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Selling almost anything in my sets, and a whole lot more Royal Aust Mint and Perth mint issues

I have tons of boxed proofs, sets, PNC's, note folders and other stuff that was sold in the last 10 years or so Quick post, hope everyone here is doing well I've stopped collecting anything new for a while, and I'm now beginning to sell a lot of stuff. Feel free to check my sets, or contact me if you think I might have something you want. Prices range from special carded 50c issues starting at $6 AUD, right up to my 1937 Proof Sovereign set currently on eBay for $20,000. I would accept l
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My first journal in ages. MELBOURNE CUP COINS ?

Should I slab ! I feel I must.. I'm thinking I'll send my beautiful 150th Running of the Melbourne Cup gold plated 50c sets in for grading. 12 coins total yes 6 full sets. These are hot, 5000 mintage and I expect them to go up plenty more yet. Why not, I mean how gorgeous are they !! see below. They are PROOFS with an obverse the same as the proof set, Queen Elizabeth II So here's the plan.. send all 12 coins and ask for PF70 matched sets only. So if 5 of one coin grade 70 but only 4 of th
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Pretty good submission results..

I'm happy Coins for NGC invoice number 2541455 LineItem Year Mint Mark Variety/Pedigree Denom. Grade Comments 001 2009 W BUFFALO .9999 FINE G$50 PF 70 ULTRA CAMEO 002 2010 W DISABLED VETERANS S$1 MS 69 003 2010 W DISABLED VETERANS S$1 PF 70 ULTRA CAMEO 004 2010 P BOY SCOUTS S$1 PF 69 ULTRA CAMEO 005 2010 P BOY SCOUTS S$1 PF 70 ULTRA CAMEO 006 2010 W DISABLED VETERANS S$1 PF 70 ULTRA CAMEO To see old comments for this Journal entry, click here. New comments
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My next submission

This was posted to NGC 1 AUSTRALIA 1860 1 SOV MS 1 AUSTRALIA 1897 S 1/2 SOV MS 12924670 2 AUSTRALIA 1911 P 1/2 SOV MS 1 BENIN 2010 100FR PF CANNABIS SATIVA Two 1911P half sovs ! one is probably XF40. The other should be AU something and will be going in my set. The other will have to be sold via the boards and or eBay The 1897 S should cross to AU50. Hopefully even higher but no extra points with the system. So AU50 is good The Benin coin is cool and I got imaging on all of th
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Submissions journal

Recent submissions by me 6 coin submission hit Quality Control overnight, excellent ! These are for my sets of course Coins for NGC invoice number 2541455 LineItem Year Mint Mark Variety/Pedigree Denom. Grade Comments 001 2009 W BUFFALO .9999 FINE G$50 n/a n/a 002 2010 W DISABLED VETERANS S$1 n/a n/a 003 2010 W DISABLED VETERANS S$1 n/a n/a 004 2010 P BOY SCOUTS S$1 n/a n/a 005 2010 P BOY SCOUTS S$1 n/a n/a 006 2010 W DISABLED VETERANS S$1 n/a n/a A tip for
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MS70 UHR finally.. but no PL !

Those PL coins must be VERY dark and reflective One of mine looked the goods Happy to be adding the MS70 to my registry soon. I guess the others will be sold, too many coins, not enough actual cash. Lots of my stuff has already been sold and more to go
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How will my UHR submission go. I hope better than my TAB betting experience.

THREE UHR coins submitted If ever I was a praying man, its now. My luck this week has been odd to say the least. Perhaps its been up and down.. but I digress.. A mystery bet for $1 which paid me $92 instead of $2200.. due to a stupid, unfair system by our small betting agency. When I say small, this betting agency spends millions in advertisements in the main newspaper, television.. millions on upgrading facilities.. millions more advertising when the Melbourne Cup comes out. These companies
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Australia $1 mule Aus grade aUNC.. NGC MS63. SOLD $4000 AUD

The 2000 $1 with 10c obverse MULE A classic decimal rarity in high demand. Just before this coin was to appear in the single bible of Australian coins "Greg McDonald's Pocket guide to Australian coins and Banknotes" I decided to buy a couple of high grade mules I got this one.. now sold it at great profit Lesson for the day. PUBLIC awareness of an investment coin will push the price up far quicker than anything else. I bought this coin for a reason, and it paid off I have another.. w
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Terrible and terrific in the same package..

