Chris Perkins

I'll remove the link but leave this here for fun, moved to another area and closed. The Chinese do seen very busy making fakes of everything at the moment!

First one is a jeton (French counting token, they often turn up in fields). The threepence does indeed look very silvery, but do I notice signs of yellowy brass coming through, as if it were plated in a silver metal?

Noted. I'll change it.

The US coin is .900 gold which is a wierd sort of decimal fineness of exactly 90% (as used in Germany and other European countries). It's somewhere between 21 and 22 carat. British gold is spot on 22 carat which is actually .916 fine (91.66666666667%).

I think 1840/50s, but possibly later. They often had an incorrect legend on the reverse, or the makers name. Sometimes they had the right lettering but an impossible date.

It's a brass gaming token surely? A very corroded one. Victorian, made to look like a Guinea. A weight check will reveal that it's not gold (and the corrosion pretty much proves it too). It's pretty worthless.

What's the average age of a Pokemon card collector?!

No, he wasn't. My sources tell me he'd sold it before for £370 and had it returned as a dodgy coin with a tooled '5'. He refunded the buyer then waited and has now listed it again. The original buyer and others have sent ebay messages to him, but last I saw it was still listed and still fraudelently described as a 1905. It is in fact a 1907.

Yes £10 is about right. Being small they always look a bit weak, even in EF. That one is probably VF.

That's a Maundy penny.

I have a feeling that Spink will probably turn their noses up at it! That seems to often be the trend with 'cheap' coins. I expect their costs in Bloomsbury are pretty high so they naturally will want to concentrate on expensive items/collections etc. Maybe we'll be surprised. So it was a 1926 Modified Effigy coin was it? That would be worth around £30 in average condition, but most 1926 coins are very common. And like I always say to people..... Don't think that ebay is the be all and end all for selling coins. Often I've bought coins or offered to buy coins for more than they have sold on ebay.

As an unlisted variety it's all down to what someone would pay for it.

All silver threepences are silver (because they stopped making them in 1944/45). For all the other silver coins, only those that are dated 1946 or earlier contain silver. 1947 onwards are a copper and nickel alloy (same as new 'silver' coins).

I'd scrap 'em. There isn't enough time in the world to list each average 3d individually. I'd offer 10x face value for 1920 - 1946 and 20x face value for pre 1920. The modern decimal face value of a 3d is 1.25p (6d = 2.5p, Shilling = 5p, Florin = 10p, Half Crown = 12.5p).

Well if you paid £80 for it from that certain gentleman in Notting Hill, then I do need to make sure that price goes up a bit in the next edition! I don't see how a population figure can make it worth £200 when they have only graded 7 of them!

Hmmm. It's not that rare is it, but perhaps my BU price is a little low. What does UNC80 equate to on the Sheldon scale? UNC80 can't mean BU can it? And who's price is £200. Is that would they estimate it would sell for? Is that what they would pay for it?

Then you're mad! Take the money and run, tomorrow is another day.

I sold one for £720 so it was probably me! Recently I have a buyer at £650, so I'd buy for £550.00. That's a fair deal and I'm really quick.

With Ebay though you can never really tell for sure if the sales go through. But, ok, £550. How does that sound? Instant cash upon receipt.

I currently pay £450 for them.

I've put that in the ebay thread! Looks a bit ole dodgy to me. Could be a forgery, I wouldn't want it. It was over £100 earlier and now it's gone down to £25....perhaps the bidders saw the other thread!

Non coin people would probably see your library list and shout: Pot, kettle. Kettle, pot! ;-) I think that Davies is available new. At least mine looks pretty new and I seem to remember buying it new. It's a first edition and was printed in 1982 (re-printed?).

Me too, it's a complete load of tosh without exception! I think I've aired that opinion often enough. Essentially they are not coins, they have become medals. 'Coins' made off-metal on purpose with no intention of them ever being circulated as money. Stupid designs commemorating stupid things that are not worthy of being commemorated.....and that no one really cares about (especially on the 50p - I repeat: 'what a load of tosh'). And they are specially packed in little box with a numbered certificate that might as well say 'Well done on buying this novelty medal, it'll never be worth anything like what you paid for it'. To summarise: More Tosh than a 1990s episode of The Bill!

I think that even if they did do away with F, VF, etc prefixes and just used numbers that someone somewhere would translate them to what they are on the usual F, VF etc scale (they'd probably have to translate the numbers for people themselves). People are simply very used to the established scale and with everything else that isn't slabbed being graded using said established scale it's silly to start grading things using just numbers. We need our F, VF, EF, UNC!

And talking of rare pennies, I have an 1849 winging it's way to me as we speak. Looks around Fine.