metalzzz said:
a couple of coin shop owners ive talked to dont seem to be overly excited by them, im not sure why. One shop owner in sydney i was talking to said he had a chap in a few years ago with about 100 of them. To me that blows out the supposed 600 figure people talk about.
The actual figure is more like 6000.. When the 1st one appeared on ebay i was the under bidder at $3500.00, then the second one appeared and i was the under bidder again but this time at $3000.00 and then the next one, again i was the under bidder. This went on for about the first 6 listings, then i started doing a bit of homework and pin pointed them to Burswood casino in Perth, the following week me and a mate purchased 2 plane tickets to Perth and we spent the whole weekend looking at coins at Burswood.. It paid off cause we found 7, so the following week we went back for a whole week and found another 22..
In those days on average for every 8000 coins you searched through you would find one, that figure has increased every year to the point that you would have to search through 550,000+ to find one today.. The most any person has found is
approx 320 and i know him well, i've sold a choice uncirculated and probably the finest known for just over 10K.. I also helped Greg McDonald compile the figures in his catalogue..
Cheers