Kookaburra hunting is not turning out so great ! I still need these coins MS70 1990 1994 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 A few of these seem super hard now. Time for me to buy some serious amount of coins and inspect them. I think I'm going to put out a wanted ad for kookaburras here in Australia, saying I want only rolls no single coins If I offer to pay well, I might get some rolls of these dates I suggest others who know bullion dealers do the same. The very difficult dates li
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Putting UHR back in my set.. but what grade and type ?

I don't think it will be MS70PL I hope to have MS70 I just sent 3 coins to NGC. I believe one is a dead set MS70 The other two have dark fields, one I think should make PL for sure ! looking forward to it. The other is a maybe.. but having read the post on the forum from NGC about these coins, I guess my other one is one of the "looks like PL but isn't quite" It does have some reflectivity both sides. The other one is just better I guess its better to be 70, ALMOST PL, than getting a
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One of the (few) frustrations as a collector..

Buyers ? So I go through the agony of finally deciding to part with some precious sovereigns Keen buyer and I meet and talk a lot. There is a deal set to go down. I wait a couple of months, for him to sell some stuff and gather the funds.. including a month while the guy is away. As we nail out the final details, I tell him that PayPal transactions can be 1% for personal transfers, and would save (him) on fees Next day buyer says things are too complicated and he spent the money on somethi
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Update on whats going on.. Kookaburras and Gilt Kookaburras...

2006 Gilt Kookaburra MS70 found ! I got one MS70 I needed, and the quest continues Soon I will submit a pile of kookaburras. A fair few 1990, a few 1993, 1994, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001. If I can get a 70 for each I will be over the moon, 2010 objective complete The 2007 Gilt Kookaburra so far eludes me, and 0 exist in the NGC population. If you have this coin and know how to check for the MS70 grade, do it ! it seems to be the toughest of the lot. Am going to find a couple more and I
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Quality Control.. but thanks to Lisa at NGC !

I have my grades Separate shipping meant I should have been given my grades on 2 submissions. Lisa kindly gave them to me and will ship those coins back to me soon Super email customer service. 1864 1/2 Sov got AU55, a very nice grade 1887M 1/2 Sov got AU58 as expected, a great grade A 2008 Panda got MS67.. wow, messed up there. Giveaway time.. A 1999 Kookaburra I thought would be able to get MS69 got MS67.. giveaway time again ! 2010 Kookaburras both got 69.. one of those will be
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At least they know they screwed up..

USPS oops ! One of my packages arrived at NGC ! I looked up the other tracking number on USPS.com.. and it says Status: Missent Your item was misrouted. The error has been corrected and every effort is being made to deliver it as soon as possible. Detailed Results:   Missent, January 25, 2010, 6:47 am Arrival at Unit, January 25, 2010, 6:40 am, ALVA, FL 33920 << NOT SARASOTA OOPS at least they know and will repair the error soon. I hope. enjoy some humour at my/US
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It's been a while again

Still here.. Kookaburra collecting and more First, congrats to all registry winners. Some amazing sets as always. I am closing in on the first perfect MS70 set of Australian bullion silver $1 kookaburras. I am preparing to submit coins and may finish the set if I get lucky Also the gilded set which I have 3/5 already These sets have proved much more elusive than I thought. My primary 2010 focus is to complete these sets immediately. They must be done this year or I am selling the coins o
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Its nice getting coins back from NGC

