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Just had a polite thank you note from the genuine seller, which is kind of him.

1903 open 3 Ebay £2.81 inc postage.

Well done Paddy it's been taken down....record time too!!!

I have reported to Ebay as a Fraudulent sale and also messaged the genuine seller to let him know what is going on. I hope he takes action and that may resolve the problem.

F98 narrow date 1879 Ebay £110 inc postage

1860 early beaded pattern F763 Ebay £17.50

These pennies have actually come my way over the last few months, mostly on Ebay, I have given prices to show that there are still (in my opinion) good buys out there! 1893/2 £42

I can say its a definite Obverse 7 as its the older portrait of Victoria and the gap between Victorias head and the out edge of the coin is large, on the 6 its quite close

Freeman 72, Paddy - 7 + H. The neck can be deceptive on worn coins.

Well done Jerrry - especially the F98, which seem to be incredibly difficult to get in high grade. Sone really nice buys there.

It looks like a Gouby K+Ja a Variety of the Freeman 7+h

Nasty finger dislocation too, looks painful

I had a chat with my local Computer expert and it seems we have Google to blame, not Ebay. All the ad space on Ebay is handled by Google Adsense and Ebay have no control over what appears there. Adsense is the system that detects your browser history and tries to put up ads relevant to you. Often you get caught out clicking on an apparently empty area of screen and trigger the Ad that is still loading to that space - hence a pop-up or redirect to another webpage. Google do very little checking on who rents space through them, so it may be a genuine and innocuous ad, or, in the worst case, a site that is attempting to install malware on your computer. Hence why it is insane to go on the web without good antivirus and anti malware installed. Adguard and similar things will block 90% or more, but nothing is fool proof. Perversely you will get les ads if you use Google Chrome instead of Microsoft IE as your browser - not sure if this is because Chrome is better at detecting malware sites, or if Google is deliberately down-rating the IE experience... It's a jungle out there!

Agreed I am still drooling

HAT OFF Jerry some fantastic buys and makes all the time spent looking worthwhile

And finally for now a nice F28 from Dave Craddock, £470, nowhere nice as Richards recent one, but a decent upgrade.

1898 8 bisects Ebay £17.76

1926 ME Ebay £570.55

That's a very good call.I was working through alphabetically and I've only just got past Bangla. Kaithi fits side two very well but I think that we may be looking at two languages on this piece

I know what you mean, Des, especially the Edwards! The problem with single coin lots from the states is the postage and parcel force handling fee which is fixed, plus of course the US coins seem to be selling far and away above normal prices. The fees are the reason I bought an extra fixed price coin from the Davissons’ list to go with my auction lot, just to halve the extra costs between them. I’m thinking I might have to look at a buy-one-to-sell strategy with my US purchases. Interestingly the regular grade material seems sensible, so an occasional snipe is possible to offset the charges on your collection purchases...he says with fingers crossed🤞

Perhaps your site has been mentioned on a Russian forum. What numbers are we talking about? From sunny Vladivostok. Not. Jerry 😉

On 2018-04-05 at 11:41 AM, hibernianscribe said: Yes, absolutely, and this piece was gilded before the plate was cut as the edges do show - there is no doubt about this. However, I am excited about the gilt since I am surmising whether this was a piece from the "two guilt wine bowles" that are documented as being part of the "Plate delivered to Mr Edward Standishe, Alderman, by consent to be sold for the townes use and to supply their p'sent want of money...." (quoted from the minutes of a meeting of the (Newark) Corporation held on May 15, 1646 and detailed in, "The Obsidional Money of the Great Rebellion", 1907, Philip Nelson, M.D.) Obviously it is very possible that other gilt plates might have been used as well but this reference is specific right down to the fact that two gold-plated wine bowls were cut up to literally, make money. This is why I find this series so interesting - there is a tangible link with particular people caught up in a bloody struggle. Frank Hi Frank, I can't make out from the photo of your Newark siege piece any sign of plate markings, which often accompany these 1646 gilt ninepences. I found three other examples with the same obverse die, that are illustrated in sale catalogues. HIRD, LOT 265- GLENS 1974 NOBLE, LOT 690- GLENS1975 WHEELER, LOT 407- SOTHEBY 1930 Thellusson in the Sotheby sale of 1931, lot 248 describes a Newark nine pence also cut from a gilt plate but lacks an image.

Really bad looking thing. Hideous! http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/King-Charles-1st-silver-hammered-Three-Pence-Coin-Very-Rare-Collectable/173267725529

Something's gone wrong (for me) in the Copper Tokens thread, so I will post this newbie here, seeing as it's a penny ... 1796 Birmingham copper penny token by Thomas Wyon