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  3. Posted

    In case anyone is interested, I am selling off my collection of British Trade dollars - most dates between 1899 and 1934.

    They are at The Coinery auction finishing Sunday 4th Feb. The Coinery are very reasonable on their commission, charge sensible low rates for postage and dispatch quickly and efficiently, so if you have not bid with them before, be reassured. 

    Their listings are on Easylive.

  7. Posted

    Just to clarify, the Lawrences I referred to is nothing to do with David Lawrence as far as I know.

    12.5% is remarkably good - I must look them out. B Frank & Son (on Easylive) are also very reasonable, though they have had little of interest to me in the last few sales. I can cope with around 20% as long as the service is good. I object to paying 30% or more, particularly as the service at that level is usually no better and often much worse!

    As a tip to the wise, total buyers commission through Easylive usually works out a % or two less than through Saleroom.

     

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    Sorry if this is old news to most of you, but I only learnt about it today from a friend, who is a legitimate Ebay trader. Apparently the Ebay sellers' forums are all agog with this.

    Ebay, Amazon, Etsy and all online selling platforms operating in the UK are now required to provide details to the HMRC of the registered user's address, bank details and trading summaries. The HMRC will use this to send tax demands to anyone who has made more than £1000 profit in any given year and has not already registered to pay tax on this profit. They are expected to go back over the last 5 years or more. The expectation is that many well known sellers will be hit with huge bills and face criminal proceedings if they do not pay. Some are already running for the hills!

     

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    Yes - others have commented on the same problem. I guess the fairly limited print run sold out quickly to people who really wanted a copy!

    It may also be relevant that the pages came loose fairly easily from the spine on this issue. Certainly mine has, and I think I saw other similar comments. As a result, any copies that fall into the hands of book dealers would probably not be listed as they are damaged. Pulped sadly!

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    @SilverAge3 - tips on uploading pictures: In each post the limit is 0.49MB as shown, so first of all shrink each image down to that size. The main point is that if you try to immediately post a second time in the same thread, it will tell you can't because you have reached the limit, BUT if you come out of the thread and then back in, it will then let you load another image.

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  21. Posted

    Not really my specialist area, but I will contribute.

    Yes, appears to match #455 in the list of evasion farthings. I have this list in the back of the Withers Token Book 2010. There is no picture - just a description. In that it shows no date and there is no back up to indicate where this type was produced. There is also no value suggested, which generally indicates it is fairly scarce.

    In your pictures I think I can see the ghost of a date - 1798 or similar? A sharper close up might help.

    Value, as always with these, is a guess. Best market would be in the US where these evasions are closely linked to the earliest US coinage. It could make just £10, or £80 depending on who saw it and needed it for their collection.

    By the way, your Flickr links give access to all you photos on that site - I hope that was what you intended? 🙂 

  22. Posted

    As a separate comment, I bought at Fieldings auction yesterday, and their service was impeccable. Combined invoice received with 1 hour of the end of the auction. I requested postage online and this was quoted within minutes - £15 plus VAT for lots totalling around £500, which is reasonable. I paid before 5pm yesterday and the coins arrived by Special Delivery today around 14.30. Spot on!

     

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  23. Posted

    As the coins are now safely in the hands of a trusted friend, I will reveal all.

    Firstly, an amelioration of my previous criticism: the staff at Lawrences are extremely helpful and have resolved the confusions caused by their systems cheerfully and without quibble. So the criticism goes to their admin system - AUCTIONET - and whoever in management decided this was a good approach to customer service, and made this an obligatory default for payment.

    Specifically:

    It insists on sending out separate invoices for each lot sold,
    The process for requesting combined invoices is complex and requires manual intervention by AUCTIONET, not the auction house,
    The postage costs are set very high, and by default are charged separately for each lot, with minimal discount for combined postage when achieved,
    The payment process is buggy - it cannot cope with more than payment per session, so you have to log out and back in for each transaction,
    By default it starts sending out abrupt "storage charge" emails after only 1 week and with no consideration as to the size of the lots.

    So my advice would be: if you find out your auction house is using AUCTIONET, be prepared for frustration.

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  24. Posted

    Definitely not the mule and I have messaged him to that effect.

    If he can't see that the border on the reverse is toothed, not beaded, he can check on the rocks to the left of the lighthouse. On the beaded reverse, there are 3 distinct rocks, whereas on the toothed there is a single large rock.

     

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