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My latest . I'll probably get stuffed by customs as well but If this is what I believe it is it will be worth the expense. 1916 Penny Recessed ear Broken border tooth after last T of BRITT

Must be something about Florins of that era. I also have a 1900 which I repatriated from a New Zealand coin dealer's website a few years ago. Very similar in toning to yours! Sorry for the thread hijack Mick, look forward to seeing your incoming 1937s in due course

detecting season has been in full swing, been very very lucky (except for the groat that as a couple of years ago, and thats how it came out the soil) Tealby penny, constantine siliqua Elixabeth I sixpence Edward III London Groat William III Shilling Henry III penny, Nicole on canterbury class 3d

I picked up this beautiful 1900 Florin. The grey-scale toning on the reverse is really nice IMO.

now the round pounds are almost out of circulation i hope my Piedforts and patterns will go up in value

These are the two, for completeness of the previous post

wish i could take a decent picture lol

I picked these up in auction last month. A couple of small Spanish colonial coins from Lima - pictured below with a farthing to give an idea of the size. I find very amusing that these little coins are tiny miniaturisations of the larger 8R with practically the same design and details - and even the elaborate edge detail that was done turning the coin between two parallel linear dies. Such an awful amount of work! As the mints were paid on the basis of weight of silver minted, there was little incentive to mint small coins and these are quite hard to find in good condition. The vast majority of the silver mined in America at the time was used to mint 8-reales, often meant to be sent to Spain or for the trans-pacific trade. In particular and looking at these two little ones, in 1755 in Lima it was recorded 55,686 kilos of silver minted into coins, of which 53,111 were made into 8Rs and 4Rs and the rest (less than 5%) was left for smaller change - 2Rs, 1R, 1/2R

Ouch! Don't like that one bit....Well, I'll look the other way as others get happy.

Not as good as GC's, but then, that cost him twice as much

And a genuine one- ok it's the later issue, but it's why a provenance is so valuable. As both Coinery and I said - never ever throw away a ticket.

As a dealer you have 2 ways you can go. 1) keep the cash and lose a customer or 20. 2) give a refund, take a hit and keep your reputation intact. No-brainer really (unless you've got no brain). It would be remiss of me to pass judgement on a fellow dealer........

Welcome to the forum, Jester. You'll get lots of friendly advice from this forum. The guys here are great!

Think i posted this in eBays worst offerings last week. I felt it was a replica.

i think i shouted at hem both down the phone at some point after many ignored emails lol the stock they have and they still felt happy with fleecing me out of £190 quid, ok i should have been aware of what i was buying but i trusted them, my fault really, they still keep sending me catalogs and emails when i asked them not too, would never buy from them again, or recommend, always something a little wrong with the coins they sell, little digs, corrosion, unsightly toning, i know a coin cannot be perfect. but you know what i mean

been picking up a few farthings, this one cost me a quid, is this a collectible grade ? or do you lot go for uncirculated ? what grade would you put this into ? heads side looks better than the tails

Welcome Jester. Great area of interest and one very common in Oz as we used the British silver until (and no doubt after) we got our own from 1910. Cheers - Garrett.

57000 sales equates to a massive amount of fees for ebay. Disgrace? Yes. Surprise? No.