That’s A Pretty Penny

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Heritage Auctions which ran its first successful domain auction a few months back is currently running an auction in Florida (non – domain related). Aron Meystedt mentioned HA.com is having a big auction in Florida this week called F.U.N. There are a few of the worlds’ most valuable US coins in the auction.

Some of these results are just WOW

I think this shows that the buying power Heritage has is pretty big and if they can gradually get more and more people interested in domains then Aron is on to something big.

Here is a look at the top 5 sales

coin1

1787 DBLN Brasher Doubloon, EB on Wing, W-5840, MS63 NGC. CAC.…

Lot 5100 Sold For: $4,582,500.00‡

coin2

1913 5C Liberty PR64 NGC. CAC.…

Lot 5161 Sold For: $3,290,000.00‡

coin3

1927-D $20 MS66 NGC.…

Lot 5597 Sold For: $1,997,500.00‡

coin4

1884 T$1 PR65 PCGS. CAC.…

Lot 5311 Sold For: $998,750.00‡

coin5

1852 $10 Moffat & Co. Wide Date Ten Dollar SP63 PCGS. CAC. K-9, R.6, R.8 as a specimen striking.…

Lot 5629 Sold For: $940,000.00‡

About Raymond Hackney

Raymond is a writer, domain trader and consultant based in Pennsylvania. Raymond is the founder of 3Character.com and TLDInvestors.com.

Comments

  1. homeroag says

    Heritage is a Powerhouse in Numismatics, Antique, Art Auctions and more… Under the guidance of Aron Meystedt they will quickly become a major player in the domain name auction and sales space. (they are already making waves…)

    Fun Stands for Florida United Numismatists and they host one of the biggest “Coin”
    and Numismatics shows of the year.

    Follow these two links below for more info

    Florida’s Fun Show starts this January 9

    http://numismatica.com/floridas-fun-show-starts-this-january-9th/

    If you want to understand the size of the “US Rare coin Market” follow the next link and read the report. (Be aware, This is just the US market…)

    U.S. Rare Coin Market Roared in 2013, Reports Professional Numismatists Guild

    http://numismatica.com/u-s-rare-coin-market-roared-in-2013-reports-professional-

    numismatists-guild/

    Cheers!

  4. Michael Berkens says

    Lance

    Well Heritage is the 3rd largest auction house in the US and now has moved into the domain name auction business so its worth keeping an eye on.

    Moreover HA is going to even get more involved in the domain space.

    Many also consider domains to be like other rare assets like coins and paintings remarkable that a small coin most wouldn’t bother to pick up if they saw it laying on the street would fetch $5M

    Besides at thedomains.com we cover more than just pure domain stories including in the past 30 days, Bitcoin, Google and other Internet advertising news.

  6. Homero A. Gonzalez says

    Raymond, Michael Thank you for such informative posts.

    I wanted to add that Heritage Auctions owns several hundred domains related to coin collecting, collecting, in general, auctions, art, antiques etc. They’ve had a presence in the internet for many years, they started with heritageauctions.com and then changed to HA.com. They have a superb software system for coin collectors and an auction platform that is just awesome. They have refined the software over the years, as only somebody who understands the business can do. (This alone is worth millions!!!)

    They are just entering the domain auction and sale market, and they are definitely a company worth watching. They recruited Aron Meystedt, who is a very knowledgeable and capable domain name investor (He owns symbolics.com, the first and oldest domain, is that cool or what???) I will, be watching and learning.

    Keep up the “Excellent” work.

    Cheers!