Mail Bid Sales
Under this general category fall offerings of coins published in numismatic periodicals and in catalogues, which invite prospective bidders to participate by telephone, fax, or mail, without floor participation.
MAIL BID SALE TERMS
A mail bid sale is an auction where all bids are submitted in writing.
mail bid sale: a type of auction that accepts bids only by mail, fax, phone, etc. and where no bids are accepted from the floor.
major variety: a design change that is obvious but not significant enough to warrant a change in the type.
mail bid sale An auction sale where bidding is limited to bids by mail. (Today, that also may include by phone, fax, or email.) ...
Mail Bid - An auction format in which bids are submitted by mail; the highest offer for each lot received by the closing date wins the lot. ...
mail bid sale XIV (10/98) 496 ancients. 99 G, 42 RP, 9 RR, 96 RI, 244 Byz AE.
Mail bid auctions are an interesting phenomenon. They are usually closed auctions (meaning that you don't know what your competitors are bidding). So your offer has to win or loose on your first bid. Some mail bids have weird rules.
Mail Bid Sales - Mail bid sales are another way of finding the coins you're looking for, for your coin collection. You can make an offer on the coin based on limits surrounding a minimum bid.
b. Mail bid sales, also often in Coin World.
c. Local dealers shops
d. Live Auctions ...
Kreisberg - Cohen, Mail bid sale, June 29, 1970; Lot #718.
Kreisberg - Cohen, Mail bid sale, September 13, 1971; Lot #2091.
Two counterstamps.
machine doubling Doubling of details resulting from loose dies during the minting process (generally considered to have no numismatic value) mail bid An auction format in which bids are submitted by mail; ...
On September 17, 1913, he conducted a mail bid sale of 916 lots, with many desirable pieces, showing that he had been at the game for at least a year or two or three. The editor of The Numismatist commented, "We wish Mr.
Many European coin dealers also hold auction sales and gladly accept mail bids. In some countries there is a sales tax that has to be paid in addition to the actual price realized; this varies between five and twelve and a half per cent.
This firm has about 6 mail bid only auctions a year (coins, currency, newspapers, documents, autographs and realia. This is a new address as of September 1, 2002) ...
Legend surrounding large S . C
27mm, 10.80g
RIC I, 45 (Tiberius) (C); BMCRE 99 (Tiberius); Cohen 2
Ex CNG Mail Bid Sale 69, Lot 1377, June 2005; Ex Marian A. Sinton Collection (CNG Mail Bid Sale 53, March 2000) ...
A die duplicate of this coin was offered (but not sold due, IMHO, to a ridiculously high estimate) in the Numismatic Fine Arts Spring 1993 Mail Bid sale (lot 729). There the coin was called a 'Barbarous imitation from the Balkans'.
 See also: Bid, Coin, Auction, Collection, Revers
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