AUCTION - Fractional Gold - Historic Australian

G'day Stackers,

And now for something completely different

Disclaimer : It's really REALLY not the time to be selling silver gold but circumstances dictate otherwise help a fellow Stacker fund his rather quickly planned impending nuptials in Bali (in 3 weeks time )

On offer here are a couple of very interesting, and very rare, historic gold pieces. 2 * Hutt River Province - "One Sovereign" 8.04gm coins, 2 * Hutt River Province - $100 coins (8.44gms) and 1 * 1985 UNC $200 Carded Koala From what I can glean, the 2 * "Sovereigns" are pure gold (.999) and minted by Johnson Matthey (Mintage not stated, but believed to be ~1000!), while the 2 * $100 coins are also pure gold (.999) but from the Canadian Lombardo Mint, and each have a mintage of only 500!!! The 1985 UNC Carded Koala was the first with the new Raphael Maklouf portrait of the Queen and comes with all the packaging

Source - There is some great history and backstory to the Principality as well, quite an achievement...
Also here the official webpage of the Principality (which unfortunately is now closed, as of 31st January 2020...I blame Covid )



Thumbnail images - Click for Full-Size

Auction finish at 17:00 AWST (18:30 NT & SA/19:00 QLD/NSW/VIC) - Wednesday 7th...Tomorrow Night!!!

*No edited Bids, please the Forum does indicate "edited" when posts are edited (look above the "Quote Reply" right hand side) so if you make a bid and it turns out the same or lower than a previous bid please place a new post for the bid to make it higher rather than "edit" the post with the unsuccessful bid - although editing to clarify a Lot # is fine *

Due to no "seconds" showing on Forum time-clock any duplicate bids with the same timestamp will be "first in line" gets the spot

Each Lot Starting at.....~SPOT price!!!

Postage at Winner's Choice/Cost/Risk (at this stage...)

Settlement via Bank Transfer/Cash/Crypto

BONUS – FREE 1/4oz Copper Round(s) for winners of Multiple Lots



And without further ado, on to the Auction...5 Lots up for grabs!!!

Lot 1 - 1 * 1978 Hutt River Province "Hawaii Bicentennial" $100 coin - 8.44gm .999 Gold - Start Price - $685
More info here...




Lot 2 - 1 * 1985 Hutt River Province "Automobile Centennial" One Sovereign coin - 8.04gm .999 Gold - Start Price - $650 *Note - There are a couple of copper spots on the Reverse, this is not uncommon on Gold Coins
More info here...




Lot 3 - 1 * 1986 Hutt River Province "Statue of Liberty Centennial" One Sovereign coin - 8.04gm .999 Gold - Start Price - $650
More info here (they list the mintage as 10,000 but that figure was for the "small change" coins these are estimated to be less than 1000...)




Lot 4 - 1 * 1977 Hutt River Province "Wedge-Tailed Eagle" $100 coin - 8.44gm .999 Gold - Start Price - $685 (Pics in next post here due to image limit)
*Note - This particular one comes with the full "OMP" packaging, CoA (Set# 1025) and receipt of purchase from 1978!!
More info here...

Lot 5 - 1 * 1985 UNC Carded Koala $200 coin - 10gm 22k (.917) Gold AGW 0.2948oz - Start Price - $745
(Pics in next post here due to image limit)

Thanks for Looking

 

Continued from Op...

Lot 4 - 1 * 1977 Hutt River Province "Wedge-Tailed Eagle" $100 coin - 8.44gm .999 Gold - Start Price - $685
More info here...





Lot 5 - 1 * 1985 UNC Carded Koala $200 coin - 10gm 22k (.917) Gold AGW 0.2948oz - Start Price - $745








Thanks for Looking

 

Lot 5 - $745

 

About Lot 4, did you buy it yourself in 1978?

