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Pleased with this Bramah 26a (no serifs to first I of BRITANNIAR) - quite scarce.
This one is completely issue free aprt from a tiny blemish to the immediate right of the date.
Just £64 best offer accepted.
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1887 Boehm (Jubilee) Victoria Sovereign
This is in excellent condition, a comfortable EF with a large portion of the original mint finish intact, and very little wear on the detail.
Taken with axial lighting.
- Last week
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When I was in holiday in Prague last year, I really liked the 50 Korun coin which is bimetallic (Copper and brass) with attractive obverse and reverse. The photos below are from Numista.
Which designs of foreign coins do you like best?
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They've never been cheap. I paid double that for mine nearly 14 years ago, albeit in a decent grade.
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I have never tried anything apart from acetone with a cotton bud. (And I will probably not try anything else). For me it is very good in dissolving a range of things such as grease. It is more volatile than the various alcohols (due to lower boiling point) and so will quickly evaporate. But I would only consider using it if there is a reason to.
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Stan Laurel? I thought it was Half Man Half Biscuit. 😆
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.....but a pencil must be lead.
Stan Laurel
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Thanks. Another short cross expert said it looked fine too so I did bid, but lost out at £312.99. Didn’t surprise me that it went for that much though.
I’ll just have to be content with my cut half from the same dies for now.
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For anyone who thinks the Rwanda deal is doing anything in our favour, it is of course not.
So in return for sending healthy young men to Rwanda, in exchange we will get unhealthy, sick, old and young parentless refugees, many emotionally and psychologically damaged, from other African wars that Rwanda now wants to get rid of. So Africans don't want the burden of looking after other Africans - offload them onto Britain then, and get paid handsomely for it.
And where are all the Albanians etc are going to go when their obviously spurious asylum claims are rejected in Rwanda? - straight back to their mainly peaceful home countries of course. They aren't going to want to stay in Rwanda! No need for Rwanda to sort them out then.
As HD says in the video - no one tells us this. The whole of the media stay quiet. Once again we're only given one side of the story.
So why are the Left all up in arms about this? Wouldn't this news show how humanitarian and compassionate the government are, and why doesn't the government parade their virtue over this? Well, because the general public are stupid but not that stupid.
I wonder what Michael Rosen thinks. Is he prepared to make a financial contribution to the further burden the NHS is going to be under for this charade?
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It's gone through the bit with the mint signature "EBOR" which is short for EBORACI (York)
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it is a beautifully made HOLE the sharpness of those edges it does not look as if it went into circulation which I am sure would have worn or broken off the exit ....nice example of a shilling is it a YORK ? what has it pierced through ? I can see an E or B but nothing else
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My pierced one. Not sure if it's been pierced for the 1696 recoinage or if it was a touch piece. Always intrigued me.
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Nothing odd jumps out about it. Looks genuine to me. Class IVa with the extra I after the R of Rex.
Sellers got feedback for a few sold Norman coins one registered with PAS.
Stu.
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Most of the coins I collect are under GBP 250 and I have found the mail service between the UK and Australia pretty secure. As long as you keep under the $AU 1000 things seem to arrive without any issues. The other week I received a coin from the UK that was opened by customs claiming biological protection . They resealed the package and sent it on its way.
On ebay you see some very high freight costs sometimes more than the article in question and you have to think this is not helping E commerce.
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I really don’t think submersion is necessary. On anything but proof coins, a gentle ‘mop’ over the surface with a saturated Q-tip will do! Sacrilege I know, but it works, and even on the finest fields, reflected under natural AND artificial light, you’ll perceive no difference…dig out your 1967 pennies and see for yourself.
The one thing I would say, however, and I shared it on here a long time ago…never re-dip your bud into the acetone, otherwise, by the end of the bottle, you’ll be layering more junk onto the coin than you’re taking off!
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You can lead a horse to water.....................
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don't forget surgical (or methylated) spirit.
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Shipping cost is a tricky one for the vendor. Up to £250 is not a problem because it comes within the affordable table of charges for the regular mail. Go over that and you are looking at insured parcels which will typically cost £40+ as a minimum whether you use the postal service or a courier, leaving you with the choice to either lie on the customs form and not be insured for full value, or declare its full value with the attendant costs. If I'm shipping across the world to someone I have never dealt with before, I know which option I will offer.
In the case of the above, surely it is easier for you to be invoiced for a shipping included value from the seller directly rather than through ebay's system, which is clunky at best, often collects tax on behalf of the destination country, but frequently charges the wrong duty rates (e.g. see Jerry's dealing with ebay/HMRC and I was once charged 20% vat on a book!). A shipping included amount would save the 10% GST, but there is no obvious way to avoid the heavy shipping costs other than by under-declaring the value.
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I see they've corrected the F24 missing leaf to reverse F, but inexplicably still haven't noted it as an F24.
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Not to mention Norway, Poland, Denmark, Hungary, Slovakia and Italy. Although no doubt many in Norway and Denmark subsequently made the passage to neutral Sweden if they got the chance.
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You have to feel sorry for the ones that went to france belgium and the neatherlands
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Thank you, and sorry I should have known
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*MINT* PF63, 1911 King George V Silver PROOF Coronation Florin / 2 Shilling, NGC | eBay The coin's not too bad but GBP 70 plus 10% GST to send it to Australia. That's why I like to buy directly from a dealer as you do not pay Australian GST up to $1000 coin value and you can negotiate on the freight.
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I think I have read that at the time there was no agreed standard in continental europe for the value of precious metals so if you had a mind too you could undercut for economic and political reasons the currency of another country. The value for silver was often times greater on the continent and it meant that silver was being taken to the mainland .
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It arrived today. Very pleased, looks as good in hand as the seller's pics. £170 odd is actually quite a decent price.
I had already got an 1858 small date in similar grade, but scruffy looking with spots all over it.
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