THE NEW COIN CLUB
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| 1251 | julieo wrote:
julieo,just google this [colonial collectables] this is his site ok chefman1 - 2013-01-21 17:36:00 |
| 1252 | Welcome to the Coin Club. We are an assortment of newbies, amateurs and experts with questions and answers for newbies, amateurs and experts in coin collecting, also known as numismatics. Whether you are just getting started, have been collecting for years or have simply found some old coins about the place that you’d like to sell, this is the place to ask your questions. No one has all the answers, and you may get five differing answers to the same question, yet each may be right in a manner of speaking, especially if opinions are involved. Opinions often vary. If you receive no answer to your query within 48 hours, please ask again. chefman1 - 2013-01-21 17:37:00 |
| 1253 | chefman1 wrote:
The funniest thing is that through December, I had a number of sales of lots with no photos. echoriath - 2013-01-21 21:44:00 |
| 1254 | bearnaise wrote:
Hi bearnaise, some interesting points you make. Perhaps there is a general slowing of sales and a frustration on the part of sellers, so they start thinking, "I will have to get closer to book to make money, and I am tired of poor sales on low-reserve auctions for valuable items [hoping for a lot of bidding to near market value and not getting it]." That's my theory. Prices guides are just that: guides. They are usually created from averages of sales researched by the creator of the guide, so in a flat market...... I usually only buy a guide every five years or so, and more as a gauge of the market at the time for future reference. If you look at the US Red Book by Yeoman through the 70s, you see incredible climbs in silver and gold coin prices, but that was merely a reflection of bullion prices. By the early 80s everything had crashed back to earth. It was the same again around 2006 or so. I'm not saying that a crash is going to happen again (though it could), and there is speculation that metal prices are tipped to climb a LOT more (and they could), but ultimately guide books reflect conditions as they were at the time of printing, and are not technically forward-looking. echoriath - 2013-01-23 07:28:00 |
| 1255 | If I could mention one thing it would BUMP . But I will not . Or maybe I will. Bump. Or BUMP lester36 - 2013-01-24 22:10:00 |
| 1256 | Hey guys long time no post..... Question... I have a Milner and Thompson Token Sole Agents for John Brinsmead & Sons Pianos. It appears to be silver??? Does anyone know anything about them?? cashintheattic - 2013-01-25 19:14:00 |
| 1257 | cashintheattic wrote: lester36 - 2013-01-25 20:26:00 |
| 1258 | Has any body got information on the 1936 flatback florin. I did a google and there doesn't seem to be any information out there, weird... I am sure it exists cos I am selling some of them, but I can't find any info in the catalogues! cheers - and a belated happy new year to all the regulars! iamriff - 2013-01-26 22:44:00 |
| 1259 | This message was deleted. oldecurb - 2013-01-27 23:04:00 |
| 1260 | oldecurb wrote: lester36 - 2013-01-28 10:22:00 |
| 1261 | Thanks for the trade Peter, ( chefman1 )only found this Coin Club by accident as a bit boring on TM in these later hours.All the best,Alan gammoner - 2013-01-28 23:13:00 |
| 1262 | Hi again Peter, replied to your email but I seem to be getting everything I send to any hotmail.com address back as undeliverable.You may have another non hotmail .com acc ?Regards,Alan gammoner - 2013-01-28 23:33:00 |
| 1263 | iamriff wrote:
Hey Ian, I'm not ignoring your question. I just have no insight to offer. Hope your year is going well. echoriath - 2013-01-29 06:53:00 |
| 1264 | iamriff wrote:
Are the two you currently have listed the examples? gammoner - 2013-01-30 00:02:00 |
| 1265 | Hi Alan, i had some more examples but withdrew the auctions due to comments that they are nonexistent, funny thing is they really have the flatback look, will try to take better pics of the more obvious...cheers iamriff - 2013-02-01 04:47:00 |
| 1266 | iamriff wrote: gammoner - 2013-02-01 10:35:00 |
| 1267 | Hi there, does anyone know what min price I could expect to get for a Morgan Dollar 1895-S ? Thanks in advance orlandofan - 2013-02-03 17:58:00 |
| 1268 | orlandofan wrote: puckles - 2013-02-03 22:16:00 |
| 1269 | Those of you who remember the incredibly abusive posts made at #377 & #378 won't be surprised to learn that the trader has been suspended. One can only wonder if like their previous incarnation, jflea1080 or something, they were suspended because they had outstanding unpaid auction fees. You'll possibly even remember the meltdown they had because they didn't get enough bids on their $1 reserve auctions and started refusing to complete the sales. One of the comments on one of their auctions was recorded for posterity in this TMD thread - http://www.trademe.co.nz/Community/MessageBoard/Messages.asp They have a new incarnation of course who can't be named as it would breach rules. With their favourite quote though 'My items are listed at the lowest possible price. As a result no Fixed Price Offers will be given to watchers' - you wonder if they pass on any savings made from unpaid fees to their customers. chrisr5 - 2013-02-05 18:24:00 |
| 1270 | Well, last time I asked something on a forum I got in trouble by the trader for not asking them direct. This time (as I have limited knowledge of coins) I asked the trader direct. Well I got the most aggressive and hostile answer!! But I did find out that silver coins can be toned, just didn't like the hostile response, which I have since complained to Trade Me about! Question: And BTW still looking for my manly bits!! bizarre67 - 2013-02-07 19:38:00 |
