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December 5, 2014 The prices realised report for Noble Numismatics Auction 107, held in Sydney in November 2014, shows that the total turover came to $5.08 million - the highest for any Noble sale since late 2008, which is roughly when the Australian numismatic m...

The most recent auction held by Downies in Melbourne I understand was the last one to be managed by Chris Meallin - a long-time senior staffer at Downie’s. Chris has been the face of Downie’s numismatic auctions for many years, and it will be interesting to see...

The mainstream media covered the recent release of of the Royal Australian Mint (RAM) Annual Report for the 2013 - 2014 financial year, and understandably made some sport of the fact that the RAM “reported a loss, after tax, of $4 million”. While it seems rather incongruous that an orga...

I’m now safely back in Perth after the better part of a week in the big smoke of Sydney - it’s a fair distance from Perth and these days I’m always pleased to get out of the place! Even though the last opportunity to view before the Status sale started at 8am, it turned out I was the firs...

Roxbury’s 92nd auction was perhaps more active than some people expected it to be, there were bursts of energy evenly throughout the day. The overall clearance rate came in at78%, with turnover at about $578,000, and an average lot value of around $700....

It’s now been a week since International Auction Galleries held their sale # 80, so it’s an opportune time to review the action as it went down. If you reviewed the catalogue before the sale, you would have seen that the early part of the catalog...

Given the numismatic auction and show schedule for October, it looks like I’ll be accumulating a few frequent flyer points in the coming weeks - 3 auctions and a show are on in 3 separate states over a 3 week period! While I expect I’ll be homesi...

The first section of the IAG catalogue includes a range of affordable world, proclamation and pre-decimal coins, always good to set the atmosphere in the room. It moves onto an area of the market that everyone is keen to see some action in, Pre-Federation notes...