I received my errors back Soon I will image my errors in slabs, for my $1 and $2 error sets. I love these sets I have started, and am now thinking of selling up my US sets to pursue the more costly error. I missed the coin shown below which fetched nearly $2000 AUD (inc commission) at auction last week. It is very tough to consider selling sets I have worked hard on, but I might sell my commemorative proofs set which has quite a few already, all PF70UC only.. Same goes for the First Spous
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I love the great journals here

Totally agree with the no proof eagles. Also, sov images uploaded.. Maybe I will abort collecting proof silver eagles at all. I only have 2007 2008 in PF70, and 2000-2003 PF69 Why bother. The US Mint has made its worst decision ever. Mint 50,000 of them instead and put them up one or two per person ! look at the 1995-W for crying out loud With all the economic problems, I agree melt 50,000 of the Braille's ! what a joke. I will probably stop collecting commems now as well, even though my N
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Lincoln Coin & Chronicles..

I want ! who doesn't ? Is anyone NOT buying it ? If not please buy it for me ! I fear by the time my little internet connection over here sees the website with it on, I may even miss out. I guess I will get one, but of course having 5 of them would be even better ! So please let me know if you can purchase it for me and send it on to Australia. I will cover all costs, it will be just as cheap as mint purchase because of the high USMint charge I face anyway
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The scoring system letting me down again..

A major overhaul is needed. Another example in my competing sets.. My coin 1885M 1/2 Sov XF40 Vs coin 1886S 1/2 Sov AU50 These coins are about half a grade apart in Australia. VF and gVF The 1886S is "common" in that grade or lower. 82000 minted is reasonably low, but there are lots remaining The 1885M is "rare date" in any grade, with a tiny mintage of 11,003 and an estimated population of remaining coins 1/3 as many as there are 1886S's (500 vs 1500) My coin, nearly 4000 points.
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Dateless mule ! no.. not the 20p

I am surprised noone noticed the error, least of all me The image of the 2010 Koala in my last entry was wrong ! The correct obverse uses a new font and has 2010 on it. The coin would be slightly problematic with no date ! I noticed because Downies used the wrong obverse again in another image ! this time the ANA kooka set.. a 2010/2008 mule ? now that would be funny http://www.downies.com/images/product/aq385.jpg Wrong obverse, both obverses should be the same THAT is the Koala 201
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New Kookaburra released !

And new Koala.. http://www.downies.com/images/product/aq351.jpg http://www.downies.com/images/product/aq371.jpg I have ordered a few Koalas and more Kookaburras. Perfect looking ones will be sent for grading soon ! hurray !
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Virus attack on our collectors forums ?

If you clicked the Adobe update in the forum, scan your computer A few of us noticed mysterious Adobe updates on some forum posts, from a particular user (who must be infected) Some antivirus scanners already detect the suspect file. If you were affected or you aren't 100% sure your machine is clean, I urge you to take action and run a Microsoft OneCare protection scan. http://onecare.live.com/site/en-gb/center/howsafe.htm   In other news.. I have submitted multiple coins for my signatu
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Signature set updated.. Australia $1 errors now "Australia - $1 Oddities.."

I have uploaded temporary images of almost all the coins confirmed for this set http://coins.www.collectors-society.com/registry/coins/ViewPersonalCollection.aspx?UserCollectionID=2242 Comments much appreciated ! I have a planchet flaw coming I might add now as well Pictured is the first year of issue error known as rabbit ears.. the top kangaroo has doubled or otherwise wrong ears. I receive this coin in a few days I also just bought rabbit ears 1998 and 2000 coins, and will be looking
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Close.. but no cigar ? pics arrived from latest submission

2009 P Sovereign I have to say again this is a beautiful coin !! Just missed out on the perfect grade. PF69 ULTRA CAMEO Other coins in the submission were okay, but one Kangaroo got MS68. Luckily, I picked up a couple more cheap the other day and one is that date. I would like all 3 Aboriginal ones MS70 and have 2 more to try.. My first silver Panda, a 2009, got MS70 !
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