[Peckris]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Two-shillings-coin-1...4#ht_500wt_1022

"two shillings coin 1966. Picture above is not of actual coin but is identical other than mine is dirtier and the date is different"



What next, a picture of a 1933 penny to illustrate a 1936 penny??

[Peckris]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/rare-1p-silver-look-...#ht_2535wt_1007

Isn't that some copper showing through on the bigger picture, lower down? Hm, how do we know this isn't a 1p that's just been silvered? Let's face it, a normal 1p doesn't go through some "mysterious coppering process", and is never silver at any stage of its life!

[scott]

did they not make some silver pennies...
it could miss the copper plate over the steel.. but thats all it is unless its been modified

[Flash]

I actually contacted this seller saying that it's probably been mercury plated. Even if it hasn't it's still worth nothing as it's chemically altered. Got a rather bizarre reply but I see the price has been dropped by about £20,000.00

[davidrj]

This one got me excited momentarilly!!!!

George V facing right

[Peckris]

davidrj, on Oct 5 2009, 04:28 PM, said:

This one got me excited momentarilly!!!!

George V facing right

Spooky! He looks SO different facing the other way...

[Coppers]

Anyone remember this?

Now only £199.99 or best offer

[Rob]

Coppers, on Oct 10 2009, 07:49 PM, said:

Anyone remember this?

Now only £199.99 or best offer

It's actually more interesting than even he realises. Not only is it 1952, but it is combined with the later obverse used from 1954. You can see an unbarred H of Elizabeth at about the same level as the chin and the II below it. The earlier obverse has both H and II at about chin level to allow space for the BRITT OMN.

Somebody put him out of his misery.....please.

This post has been edited by Rob: 10 October 2009 - 07:26 PM

[Peckris]

Rob, on Oct 10 2009, 08:23 PM, said:

Coppers, on Oct 10 2009, 07:49 PM, said:

Anyone remember this?

Now only £199.99 or best offer

It's actually more interesting than even he realises. Not only is it 1952, but it is combined with the later obverse used from 1954. You can see an unbarred H of Elizabeth at about the same level as the chin and the II below it. The earlier obverse has both H and II at about chin level to allow space for the BRITT OMN.

Somebody put him out of his misery.....please.

Ah, but what we fools fail to realise is that 1952 is only 4 years after aliens landed at Roswell - clearly they had a tachyon inverter beam used as a phase inverter, stray particles from which were reflected from a strange weather formation over Tower Hill, giving one of the Mint employees a weird timeslip vision of the future, two years' hence. This employee, working on proto-brass 3d patterns, subconsciously realised that BRITT OMN was to be soon removed from the legend, and omitted it from the pattern, this being an FDC example of the final result.

[Peckris]

£320 for THIS lot???

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/5-guineas-pre-1920-s...#ht_1095wt_1007

Someone must have a lot more money than sense. £5.25 face value of pre-1920 silver would fetch ... what ... £100, £110, tops? As coins, rather than silver, they are just poor (well, VG+ which amounts to much the same thing for what are likely to be pretty common dates).

This post has been edited by Peckris: 12 October 2009 - 05:08 PM

[Rob]

Peckris, on Oct 12 2009, 06:04 PM, said:

£320 for THIS lot???

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/5-guineas-pre-1920-s...#ht_1095wt_1007

Someone must have a lot more money than sense. £5.25 face value of pre-1920 silver would fetch ... what ... £100, £110, tops? As coins, rather than silver, they are just poor (well, VG+ which amounts to much the same thing for what are likely to be pretty common dates).

Spot price for silver today is about £200 for £5.25 face.

[Flash]

Scrap silver has been selling well above melt price for 2 weeks or so now - odd, but I'm not complaining!

[Peckris]

Rob, on Oct 12 2009, 06:43 PM, said:

Peckris, on Oct 12 2009, 06:04 PM, said:

£320 for THIS lot???

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/5-guineas-pre-1920-s...#ht_1095wt_1007

Someone must have a lot more money than sense. £5.25 face value of pre-1920 silver would fetch ... what ... £100, £110, tops? As coins, rather than silver, they are just poor (well, VG+ which amounts to much the same thing for what are likely to be pretty common dates).

Spot price for silver today is about £200 for £5.25 face.

As high as that? Well, someone still paid £120 over the odds! Crazy.

