Anyone Bidding On The Newman Collection?

You need to figure out what the seller netted too.

The HA seller netted $5,206.33 ( * 1.175 = $7,188).
The ebay seller paid a final value fee of $250 or a seller net of $6,849 (http://www.fees.ebay.com/feeweb/feecalculator)

Well I have MY answer... I bought the 6th cheapest item out of a $22M auction.

A pedigree and a hole filled in one!

I, too, walked away with two ex Col Green Walkers. A VF 1918-D and a AU 1920. Fortunately, they didn't command too much of a premium over previous hammers.

I was going to try to get some FB mercs, but for some reason Heritage kept rejecting my credit card verification number. I would have won the 1916 MS64FB, but HA didn't like my information. Really, really bummed about this. Congrats to those who got something.

Double guide price seemed to be about the average going rate for coins below $1500, at least for the coins that were both CAC and ex Col Green pedigree. Varied by series of course, but double guide price was pretty common. I do think it will be interesting when these start showing up on the open market such as ebay to see what they fetch. I read an article by Laura Sperber over at Legend about how she thinks the prices on higher end coins may see a jump of 10% to 15% in the coming months from the "BEYOND MOON" money these coins would fetch. In other words, the coin market in general may rise with the tide just because of this auction. That might be a bit over zealous but who knows.

Here's the article if anyone's interested
http://www.coinweek.com/market-repo...rket-report/

From the coins I saw, particularly in Session 4, they all seemed to be graded very conservatively by NGC. When doing my research for the coins I wanted to bid on, I got the impression that the Newman coins were treated differently than regular submission NGC coins that received the same grade. The Newman coins appeared either undergraded, conservatively graded, or just very very choice for the grade. Did anyone else notice this? Maybe it was just in the type coins I was looking at, which was exclusively the seated liberty types. I'm not complaining though, for me it was all about the eye appeal more than the grade on the slab.

I won a nice 1846 Tall Date Seated Liberty half at what I thought was a fair price. Not cheap, I didn't expect that. But less than I thought it would bring. NGC AU58 for $835 including shipping. www.ha.com/1190*33706 See what you think.

Best Regards,

George
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