The Colin Cooke Collection of Farthings

Part 2 will be sold mid-November

Bidding Information

In the initial seven day period of the lists being sent out, collectors and dealers can place bids for the items they are particularly seeking, starting from the 15th September 2010.

After this seven day period we will knock down the coins with bids and sell them to the high bidder. For all coins with no bids we will let them go at their lower estimate i.e. after two weeks the remaining coins will be for sale at the lower estimate price plus premium. This seven day period will finish on the 22th September 2010.

Please see our Terms & Conditions of sale relating to this collection

The James Workman Superior Collection of Pennies

This Superior collection of British bronze pennies started its formation in the year 2000. My father known to many of you as "Bernie" convinced me that collecting coins was a better idea than saving money in the bank. His ulterior motive was that I would not be able to spend it! I agreed that I would buy coins from my father at cost price, this sounded fine, but always kept me fairly broke! There was a constant flow of pennies of which amazed me, where were they coming from? Apparently from coin fairs, one or two a month, from dealers, from coin dealers worldwide, from other collectors and from EBay. It gave my father great pleasure in searching out these coins as he was finding it more and more difficult to find new variety or higher grade pennies for his own collection. Over the last five years the only coins that I required were becoming very expensive but this did not stop the flow of coins into my collection. Unbeknown to me, my father was selling me affordable pennies at original cost price from his own collection. In this last year, the supply of pennies declined, my father had no more to offer me at prices that I could afford. I have never got that attached to my collection, it is my father's obsession, not mine. I discussed selling my collection with my father to raise money for a deposit on a house. To my surprise he agreed ! "What a brilliant idea !"

James Workman