Chris Perkins

A few of the Olympic coins are worth a couple of quid, even in used condition. There is also the odd £2 and £1 worth (consistently) more than face value, and no one really seems to care much about condition in the world of decimal collectors! Get my book, all the answers are there Matt... https://www.amazon.co.uk/Collectors-Coins-Decimal-Issues-Kingdom/dp/0948964782/ref=as_sl_pc_qf_sp_asin_til?tag=predecimalcoi-21&linkCode=w00&linkId=&creativeASIN=0948964782

Do you know what range of IP addresses you get assigned from your home connection?

How are things now everyone? There were some IP addresses being blocked. They seem to have been added automatically, so I've removed them all now (and that were spammers have probably long since moved on to spamming somewhere else).

The 1983 one is quite sought after, the rest are a bit slow (unless quite cheap). They are essentially a Royal Mint sales gimmick - making a coin twice as thick. It works when they're new, but 2nd hand they are generally slow unless priced just a little more than the normal silver proof versions (which are normally around £15 I think).

The 403 errors should no longer happen.

All upgraded now. How is it? If 403's still happen I need to know and IP address of someone that experienced it and the exact time it happened so that we can check the logs. The hosts say it sounds like a false positive with one of the firewalls.

I've upgraded the forum, how is it now?

Hmmm. I've just notified the website host man to see if he can shed any light.

Yes, but as jacinbox was first to register an interest, can we see what he says first?

£50 inc recorded postage is fine by me.

Thanks Colin. So £50 then jacinbox? Lots of lustre, well worth that I think (and if you disagree you can return it).

Oh yes, I'm with you now!

It does read like 25p but I think he meant .25 of a pee. 0.0025.

Yes, that bit needs changing doesn't it! OMG.

I was hoping for more than face, if I'm honest.

Not bad is it. It's for sale of course. What's fair?

I always make a point of putting 1953 farthings aside to check properly later. And discovered this one today. A 2+A in high grade with good lustre. Loss of lustre on the high parts, old finger print traces on rev. I bet PCGS would call it MS something RB. It's GEF though, surely. Sorry about the quick phone pics.

Ok. I can't remember how long I had that. Big coincidence that I'd found it a couple of days before you posted this topic.

As the potential seller here I'll be honest and say that GV (normal dates) aren't really that hot at the moment. That isn't to say they won't be at some point in the future and I'd say that the highest possible grades are not only the best to buy (they won't be making any more) for reasons previously covered, but they are also much easier to sell should you need to. It won't always mean a profit in 10+ years, but they will at least be easy to move on and if bought carefully I think in the event of a loss it will be very minimal. Just buy what you like the look of and if you receive something that you are not comfortable with, send it back. Any half decent dealer will take things back without taking offence.

No coin dealer would react badly if you were to write and make an offer on something, that's usually the way things are sold in a live environment, so I don't see why it should be different online. A lot of my coins sell quite quickly, but for those that have been sitting for a while I'd gladly accept a reasonable offer. Which one do you mean?

I wonder if they're selling the ones that people have returned (which may not be entirely legal as they are 2nd hand)? I've got a £50 coin that I had to buy in order to do pics for the book. No one will even give me £43 for it now. I'll see if I can send it back the RM.

It should show the images, but saying that I'm not quite sure how it works on a kindle with a non-colour display like those paperwhite ones.

I've got one of those, chanced upon it the other day. It's 1/2lb and '13 Wellgate Dundee 1876' on the other side. £5 and it's yours (inc post).

Yes, that's fine by me. Perhaps show and tell and then the topic closed to further comments even?

There have certainly been coins in the past that were advertised with a fixed mintage limit and that limit was later raised, I assume because the particular coin was selling better than anticipated.