Welcome to E-Auction 20!

An interesting mix of things to consider: a few gold pieces including some appealing American currency, ancients with an appeal and interesting history that reflect our belief that “it doesn’t have to be expensive to be appealing,” do note the nicer Greek silver and attractive Roman bronze, some quality English hammered ranging from Anglo Saxon to Stuart followed by copper halfpennies from the Robinson collection including several rare overdates (see below), tokens from the 13th, 18th and 19th centuries, a small run of Russian coins from the doomed reign of Nicholas II, some “raw” early US type coins from a collection we recently purchased and, finally, some fascinating medals marking coronations and a beautiful work of medallist’s art from the Thirty Year’s War to finish the sale. It is an eclectic mix and we enjoyed putting it together.

The ANA course in late June Allan is co-teaching has enough people to run but there is still room. Allan and Chuck Bianchi will take people through the sweep of British coinage with special units on Scotland, Ireland, manufacture and grading British material, and exploration of transitions in design and monetary policy. We can provide details or you can visit the ANA website.

Best wishes,
Allan, Marnie, & Lief Davisson
Monday, May 1, 2017

 

How Bidding Works

 

Davissons Ltd uses a soft close for its auctions, which means no lot closes until everyone is done bidding. Every time a bid is placed within the final 40 seconds of a lot closing, the timer is reset to 40 seconds. This continues until no bids are placed for 40 seconds, at which point the lot closes. There will never be more than one lot closing at once, as the next lot is not allowed to begin closing until the current lot closes.

To bid: enter your maximum bid into the text box, and click submit. Only round dollar amounts are accepted. You are then required to confirm your bid. Once confirmed, all bids are final. If you have placed a bid in error you must call during office hours and speak to one of us. If you are the current high bidder then it will display “Current High Bidder: YOU” If you are not the high bidder, or if you are not logged in, then the current high bidder will be identified by their 5 digit client ID. You may find your client ID under the Account tab.

Bids are reduced automatically, so feel free to bid your maximum and it will be reduced to one increment over the current high bid. If a user places a bid that is higher than necessary to be the current high bidder on the lot, the displayed bid will reflect one advance over the next lower bid. For example, if a user "A" places a bid of $120 on a lot which opens at $100, "A" will be winning that lot at $100. If another user "B" bids $110, the winning bidder will be "A" at $120, one advance over the supporting bid of $110. If user "B" in this example instead placed a bid at $120, then user "A" will still be winning at $120 because they placed that maximum bid value first.

Increments can be viewed here. The next bid will always be on the next increment, so if a user is winning a lot at $100, or $105, or $109, the next bid will still always be $110.

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