[Coppers]

Coppers, on Sep 10 2009, 03:53 AM, said:

Another penny for our consideration....

One in a million?

Looks like this seller has set his sites a tad lower...

Try Try Again

This post has been edited by Coppers: 17 October 2009 - 04:10 AM

[Coppers]

A 33 penny which the seller indicates has been examined and found to be altered...

Link

[Gary D]

Coppers, on Oct 17 2009, 08:49 PM, said:

A 33 penny which the seller indicates has been examined and found to be altered...

Link

Looks to be a very good example, I was thinking of having a punt myself if it does go too far. It could make £100 which is not too outrageous for a very well done altered date.

[Peter]

Looks like a nice bit of shill bidding going on here.

[Red Riley]

Peter, on Oct 18 2009, 07:17 PM, said:

Looks like a nice bit of shill bidding going on here.

I don't know so much. Looks like quite a good forgery and I would expect it to realise a decent price.

[Peter]

Red Riley, on Oct 18 2009, 08:05 PM, said:

Peter, on Oct 18 2009, 07:17 PM, said:

Looks like a nice bit of shill bidding going on here.

I don't know so much. Looks like quite a good forgery and I would expect it to realise a decent price.

Bidder 2 4 & 7 are Shilling....smell the coffee

[Coppers]

Peter, on Oct 19 2009, 01:28 AM, said:

Red Riley, on Oct 18 2009, 08:05 PM, said:

Peter, on Oct 18 2009, 07:17 PM, said:

Looks like a nice bit of shill bidding going on here.

I don't know so much. Looks like quite a good forgery and I would expect it to realise a decent price.

Bidder 2 4 & 7 are Shilling....smell the coffee

Now at £102.00

[Gary D]

Coppers, on Oct 19 2009, 09:31 AM, said:

Peter, on Oct 19 2009, 01:28 AM, said:

Red Riley, on Oct 18 2009, 08:05 PM, said:

Peter, on Oct 18 2009, 07:17 PM, said:

Looks like a nice bit of shill bidding going on here.

I don't know so much. Looks like quite a good forgery and I would expect it to realise a decent price.

Bidder 2 4 & 7 are Shilling....smell the coffee

Now at £102.00

Went for £240, a bit more than I expected but it did look a good one to Bidder 2, Still think it was shilling? I've got a load of coins on there at the moment if anyone wants to shill them up a bit

[Peckris]

Gary D, on Oct 19 2009, 04:49 PM, said:

Went for £240, a bit more than I expected but it did look a good one to Bidder 2, Still think it was shilling? I've got a load of coins on there at the moment if anyone wants to shill them up a bit

Doesn't surprise me it went for so much. It's such a good forgery it's almost like having the real thing Bargain.

[Gary D]

This one realy did make me laugh

A what!!!

[Coppers]

Now here's a coin that likely missing from most collection...

The only one online

[Rob]

Coppers, on Oct 24 2009, 02:57 AM, said:

Now here's a coin that likely missing from most collection...

The only one online

This quote from his sales pitch seems a bit cheeky. Although many businesses make additional profits on shipping & handling, I find it distasteful and therefore refuse to do so. For individual raw coins it will always be 60¢ to anywhere in the U.S. and $1 to anywhere outside the U.S. . The opening price of $5000 is clearly not OTT. I was going to say that it probably is the only 1670 farthing listed, but if you look hard you should be able to find another - incorrectly described as a 1672, 1673 etc. and in a suitably dire grade

This post has been edited by Rob: 24 October 2009 - 09:06 AM

[Peter]

This could have also gone into the slabbing debate.
What a joke.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/20p-NO-DATE-MULE-CGS...=item1c0bc23310

This post has been edited by Peter: 27 October 2009 - 09:07 PM

[Peter]

and another.....what a complete farce.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...em=120456365825

[Peckris]

Peter, on Oct 27 2009, 09:07 PM, said:

This could have also gone into the slabbing debate.
What a joke.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/20p-NO-DATE-MULE-CGS...=item1c0bc23310

Apparently only 7 certified. No, make that 8, there's the winning bidder to add to the total...

[davidrj]

What do folk here think of this one 1869 penny?

the date looks very odd to me

[Flash]

Lol a replacement "6" and not a particularly good one!!!
Don't think much his grading either. A fine reverse and an approaching VF reverse doesn't = VF