus if you have any😀😀!