Sovereign Collection Ideas...

[Swampy]

On 13/02/2021 at 14:00, SilverMike said:

Also a good one to drool over: https://thetyrantcollection.com

Enjoyed this!!!! Thanks

[Swampy]

37 minutes ago, Foster88 said:

This book is rarer than rocking horse 💩

😂

It’s a brilliant guide.  My copies well used. Are they releasing an updated book, it is up to 2017, or will it just be the price guide? 

[dicker]

The Tyrant collection is interesting, as it is 'published' and publicly documented.

I suspect there are important collections 'out there' which are unknown (or suspected) n the following states:

(1) Complete with owner alive

(2) Complete with owner deceased and in a vault

(3) Incomplete and being added to

(4) Incomplete with collector lost interest

(5) Forgotten / lost track of by deceased owners family (Vaulted / Hidden away)

Serious collectors (not just of PM's) are frequently very secretive - for example, I have a friend who is an art dealer who is retained by a few clients to buy for them at auction - specifically so they are not known as the bidder or the recipient of the piece of art.

Best 

Dicker

[Swampy]

I'd never really thought about that @dicker - but you're spot on....  there really must be some lovely coins just waiting to be re-discovered.

I do wonder if a fair number of Australian Shield Sovs are firmly in this category  - tucked away in family deposit boxes / vaults in India after so many went there for trade.  Who knows... 

[Murph]

The Sydney mint sovereigns, with the banksia sprig in Victoria’s hair along with Adelaide pounds.  That will take a fair bit of money and/or time to obtain. 😀

[Swampy]

32 minutes ago, Murph said:

Adelaide pounds.   😀

Don’t know a lot about these yet - so will do some reading. 

The type two Sovs are lovely and I’m drawn to collecting them as they’ve some real history behind them.  

Unfortunately everything with Sovs takes time and money which is why I’m taking some time to reflect on next steps - there are cheaper coins we could collect!  

Thanks @Murphyou’ve given me something to research this weekend!
 

[Foster88]

On 15/02/2021 at 18:22, StackemHigh said:

How about the monster box collection? 

Buy an empty monster box with tubes and fill it!

 

[brithammered]

One other possibility is to start with one from each monarch.  Then, fill in each type from each of the monarchs.

[Swampy]

Thanks @brithammeredso many good ideas coming through!  

[StackemHigh]

On 18/02/2021 at 19:28, Foster88 said:

 

What could you ever mean! hahaha