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New Member
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Can you imagine how many months it would take you to organize / catalog all of that?
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Bedrock of the Community
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I see in the listing it gives the weight but I bet that he's weighing the entire collection and not just the coins, any other opinions on that?
yes I think he weighed albums and all together. I saw this same auction listing a month or so ago and it never met the reserve, probably won't this time either. |
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I took 20% off of the weight to account for a larger portion of the holders. I also calculated silver weight at 70% silver content coinage. Believe I am close to a good guess.
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Just a little out of my price range.
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If they were Canadian coins I would consider a lot this large, after seeing it in person.
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The real trouble with this auction and ones like it from anthonysrarecoins are that the sellers don't list enough overall totals/details. How many silver dollars, halves, etc? There is just no way we can accurately estimate a bid for an auction this large without more details. The devil is in the details. Sometimes these sellers provide a bunch of pictures but could be same album from different vantage point- you count it by mistake as a 2nd different album but it's same album.
Things like this make it very hard to accurately estimate the worth- and you want to have lots of room to make a profit on a collection this large- and the seller needs his/her profit as well so they could be selling it above wholesale themselves.
I predict this won't meet reserve. This seller has had other large auctions in the past, art, estate sales, etc and nothing shows up in feedback over last month or two, so probably it's a way to draw attention to their other auctions of lower value, get people to look and buy other things- a way of advertising.
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01/09/2012 5:57 pm
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The collection does have countless key dates, several 16-d dimes, 1877 Indian cents, 1909-S Indian cents, 1885 & 1886 Liberty nickels, 1921 Walking Liberty halves, etc. Very loaded collection. But just not sure if it's a 100,000++ collection, because not enough details on the silver amount. I agree the weight includes weight of albums, cardboards, mint packaging plus the coins. Some albums are fuller than others. Still, a very nice collection overall. Wondering why with a collection of this size, why not break off the circulated silver coins and run that separately as an auction- break it into 2-3 smaller lots so more people could potentially afford this. This is a lot of money for a sight unseen collection. |
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It is a great collection but they should break it up into smaller groups. Probably should have some of the better coins slabbed for authenticity also. I think they would get alot more for it that way. At $100K + for the key dates I would think HA or one of the other big auction houses would be drooling over this.
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Wow he should send that to Heritge Auctions not ebay |
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Looks like the auction sold for 148K?
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reserve not met, so it didn't sell
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United States
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Yet again.
How long until we all get to watch it not sell again?
Do they intentionally set the reserve very high, expecting it not to sell, then everyone checks out their other items out of curiosity?
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Traffic generator for them?
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United States
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I agree- think this is essentially and ad to draw people to their other auctions. That collection was easily 200K, maybe more. hard really to tell, because not enough details provided. The one picture I saw with rolls and rolls of Franklin halves were worth at least $5000 melt alone. ONe has to look carefully at pictures- some of the pictures are of teh same stuff from different angle or close ups, etc |
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IINSANE! I will not be bidding!
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