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Baldwin | 07-27-2009 02:45 PM
1985 proof Half-Sovereign I am selling a small part of my "personal collection" (I have a much larger, more serious "investment collection") for a bit of spending money. As the title suggests, it is a proof half-sovereign without the CoA or box. It was originally purchased from APMEX, and verified by a local dealer. THe local dealer offered me $90 when gold was $930 for it, and I rejected that number. I turned to ebay. Click Here For Auction The scan is crude and didn't capture the luster of the coin. The glass surface of my scanner is 6 years old and not in the best condition, either. I also will do international shipping.

Professur | 07-27-2009 02:58 PM
Re: 1985 proof Half-Sovereign Gold, no COA and a rating of 2? You sir, are a serious optimist. I wish you well.

Baldwin | 07-27-2009 03:00 PM
Re: 1985 proof Half-Sovereign Quote:
Originally Posted by Professur (Post 1838225) Gold, no COA and a rating of 2? You sir, are a serious optimist. I wish you well.
I figured so. In retrospect, I should have started with a silver eagle or something. I've only bought 2 things in my life from ebay. (a Cross fountain pen and an 18 karat gold nib/writing tip for the pen)

csrobbins | 07-27-2009 03:01 PM
Re: 1985 proof Half-Sovereign Quote:
Originally Posted by Professur (Post 1838225) Gold, no COA and a rating of 2? You sir, are a serious optimist. I wish you well.
Well Baldwin is a GIM veteran and has quite a few posts here. I suspect thats why he/she put this information on GIM for us to take advantage. I suspect they made the right move putting the link here on GIM. Good luck Baldwin. PS: I hope you at least get the 90 your dealer offered.

Professur | 07-27-2009 03:08 PM
Re: 1985 proof Half-Sovereign That's why i was surprised at putting it on ebay. He'd probably get a better end result offering it here, and save himself all the e-bay fees.

Professur | 07-27-2009 03:09 PM
Re: 1985 proof Half-Sovereign Quote:
Originally Posted by Baldwin (Post 1838229) I figured so. In retrospect, I should have started with a silver eagle or something. I've only bought 2 things in my life from ebay. (a Cross fountain pen and an 18 karat gold nib/writing tip for the pen)
Funny enough, I went with a Waterman. Nothing beats the expression on people's faces when you pull that out to sign something.

Kregener | 07-27-2009 03:34 PM
Re: 1985 proof Half-Sovereign Go back to your dealer.

Professur | 07-27-2009 03:47 PM
Re: 1985 proof Half-Sovereign Too late. He's already got bids.

Baldwin | 07-27-2009 04:10 PM
Re: 1985 proof Half-Sovereign Quote:
Originally Posted by Kregener (Post 1838293) Go back to your dealer.
If my dealer even offered spot for it, I'd accept. He was giving me below spot with the excuse that it was 22k. Never mind that sovereigns/half-sov's are a world bullion coin with a nearly 200 year old history. I was thinking of offering it here, but I haven't posted here with regularity in nearly a year. Quote:
Funny enough, I went with a Waterman. Nothing beats the expression on people's faces when you pull that out to sign something.
I know that look. Next to a bic pen or some other thing ball point sold in a box of 100 for $4, a good Cross/Parker/Waterman etc is a work of art.

Argentum 47 | 07-27-2009 04:11 PM
Re: 1985 proof Half-Sovereign Might have a bid myself. Am a fan of the Sovereigns. They avoid Capital Gains tax in UK :D

Baldwin | 07-28-2009 05:07 PM
Re: 1985 proof Half-Sovereign Quote:
Originally Posted by Argentum 47 (Post 1838363) Might have a bid myself. Am a fan of the Sovereigns. They avoid Capital Gains tax in UK :D
I do shipping back and forth to the UK as a citizen/resident of the US and a student at St Andrews uni. It would be the most familiar foreign country for me to ship to.

Professur | 07-28-2009 05:56 PM
Re: 1985 proof Half-Sovereign Added a bit of wood to the fire for ya.

oboshoe | 07-28-2009 06:06 PM
Re: 1985 proof Half-Sovereign Quote:
Originally Posted by Baldwin (Post 1838203) I am selling a small part of my "personal collection" (I have a much larger, more serious "investment collection") for a bit of spending money. As the title suggests, it is a proof half-sovereign without the CoA or box. It was originally purchased from APMEX, and verified by a local dealer. THe local dealer offered me $90 when gold was $930 for it, and I rejected that number. I turned to ebay. Click Here For Auction The scan is crude and didn't capture the luster of the coin. The glass surface of my scanner is 6 years old and not in the best condition, either. I also will do international shipping.
If you purchased it from Apmex and are having trouble selling it, give apmex a call and see if they'll buy it back from you.

