When the things you see at the auction house just make you CRINGE!!!

From a local auction. Fortunately the coins went for way over value - partially because of the price of silver - and partially because of over-anxious buyers. But the statement in the auction lot - unforgiveable!!!

 

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Just get those home, take out your trusty wite brush and scrub scrub scrub

 

I may have posted this previously, but my experience with coins and local auctions is that they almost always sell for prices higher than what I consider their value to be.

 

Well they do need a good cleaning lol

 

It's a natural impulse for anyone who isn't knowledgeable in the field. My own mother, daughter of two collectors and mother to two collectors, very nearly polished a few Peace dollars that she got when my brother and I were born. Because that's what you do with tarnished silver, right?

I sometimes wonder whether today's obsession with original surfaces and "don't ever clean coins" will one day give way to a returned demand for cleaned coins. Wanting to clean things is human nature.

But, no, I'm not cleaning mine, either.

 

I went to a coin auction a couple of months ago, and was shocked by the vast overbidding for stuff, particularly silver rounds. It was truly insane.

 

The live auctioneers have the gift of gab, Maybe ANACS should have a summer class in skills leading to licensed auctioneer of coins. Hey Kurt, think it will fly