 

Not me mate, I would've been 11 at the time

 

Ahoy, Welcome Aboard and thanks for the bid @ppier (getting Lot 5 (UNC Koala) off and running )

All the other spot price historical gold waiting at the Starter's Gate

(Will put a Leader-Board together when I get home, too hard to do on the phone )

 

Lot 1 2 3 4. Start spot

 

Lot 1 & lot 4
$690 each on the floor

 

Ahoy, Welcome Aboard and thanks for the bids @Beyond (getting the rest of the field on the track I think one of these I got from you mate, iirc? ) and @REDBACK (putting his mark on Lot 1 ('78 Hawaii $100) and Lot 4 ('77 Eagle $100) )

And we are off and running across ALL Lots

I'll add a few more links in the OP as we go, for some additional info on these very interesting pieces (quite a character was Prince Len )

Leader-Board

Lot 1 (’78 Hawaii) – $690 REDBACK
Lot 2 (’85 Auto Sov) – $650 Beyond
Lot 3 (’86 Liberty) – $650 Beyond
Lot 4 (’77 Eagle) – $690 REDBACK
Lot 5 (’85 Koala) – $745 ppier

 

Love to bid (and call me naive) but are you really in Romania dude?

 

Haha, nah mate..."A Galaxy far, far away..." (also known as Western Australia )


My VPN must really be messing with the site though

 

Fear not goldude, Adze67 is the most honest Romanian crime Boss you'll come across.He gives you 3 chances to pay at auction close b4 he uses a hammer
Lot 2 and lot 3 $655 each

 

Sshhhh...trade secrets mate

Ahoy, Welcome Back and thanks for the bids @REDBACK (throwing his hat into the ring (not the deadly @Oddjob type, more a Russell Coight Akubra type ) to add Lot 2 ('85 Automobile Centennial Sov) and Lot 3 ('86 Statue of Liberty Sov) to take the lead on All the HRP Gold )...not sure if he's after the gold or the copper

Leader-Board

Lot 1 (’78 Hawaii) – $690 REDBACK
Lot 2 (’85 Auto Sov) – $655 REDBACK
Lot 3 (’86 Liberty) – $655 REDBACK
Lot 4 (’77 Eagle) – $690 REDBACK
Lot 5 (’85 Koala) – $745 ppier

Added links to the Numista pages for these coins in the OP too

Oh, and with the gold price going up the Koala is now currently $1 under Spot (just saying )

 

I'll leave this leave for a bit and watch how this auction unfolds into tomorrow......

 

Lot 5 (’85 Koala) – $747

 

Ahoy, Welcome Back and thanks for the bid @ppier (throwing a CPI bid in to out-bid himself on Lot 5 (the '85 Koala) )

The crack about the Koala being under spot wasn't a dig at you mate, more so a "Look over here, cheap gold" sort of comment but by out-bidding yourself, you have taken the spot someone else may have snuck in on so to that I say "Well played good sir"

Auction finish starting in just over 9 & 1/2 hours' time

Leader-Board

Lot 1 (’78 Hawaii) – $690 REDBACK
Lot 2 (’85 Auto Sov) – $655 REDBACK
Lot 3 (’86 Liberty) – $655 REDBACK
Lot 4 (’77 Eagle) – $690 REDBACK
Lot 5 (’85 Koala) – $747 ppier

 

1 (’78 Hawaii) – $691
Lot 2 (’85 Auto Sov) – $656
Lot 3 (’86 Liberty) – $656
Lot 4 (’77 Eagle) – $691

 

Lot 1 & 4
$695 each

 

Lot 4 $700
Lot 5 $750

 

Ahoy, Welcome Back and thanks for the bids @Beyond (re-joining the show with incremental bid increases across Lots 1 through 4 (the HRP Gold) and still in the box seat for Lots 2 & 3 (The Sovs) ) and @REDBACK (swinging back in to re-gain pole position for Lot 1 ('78Hawaii) and raise the stakes for Lot 4 ('77 Eagle with bonus bits) )

Ahoy, Welcome Aboard and thanks for the bids @JohnnyBoy (moving to the front of the pack for Lot 4 (previously mentioned HRP $100, snatched from @REDBACK ) and Lot 5 (the still "very cheap" '85 Koala $200) )

Auction finish starting in around 50 minutes' time

Leader-Board

Lot 1 (’78 Hawaii) – $695 REDBACK
Lot 2 (’85 Auto Sov) – $656 Beyond
Lot 3 (’86 Liberty) – $656 Beyond
Lot 4 (’77 Eagle) – $700 JohnnyBoy
Lot 5 (’85 Koala) – $750 JohnnyBoy