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  1. 7 hours ago, Martinminerva said:

    I had the error screen for over two weeks (on three different PC desktops, in two different locations and on three different browsers), but today for the first time it all works again. I even tried to follow links from the Predecimal.com shopfront and links from Google searches, all to no avail. God knows what happened. I do hope it doesn't happen again. Can @TomGoodheart confirm all is now ok?

    I had the same problem too and wasn't able to get to the site for more than 2 weeks. It didn't work on my laptop or my tablet. But the site has been working for me since yesterday.


  2. Buying an unphotographed coin is always going to be pot luck. I would assume that such a coin has got defects if the price is lower than the going rate. If none of the coins photographed on a dealer's website are bargains, then I don't expect to find a bargain within the unphotographed ones either. BUNC could still have edge knocks, ugly contact marks, etc. I agree it is very annoying to buy a coin remotely only to realise that you would never have brought it in person. For that reason, I would rather miss out on a potential bargain than to risk getting annoyed afterwards.

    I once brought a pair of slabbed MS62 coins from LCA unseen. I took a gamble because they added "with exceptional eye appeal" to the auction description. That turned out quite well.

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  3. There is quite a bit about him on the net. This is on the Noonans website: "Frederick James Jeffery (1907-78), who styled himself as ‘England’s leading provincial coin dealer’, started dealing in coins in 1932. Popularly known as ‘Uncle Fred’ (though not to be confused with Fred Baldwin who also shared the same sobriquet), Jeffery was the first English dealer to regularly attend the American Numismatic Association’s annual convention. His open-style marketing methods and his vast stock ensured that he was well known and he was a fervent supporter of local numismatic societies, often travelling vast distances to a meeting with an estate car laden down with coins and sets to sell to members. His metallic tokens commemorate his 40th year in a business that is carried on today by his son, Richard Jonathan Jeffery; the tokens themselves were struck by Toye Kenning & Spencer in 1973, a decision prompted by the same manufacturer having struck the Wessex Numismatic Society’s Silver Jubilee medal earlier that year, Jeffery being then a prominent member of that Society. Fred Jeffery’s wooden farthing, of which 5,000 were made, was distributed at the 1966 ANA convention in Chicago"

    https://www.noonans.co.uk/auctions/archive/special-collections/1032/401807/?sort=Hammer

    He has some humour it seems and one of the tokens in the link has the legend "illegal tender for any amount".

    The business is still in Yell.

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  4. I think the shield designs are quite clever but each coin doesn't look great on its own unfortunately. Non collectors looking at their change wouldn't even know they can be put together to form a shield.

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  5. Indeed. But prices are so high these days that £30 doesn't go very far. I wouldn't worry when spending that sort of money on an impulse spend. (But the RM is not a place I go to for impulse purchases though.)

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  6. 23 hours ago, mint_mark said:

    I think these designs are great... I wonder if we'll have the chance to collect a full set of 2023 dates from our change?

    I imagine so, particularly if you go to a bank to get some bags of coins. Otherwise a UNC set is £33.

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