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Our next Odd & Curious Sale is on iCollector

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A special auction announcement


We are delighted to announce that our next “Odd & Curious” sale is now live on iCollector, with a closing date of Saturday, March 18th.
 

Our Sale

Almost 500 diverse lots of Coins, Banknotes, Medals and Tokens are up for bidding, with a reduced Buyer’s Premium of just 10% on all hammer prices.

How it Works

Lot Settlement/Pickup


Successful bidders are welcome to have their invoices settled directly through iCollector, using their registered cards, or by Cash, Email Transfer, or Debit when picked up here in Almonte.

Lots may also be picked up, by appointment, at Chris Green Stamps in Ottawa, or at the April 9th Ottawa Coin Show, held at the Westboro Legion on Richmond Road.

All lots will otherwise be shipped through Canada Post, and we request your patience as we work to get all packages out as quickly as possible.

A note on images: please note we are continuing to work on remaining images over the next few days, so please check back regularly if the images for your lots of interest have yet to appear.

Please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions you may have, and we wish you success in our current sale!

Featured lots

We have so many lots available, and these four are a wonderful set of highlights for the sale:

A remarkable Edwardian Horse Hoof Sterling Inkwell
Early Pocket Watch Chain with Rare Carson City Quarter Eagle
A Desirable “Simpsons” Tuvalu 2 Dollars 2019 Silver Proof
A Scarce & Early Toronto Standard Fuel Co. Encased 1900 Cent

Expo Auction Sale Heralds return of in-person bidding

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Our September 29th auction sale, held at the Toronto Coin Expo, saw just over 100 successful bidders take part in our offering of more than 400 diverse lots of coins, medals, banknotes and tokens via the iCollector platform.

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September Online Auction Update!

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We’re super-excited to share our session of the impending Toronto Coin Expo sale with our customers, and apologize that due to a few technical issues getting launched with the iCollector platform, we are running a few days late.

Currently, we hope to have the full sale launched by the weekend, and continue to prepare the lot images in batches.

Updated to add: the auction is now live!

Online Auction Link
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September online auction with live auction component

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It has been several weeks since our commercial lockdown ended, and things are once again hopping in the collectibles world as we begin to welcome customers back into our shops and galleries.

Toronto Coin Expo Session I Sale

For us, all efforts and planning are currently going into preparations for our largest ever online auction with a live auction component at the end of the event. We’re doing this as part of the Toronto Coin Expo Session I Sale, which will replace the Expo’s normal in-person auction this fall (Session II of the sale will be run by our auction partners Geoffrey Bell Auctions). This is now shaping up to be the most exciting event we have ever hosted. Thanks to some wonderful consignments, we now anticipate offering a sale of more than 700 lots of quality Canadian and world material.

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Knight Bachelor Badge

The second wave of our ebay sale arrives!

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I hope this brief update finds everyone and their families safe and secure, as this insidious disease moves from being a distant threat to a very local one that now penetrates the sanctuary of many if not all of our own communities, big or small, rural or urban. Our faith, perseverance, and steadfast adherence to the very sage public health advice will carry us through to brighter days ahead.

Although now approaching one full month since the temporary closure of our retail store here in Almonte, it has been a very busy period for Alliance Coin & Banknote. Thanks to the wonderful support of our mail-order customers, more than 100 items from our recent Spring Catalogue have now found their way into the homes of fellow house-bound collectors. Hundreds of diverse items remain available from this price-list, so please feel free to browse its pages.

I am also very pleased to report that we have just closed out our single most successful ebay “Weird & Wonderful” campaign of the past few years, with more than 200 lots heading out to quite literally every corner of this continent. As with most industries these days, times are tough for the collectibles small business community, and I would like to humbly and sincerely thank our customers for your support over the past month.

I am also delighted to announce tonight’s launch of “wave two” in our ebay campaign, with new lots being added each and every day. Highlighted here is a small teaser selection of the truly remarkable items we have coming up for sale in the coming days – keep watch via the ebay link, and consider adding something new and unique to your collection!

Once again, I wish everyone well in the coming weeks.

Stay safe, and keep the faith.

Sincerely,
Sean Isaacs

Telephone: 613-256-6785
Toll-free: 888-592-4141
Email: sean@alliancecoin.com

Click to enlarge the images below!

A pristine TD Bank Silver Bar by Johnson-Matthey
A very cool off-cut Canadian Twenty Dollar note
A scarce and lovely Knight Bachelor’s badge of Queen Elizabeth, in vermillion and gilt Sterling Silver
A scarce Indian Chief Centennial Medal for Treaty No.6
A fine Ottawa Skating Rink Medal of 1876-77
A unique Silver Prize Medal of the 1894 Quebec Winter Carnival
A rarely encountered Press Badge from the 1976 Montreal Olympics

Auction 2018 an enjoyable success!

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On June 10th, 2018 we held our second live public coin auction, once again from the floor of Almonte’s venerable Old Town Hall.

With 52 registered bidders and an overall sell rate of approximately 90%, this offering of more than 600 diverse lots attracted a good crowd, and by all accounts, an enjoyable time was had by all.

Auction Catalogue print cover

Auction Catalogue

Highlights of our sale included a lovely “Queen Mary” Five Dollar note of 1924, which sold for $6,000 in spirited bidding, while the nod for “most active lot” went to a very scarce 1939 Royal Visit presentation medal to a member of the Queen’s R.C.M.P. escort, which also included an excessively rare embossed luncheon napkin from the visit. With a pre-sale estimate of $150, this historically significant pair of items found a new home at $450.

Our sincere thanks go out to all who participated in our sale, as well as to David Giles for once again serving as our auctioneer, and to Foil Media for their fine work in designing our online auction template and print-catalogue production interface.

We look forward to hosting our third sale in 2019, and will strive to have our printed catalogues available in much better timing.