| 1271 | Hi All I picked this up last night at my coin club, It was in our 10 cent a coin bucket. lester36 - 2013-02-07 20:48:00 |
| 1272 | bizarre67 wrote: Nice coins tho. lester36 - 2013-02-07 21:08:00 |
| 1273 | Well now that I know you can tone coins .. I'm not going to do it, but how do you do it and what with? bizarre67 - 2013-02-07 21:51:00 |
| 1274 | bizarre67 wrote: lester36 - 2013-02-07 22:01:00 |
| 1275 | lester36 wrote: bizarre67 - 2013-02-07 22:40:00 |
| 1276 | lester36 wrote:
NIce find, not sure how common they are but someone once had one up for quite a fair bit more than that! edit - typo Edited by chrisr5 at 3:40 pm, Fri 8 Feb chrisr5 - 2013-02-08 15:35:00 |
| 1277 | bizarre67 wrote:
If you can still ask them questions you could do worse than ask if they ever had their 1822 'gold sovereign' authenticated and slabbed! chrisr5 - 2013-02-08 15:37:00 |
| 1278 | chrisr5 wrote: Edited by chefman1 at 4:35 pm, Fri 8 Feb chefman1 - 2013-02-08 16:33:00 |
| 1279 | Here is another of my finds lester36 - 2013-02-08 19:19:00 |
| 1280 | This message was deleted. oldecurb - 2013-02-08 20:57:00 |
| 1281 | chefman1 wrote:
Freshly roasted too, I don't have to use a wok to roast the beans now. If you're up in Auckland you're very welcome to drop by for a cup and to see the coin collection. chrisr5 - 2013-02-09 08:14:00 |
| 1282 | That Austrian florin was popular! chrisr5 - 2013-02-09 21:20:00 |
| 1283 | chrisr5 wrote: lester36 - 2013-02-10 11:28:00 |
| 1284 | Hi Lindsay ~ from memory there were three buckets of coins for ten cents each so you got a good reward for the work of going through them. I was lucky to be the last raffle winner and receivrd a magnificent uncirculated Churchill crown that I have carefully transported back to the Hutt Valley! alpha111 - 2013-02-10 17:58:00 |
| 1285 | bizarre67 wrote:
Toning can be done manually, as it were, but it's not something I have experience with doing. Likewise, cleaning it off is not so good. Sadly, too many people think a nice shiny coin necessarily has more value than one that has its natural age showing. If you ever watch Antiques Roadshow, there's a similar phenomenon with furniture. The valuer shows clear ambivalence, trying to delicately explain that the value WOULD be $100,000..... HAD it NOT been "cleaned up" by some well-intended person. Now the value of the piece is $10,000 on a good day. echoriath - 2013-02-10 18:19:00 |
| 1286 | echoriath wrote:
I'd say it all depends on the coin. I got an NZ florin that had been glued to wood. I soaked it in acetone for a few days and got off the glue but the toning was totally funked. So I put it through some electrolysis and it came out superbly. It is now developing some excellent toning. chrisr5 - 2013-02-11 07:56:00 |
| 1287 | alpha111 wrote:
It seems there are some coins that just go OTT on bidding and Austrian florins always seem to do that when they come up. chrisr5 - 2013-02-11 07:59:00 |
| 1288 | chrisr5 wrote:
That's one of the nice things about coins that are in some way munted: One is free to experiment and tinker and see how they react without risking something with a better provenance/condition. I've had the odd coin in the fire to see if heat would reveal a date - it did not work. Acid can achieve the same thing, of course, but I had no acid to hand. Edited by echoriath at 5:25 pm, Mon 11 Feb echoriath - 2013-02-11 17:24:00 |
| 1289 | alpha111 wrote: lester36 - 2013-02-11 19:00:00 |
| 1290 | lester36 or chrisr5, do you know what this is please coin or token? Edited by chefman1 at 8:08 pm, Mon 11 Feb chefman1 - 2013-02-11 20:01:00 |
| 1291 | chefman1 wrote: lester36 - 2013-02-11 20:15:00 |
| 1292 | lester36 wrote:
thankyou lester36, i found it in my coin book as-well,cheers peter chefman1 - 2013-02-11 23:04:00 |
| 1293 | ^^^^ What he said^^^^ It's Cu/Ni as you would have guessed with a mint-age of 3.5 million the 2007 Stranded Whirled Dogalog gives it a value of (US$) F -3 , VF - 9, XF - 20, Unc - 45. I always miss these garage sales and excellent deals like CITA and Mr Lester and you now get. chrisr5 - 2013-02-11 23:08:00 |
| 1294 | The member deleted this message. oldecurb - 2013-02-13 09:25:00 |
| 1295 | Don't forget it's up hill all the way from Dunedin. wasgonna - 2013-02-13 12:46:00 |
| 1296 | This message was deleted. oldecurb - 2013-02-13 21:00:00 |
| 1297 | This message was deleted. donaldo - 2013-02-13 21:28:00 |
| 1298 | Bad Bruce for going off topic!! Hahah! No, really, crossing the channel sure ain't cheap. I've not really noticed any difference for stuff going or coming by post, though a person traveling across is pretty dear either way. When I saw the prices for crossing on the ferry I understood why people sometimes choose to swim instead. I have had the experience where things addressed to me get delivered to a flat around the corner - same number different street. The people in the flat either did not care that it it had been misdelivered or had not gotten around to dropping it back in a letterbox to be re-delivered (hopefully) correctly. While the initial blame goes to NZ Post for misdelivering, mistakes happen. A measure of blame has to go to the folks in the flat who could not be bothered to drop it back in a post box. echoriath - 2013-02-13 21:30:00 |
| 1299 | Kicking..... echoriath - 2013-02-13 21:47:00 |
| 1300 | ....the hundy! echoriath - 2013-02-13 21:47:00 |