SLV>GLD | 07-28-2009 06:15 PM
Re: 1985 proof Half-Sovereign Quote:
Originally Posted by Professur (Post 1840350) Added a bit of wood to the fire for ya.
Maybe we got us a bit of competition then. I'm in the mood to put some fractional gold on the stack. :s1:

Professur | 07-28-2009 06:27 PM
Re: 1985 proof Half-Sovereign I'm not too serious about it. Fasttcar's doing a good job keeping my fiat reserves low.

Baldwin | 07-29-2009 10:26 PM
Re: 1985 proof Half-Sovereign The coin has bid up to $86 quite nicely, with a few days left to go. I might put up a few other items as well, since this seems to be going so nicely.

carpathian | 07-29-2009 10:30 PM
Re: 1985 proof Half-Sovereign i'll bid, just for fun :favorites8: :edit: woohoo, i'm the high bidder and currently in the lead.

HistoryStudent | 07-29-2009 11:21 PM
Re: 1985 proof Half-Sovereign $92 plus - better than the coin store fellow. Jolly GOOD. :banana:

SLV>GLD | 07-30-2009 09:45 AM
Re: 1985 proof Half-Sovereign You're welcome, Baldwin.

igorthesmall | 07-30-2009 09:47 AM
Re: 1985 proof Half-Sovereign Quote:
Originally Posted by Baldwin (Post 1842430) The coin has bid up to $86 quite nicely, with a few days left to go. I might put up a few other items as well, since this seems to be going so nicely.
Just wait until you get the paypal chargeback though, lol! (just kidding. I hear all the horror stories, but I have never had it happen to me, knock on wood.)

Professur | 07-30-2009 09:55 AM
Re: 1985 proof Half-Sovereign Would the people here care to place their roof bids? Spot at the moment is a hair under $110. I see no sense in bidding against you guys and pushing up the price excessively. Let the one here willing to go highest take the fight to whatever ebay bidders want to contest him.

SLV>GLD | 07-30-2009 10:42 AM
Re: 1985 proof Half-Sovereign My max bid has been exceeded.

Baldwin | 07-30-2009 03:32 PM
Re: 1985 proof Half-Sovereign Quote:
Originally Posted by igorthesmall (Post 1843101) Just wait until you get the paypal chargeback though, lol! (just kidding. I hear all the horror stories, but I have never had it happen to me, knock on wood.)
I'd rather sell it for $100 and pay $7 in fees rather than sell it to my dealer for $17 (15.8%) below spot. He was offering me 90 when spot was $107.50

livtocruz | 07-30-2009 03:48 PM
Re: 1985 proof Half-Sovereign All right now, I'M the highest bidder. Just recently picked up a couple of Sovereigns and a 1/2 sovereign wouldn't be a bad addition to my gold collection. I got the Sovereigns because it reminds me of "The Christmas Carol", "I say Dick, it's a gold Sovereign". :36_1_34: Old Fezzywig did Dick and Ebeneezer good.

Professur | 07-30-2009 04:14 PM
Re: 1985 proof Half-Sovereign Now into over-spot territory. Congrats, Baldwin. It's also over what I'm ready to pay for it. All yours, Cruz.

Baldwin | 07-30-2009 07:06 PM
Re: 1985 proof Half-Sovereign Quote:
Originally Posted by livtocruz (Post 1843779) All right now, I'M the highest bidder. Just recently picked up a couple of Sovereigns and a 1/2 sovereign wouldn't be a bad addition to my gold collection. I got the Sovereigns because it reminds me of "The Christmas Carol", "I say Dick, it's a gold Sovereign". :36_1_34: Old Fezzywig did Dick and Ebeneezer good.
I was happy to see an American bid on it. The bid before you is by a guy from Singapore. Singapore's import laws make a coin like a sovereign fuzzy territory. Bullion more than $35 US is prohibited, though coins for ornamentation, jewelry etc are not.

SLV>GLD | 07-30-2009 09:49 PM
Re: 1985 proof Half-Sovereign You can configure your auctions to be unavailable to certain countries. You can also state it in the text (which you did but without explicit exemption). Next time use GIM Buy&Sell and save yourself all the fees.

livtocruz | 08-01-2009 11:41 AM
Re: 1985 proof Half-Sovereign Quote:
Originally Posted by Baldwin (Post 1844206) I was happy to see an American bid on it. The bid before you is by a guy from Singapore. Singapore's import laws make a coin like a sovereign fuzzy territory. Bullion more than $35 US is prohibited, though coins for ornamentation, jewelry etc are not.
So, I was outbid. You should, depending on what you paid, get your money back on this coin. Hopefully it ain't the guy from Singapore that outbid me.

Baldwin | 08-03-2009 11:29 PM
Re: 1985 proof Half-Sovereign Well, the item sold and was shipped earlier today to Singapore. The winning bid was 125.50 + $13 for international shipping. The paypal hold on funds is annoying, but the winner has a history of buying gold coins from Americans successfully, so this should go without a problem.

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