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Kookaburracollector

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  1. 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. 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….
  3. "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!
  4. Nice to see lots of TSF forum members getting an allocation of the rare stuff.
  5. I don’t want any emails from the RM this month.. @Paul, at least give me some time to flip the first one!😱
  6. 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!
  7. 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!
  8. And for those GC’s that don’t quite get the top grade…a PR69 is coming up for sale at Heritage next week…!
  9. Anyone who recently flipped their GC coin(s), might want to look away. Truly awesome result for those that were lucky enough to get one and hold. Lord knows what these are going to go for when the second coin is released!
  10. ..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!.
  11. 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…
  12. Grim reading indeed…there are usually plenty of security guards there, but who wants to tackle a thug with a machete!
  13. 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.
  14. Probably the worst condition coins I have ever seen offered for sale, per the advice above….not worth scrap value IMHO.
  15. Welcome…I lived in the potteries for three great years!
  16. I won’t be sitting on this Santa’ s knee for a surprise present!
  17. I hope so, I had to promise the postie a£10 Christmas tip if he got it here first thing! 🎄🌲🎅🍻🍺
  18. 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😀😀!
  19. @beacon Hi, as to the liquidity of these coins in the US, I can’t really say, and I’m not about to go guessing. In the Uk, I would say I am in a small minority of people who appreciate South American (especially Peruvian) gold coins. As such, they would be tricky to resell at much of a premium above spot. My avenue of escape would be an international auction house, where the high grade coins do fetch good, and improving prices..even allowing for auction fees. The above has been good news for me, as I have managed to hoover-up a large collection of Peruvian gold over the last two years, with very little bidding opposition..although that is slowly changing. That said, the Una Libra collection I have collected is for long-term, and I would part with my far less interesting coins before those, and boy do I have a lot of them😂!
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