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Valued Member
United States
419 Posts |
Not that I'll be bidding - har!
My guess $2,000,000 US.
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Valued Member
Canada
93 Posts |
It will. My guess is 860k and a bottle of VIM.
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Moderator
 Canada
10458 Posts |
I would like to see it come back to Canada...
"Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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Valued Member
Canada
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Even though it was cleaned it is still extremely rare , my estimate 1.6 million. I have noticed that the very rare are getting good bids.The recent auction had a 1909 c sovereign go for $6600. when it was estimated at $3000. on the high side .I have been outbid steady on this coin over the last few years. As well some of the rarer nfld gold toonies went for over estimate as well.
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Valued Member
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
999 Posts |
It's $360K with buyers premium. Still 26 days so a lot of time for it to go higher. I wonder if the Bank of Canada will bid for it?
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Valued Member
United States
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No. They have two: one in silver and one in lead. Besides, the price will be too high to justify its purchase even it they lacked an example. The National Collection can't just go into the market place and buy anything it wants.
By the way the most interesting one to me is the lead trial. It's the only 1911 dollar struck in Canada.
Edited by JHax
07/20/2019 12:31 am
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Canada
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The silver coin that the Bank of Canada does have, is on loan from The Royal Mint. "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
999 Posts |
The coin is currently at US$432K including buyers premium. Still 3 days left to get your bids in.
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Valued Member
United States
419 Posts |
Now $492,000 with buyers premium.
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Valued Member
Canada
201 Posts |
Just curious how we know this is cleaned! The photos on mobile arent clear and it doesn't appear that the slab specifies this.
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Pillar of the Community
 Canada
5589 Posts |
They say that they were cleaned with "Vim" .. used to clean stove tops, etc.
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Valued Member
Canada
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Does anyone have a toned coin and a bottle of Vim? It would be an interesting experiment. If you submerge the coin in Vim and rinse it off, it is considered "cleaned"? I have dipped my fair share of coins and never thought of using
Vim. I wonder what PCGS thinks of this practice for coins other than the 1911 dollar.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I think that VIM is like a thick liquid or creamy, runny substance that has almost a smooth, but possibly gritty feel. It removes stubborn spots on a stove surface by minutely scratching away the spots, rather than dissolving them. I don't think that they were submerged in VIM ... he used it to rub over the surfaces of the coins.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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$552,000 is the final price.
a $140k drop, thats one expensive bottle of VIM and 16 years in the vault.
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08/15/2019 6:41 pm
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Canada
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$552,000 is the final price. Did it actually sell. I see that as the Sold price but when I click on the detail page, it shows Not Sold. Did $460K (price before premium) fail to trip the reserve? |
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Posted 07/06/2019 11:10 pm
