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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;princeofwaldo, post: 2054095, member: 24091&quot;]Well, they just broke for dinner at lot 29327, the Danish West Indies coins.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Some remarkable results on the Cuban coins a few minutes ago. Perhaps the consensus it that normalization between Washington and Havana means all the Cuban material out there is due for a meteoric rise in price.</p><p><br /></p><p>The earlier part of the auction has been sort of a mixed bag, with most of the Chinese material doing well (no surprise there) along with noticeable weakness in some of the other countries.&nbsp; The Australian section in particular was a complete bust, --all sorts of coins that didn&#039;t draw a single bid.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>But then many of the coins just weren&#039;t that compelling regardless of how lofty the grade on the holder.&nbsp; The grading services can only push the envelope so far on the &quot;technical&quot; grade thing before bidders revolt at high reserves on coins that are actually kind of ugly, even if they are extremely rare in the assigned grade.</p><p><br /></p><p>On the flip side, nearly all of the Austrian gold did marvelous.&nbsp; The 1908 Lady In The Cloud issues were all much much stronger than I would have expected given the recent strength in the dollar.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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