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  1. I believe a lot of the prices are down to the Whitman type folders that RM released for the modern 50p. All easy coins to get ,except the 2009 Kew . I know the feeling of needing to fill a gap , so can understand people wanting to pay over the odds to do it. The 1992/93 EEC 50p only had a circulation of 109,000 ( I remember them in my change when I was in my teens ), but sell for half of what a Kew goes for .

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  2. 3 hours ago, 1949threepence said:

    No. 

    To quote from, and courtesy of Paddy's post from Friday at 11:17am, there are three types of EasyLive auctions:-

     

    LCA have chosen option 3, which merely shows the items. It's actually no different to just looking at the same coins on their website. 

    Don't even know what they've fetched.  

    I had a couple of bids on items today .Entered through easybid . Have no idea whether they have won or lost . Is there anywhere that shows what lots have went for ?

     


  3. Ebay died a death (for buyers anyway) when they started free listings .Now it is so bloated with worthless crap and common modern coins ,that it is just a pain to use .My collecting started nearly 20 years ago and 95% of my purchases in the first 5-10  years were from there .I am lucky to buy 1 a month from there now .If they started charging for listings and refunded the charge from the sales fees ,it would go a long way to stopping the crap getting listed . The amount of fakes is another story , but with less listings it would be easier to police .Unfortunately ,they don't seem to want to be a serious platform for coin sales .


  4. 12 minutes ago, rpeddie said:

    i purchased one of  her coins and put it up for sale again, she proceed to message me and gave me abuse about it for some reason?  never dealt with such a nutter on ebay 

    did you make a profit?


  5. 11 hours ago, Ukstu said:

    Verdi care....before & after. Sorry about the picture quality it was just to record the results. 

     

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    Did you soak it in the verdi-care , and if you did ,how long .I have had noticeable results with it , but nothing great . I normally clean with acetone ,rinse and dab with verdicare .I have been worried about leaving it for any more than a few minutes .


  6. Just got some acetone in and had ordered some verdi-care . Decided , because of the postage costs to get the bigger bottle (an extra fiver) .Didn't realise that the cost of the bigger bottle took me over the import threshold for tax . Now I have a bill for £13. 55 to pay before I can pick it up .£8 in costs for the Royal Mail , bloody highway robbers.All because I was trying to save a few quid.

     


  7. 8 hours ago, Bronze & Copper Collector said:

    Normally I am reaching for a book to work out the obverses ,but out of all the TB obverses ,6 is probably the easiest to recognise (even in washers) with the B almost touching viccys head . 


  8. pretty poor condition ,but got them so I could practice trying to Id them .I only havea copy of spink , so I have what I think is an Edward 1st London mint 9a , an Edward III york mint penny (spink 1556), Edward III london mint  (spink 1583) and another Edward III London mint penny     . How did I do ,am I close ?

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  9. 48 minutes ago, Rob said:

    I assume that was just a normal 1936 crown. George V died on 20th January, so the vast majority of coins dated 1936 will technically be Ed.8 even though they used the G5 effigy. If a 1932 crown in FDC is £1/10/-, then 5 shillings more for a 1936 is neither here nor there.

    I forgot that the Wreath crowns carried on till 1936 .Doesn;t sound as special now .

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  10. 9 minutes ago, 1949threepence said:

    That really is going back a hell of a long way, Mick. Virtually outside of living memory.

    It was just a thought .Didn't know whether they where in business for a long time ,or were taken over by someone else . Still interesting to know that you could pick up a 1932 crown in FDC for 30 shillings .Some things for sale that I didn't even know existed , like a 1936 Edward VIII crown with George V head on it for £1/15/-


  11. 2 minutes ago, declanwmagee said:

    My pleasure Mick.  I do something similar with Newly listed Buy-it Nows as well, and find a surprising number of bargains.  I used to treat it as an "if I get time" kind of job until quite recently, when I found a 1904 halfcrown very close to VF for £15.  Sold a couple of weeks later for £150.  Worth doing.

    I have had a few bargains myself , but I tend to do it to try and pick up any penny variations I dont have .Still waiting on my Gouby x for less than a tenner lol. As with most of my collecting , if I am patient ,I will get it eventually at the right price .

     

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  12. 18 minutes ago, declanwmagee said:

    Ah now, careful with that, Mick.  eBay, in their wisdom, do not recognise the pound sign, so if you exclude £1 and £2, you are also excluding anything with the numeral 1 or 2 in the title.  "2 bun pennies", thus will be excluded because you have put "£2" in your exclusion list.  

    That I did not know . thanks for the heads up on that .

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  13. I do something the same, except I check "auction, ending soonest", after removing 50p, 20p, £1, £2 ,pound ,pence, beatrix  ,£5 etc. It takes it down to about 18,000. I then check " buy it nows" from the newly listed direction .The way I look at it , after being listed "buy it now" ,after 24 hours ,anything thats worth buying or is a bargain is already sold .


  14. 6 hours ago, PWA 1967 said:

    Has anyone ever seen a collection or even one coin that has been damaged or toned unaturally by the cabinet please ?

     

    I have seen coins kept in a modern oak display case that have had black blotches and unattractive  toning after a few months (was on a FB page I am on ,and the were modern decimals ,so there was no harm done lol). It was probably the fact that it was new , modern wood is kiln dried and not seasoned properly .The tannins also leach out through time , so an antique case will probably have been made safe a long time ago .

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