Pain in the a**e Indian gentleman(?)

[Pain in the a**e Indian gentleman(?)]

why not suggest he rides the golden horse cart round to your place for a valuation

[Ebay's Worst Offerings]

TBH ITS A SUPER COIN JUST THAT TINY KNOCK RUINS IT BUT WORTH A £10 NOTE ANY DAY

[Ebay's Worst Offerings]

I have looked for ages and no t*ts ore a**e is visible , must admit i like the item - really unusual.....

[Import VAT Bill £59.54 on £150 item?]

No doubt shooting Buddhas would go down badly with the PC brigade and be banned as being racist

[Henry VIII Groat]

Lovely portrait...

[Import VAT Bill £59.54 on £150 item?]

For £1 each you could use them as an alternative to clay pigeons >

"FORE" BANG!!!

[Import VAT Bill £59.54 on £150 item?]

Sounds like it will be a lot cheaper to buy this sort of item from a wholesaler.

You will know better next time.

Rub that Buddhas belly and dream of not being ripped off

[1881H Farthing CCGB2015 value]

Yes, but we merely pointed out he was wrong, and he went ballistic about it, with coins it's a variety or not a variety or a grade or not a grade nothing else matters , some on here have spent years grading coins and are about fit enough to work for a slabbing company (not that I want anyone to start on that slippery slope).

Buying a book and studying for half an hour will not be enough to get you anywhere near the grading standards of the experience collectors on here.

He should be heeding what we say and learning from us and not just throwing his toys out of the pram , because he does not like what we have to say

[1881H Farthing CCGB2015 value]

ALL THIS FUSS OVER A £3 COIN !!!!

[KINGS & QUEENS OF ENGLAND SILVER MEDALLIONS - South African]

I know Lawrence Chard used to stock silver medals and Bob Ilsley of Dolphin (now Three Counties Coins) some South African coins etc. Might be worth contacting either of them?

However, my guess is that however much the medallions were marketed or sold for originally, if you can't find much evidence of demand for such a set then close to bullion would be a reasonable starting point. You don't say if you're looking to buy or sell, but if the latter maybe add on a bit to the BV for the fact its a set and no doubt looks nice and see what interest you get?

As it says on Chard's website: The secondary (secondhand) market prices for silver medallions is usually quite competitively priced, and for connoisseurs of medallic or numismatic art, previously owned medallion sets often represent a bargain especially compared with the original new prices.

In other words, these things cost a fortune when issued with promises of 'investment potential' but when it comes to selling they don't realise anything like as much.

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In other words - don't believe the bullshit

[KINGS & QUEENS OF ENGLAND SILVER MEDALLIONS - South African]

I thought there was a embargo on south african goods at that time !!!!??????

[1881H Farthing CCGB2015 value]

I suppose we all learn in life from the "school of hard knocks" and in the end , we are all the same fish in a barrel ,so if one fish jumps out it learns it's lesson by dieing on the floor very painfully gasping for breath.

[1881H Farthing CCGB2015 value]

I find it strange he went mad and said I was wrong with the coin being cleaned , unless he is 135 years old (very unlikely) he will not have been the only person to own the coin so how can he state categorically that it's never been cleaned .

In fact the coin looks like its been cleaned a good seventy or eighty years ago and is toning down so it has not affected the value that much to most collectors maybe knock 33% off

[1881H Farthing CCGB2015 value]

If you have no idea what two drunks are talking about your probably sober :D :D

[1881H Farthing CCGB2015 value]

We can be a little abrupt on here and tell non regulars what they don't really want to know , that is the hobby's problem as well and not only ours we will not waste time buttering people up and not telling them that a spade is a spade.

Coin collectors almost immediately know the value of a coin and its grade

[1881H Farthing CCGB2015 value]

but sorry fluke THE COIN LOOKS CLEANED

[1881H Farthing CCGB2015 value]

Fluke is partly right we can be a little unfriendly on here and you do have to remember everyone has to start somewhere , we all remember that first coin that started us off collecting , there was so much to learn from the beginning

[1881H Farthing CCGB2015 value]

Looks no better than VF to me , also looks cleaned , I doubt if the coin is worth over £20

[Scrap Predecimal pennies wanted]

I am sure Scott does not have 1/2 ton of scrap pre-decimal pennies hanging around , 1/4 ton he might have, LOL

[1902 Matt Proof Set Crown Down to Maundy]

I like the crown best - totally yummy.

[Is there a £3000 coin in your pocket?]

As numismatics is concerned decimal coins will never be scarce or show a great profit , I must admit in the last ten years or so it's got far more interesting with commems being fired out right left and centre.

I think this bodes well for the coin collectors in the future as really the age of the average collector these days is prob around 55 years old and the hobby will die without new blood.

I suppose things like the publicity around the undated 20p and kew gardens 50p can do little long term harm and more good than anything really.

Sixties and seventies crowns did little for the hobby in the long term , in fact putting many people off putting money into coins for life (remember the bags of Churchill crowns marketed as an investment)

[Oh the U.S. Market..]

I think many American coins are really lovely V nickles, wheat cents, buffalo nickles, and those huge silver dollars which are really quite cheap due to plenty being around,the gold esp. the early stuff is very attractive and make you think of the wild west. I must admit the prices of rarities are around 100 times more than a similar English french or German coins

Overall though I am happy to collect UK coins.

[Is there a £3000 coin in your pocket?]

I would have a guess at around a hundred - but it could be far less.

More and more will come to light in coming years .

I suspect this variety might be worth around £300 in a few years time as more and more finds are made, and the novelty fades away

There again i thought that undated 20p coins would be worth £5 now and they still fetch £30 so I could easy be wrong - it's not an exact science

[Halfpenny variety]

I don't think Scott specializes in coins costing over £10 if you know what I mean

[George V First Series Silver Coins]

my grandads were inscribed on the edge , or just the silver one was he was an ord tommy in the royal marines - not sure if he had to pay extra for that.

By the way ist WW medals were superbly struck though it is rare to see one these days that has not been well cleaned.

English WWW1 medals are often called Pip squeak and Wilfred , after a popular cartoon in a national newspaper I think