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This is the one you've heard about. A beauty that I'd love to own.

Hi Mike, the USA coin is an 1879 MS63 F96, pictures attached, cropped pictures to best utilise 500MB data limit availability. Still think I should be well pleased at price I have paid, but somehow no longer feels like a bargain! I find this variety quite difficult, and have rarely seen in high grade.

Another one bites the dust. Good work guys. ?

I have just received a 'bun' penny I bought at a well known USA auction site, with a hammer of $180. By the time I could get the UPS guy to hand it over I worked out that the total cost including auction fees, their excessive postage, customs charges, and additional UPS fees for helping (!) me pay the customs charges worked out at around £240 (yes £, not $). I am pleased to hear that Mike got the 1874 F69. I was watching the bun pennies getting 'passed' by so quickly that I missed this coin (which was the only one I wanted), Sorry John, enjoy the whiskey.

Herbert, please don't use that bullet - the bloodstain would ruin that pretty pink dress

Fully agree with MrBE on WoC for your coin. I have a feeling that it may be a debased Bull & Rider jital, which would probably put it a way before 1600.

I will thanks Mike. My next step is another sale (probably Tennants if I can negotiate a 0% rate with Rodney, Jane or Jeremy). Perhaps I may return them to LCA with a free hand for them and take a massive hit. I will remove the F21 and hold it for you until you are ready to take it Mike.

No good asking me mate. I didn't get why hardly anything was attracting bids. Some of the halfcrowns were seriously rare and couldn't even attract a bid at a third of the low estimate. Yes you snatched a good one at a good price and that's what keeps our interest up as collectors. Well played Sir, nice straight bat

I must admit, I was very surprised there was so little interest. Maybe not that many were aware of the auction? Some seemed like absolute bargains, and if I wasn't so cleaned out after having my new kitchen, I might have bid for a couple more. As it is, the small work bonus I got at the end of July has neatly covered the F69, which at that price and in that condition, was a cracker of a bargain IMO. I bet at a DNW or Spink live auction, it would have gone for at least twice that, and I'd have been blown out of the water. Can't understand why it didn't go at the LCA, as it's a very rare item, not far off the F76 for rarity.

I had a pleasant few minutes the other day discussing irony with Peter of India, who very politely informed me (half a dozen times), that he was not selling anything, but instead could he ask a few questions to pin down my lifestyle and buying habits in order to reduce the number of unwanted cold calls. After a fairly convoluted discussion and at the sixth time of asking, he also enquired whether I was going to answer any of his questions. My reply enabled him to close the case from his side. Shame his name wasn't Clive, or there would have been a bit more mileage in it.

Agreed. William & Mary tin halfpence are always available and I have five or six which I've bought along the way simply because I like them. I don't have any James halfpence though, just three of his tin farthings. My 'Wow' comment was with regard to it being a 91/92, which is very rare indeed, and how lucky DP was to find one while mettle detecting (Sorry Rob, couldn't resist ).

Ah, I do that when a caller asks me if I need any windows. I'll just go and check..........................

I tell them 'just a minute he's right here, I'll get him for you', then leave the phone on the side and carry on with whatever I'm doing until they're gone.

I hold the current record indoors, 13 minutes talking about Window replacements to one of the spammers from 'Microsoft India' telling me my Computer has been compromised, being a Surveyor I even managed to include technical terms like fenestration and multi point locking into the conversation to add to the confusion their end.