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blakeyboy
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and again-how do I attach something so it is on the page, not zooming into a 'downloaded' file?
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Got a reply from Pitney Bowes, the US agent who deal with some Ebay sales,
after I pointed out the 5% import tax on coins, and the near on 25% I'd been charged.
The seller's shipping charge was on top, and appears from this that it's the charge to ship
the item to the shipping agent????
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I took apart an old disc drive, and got the curved neodymium magnet out.
Sliding a coin down it at about 45˚ really shows up sterling silver from other alloys.
Only pure copper comes close.
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I just paid $30 import on a $125 coin.
I've written to Pitney Bowes, who PayPal paid,
asking for information on the calculation,
and I'll let you know what happens....
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I chickened out maybe 8 years ago- one in a nice VF went on Ebay for £450....I'm still annoyed.
Mind you, the winning bidder could have left £1000 on it, so who knows......
(Even a rough one would be enough to fill that gap...)
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If anyone has a spare one, I'd love one.
I've virtually given up finding one by the usual routes.
Anything considered- still needing the last of the main 1874 types after all these years is driving me mad.
I have some spare 1874H F69's if some one wants one..
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Oh thank you so much for that.
Best laugh at Bay for ages.
Genuinely surreal......
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Hope this attachment has worked- first time....
Descent grade?
That means go down a grade- perhaps by being held in fingers.....!
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I went to a good school- it was approved.....
It was rough, though- the only one in our area with it's own Coroner...
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They told me to get out more.
I did that, and they told me to stay in more.
My teacher says I'm special- that's a good thing, right?
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Ok- you buy a coin you like.
When you want to look at it, you look at it.
It may be worth more than you paid for it, maybe not.
Maybe you just like having it.
Sometimes, of course, the finding was more fun than the owning.....
Maybe you'll sell it one day.
The new owner can see it, and decide what to pay for it.
Like you did.......
Now, will anyone please tell me why you want someone else to look at it for a ridiculous fee?
And charge you to look at a picture of it on line????????
Emperor's new clothes. A ridiculous system preying on people's insecurities.
I will NEVER have something slabbed. Ever.
If the system was PERFECT, it would still be pointless.....
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Oh I'm jealous- the F76 is the one I crave.
My F69 was off ebay- gambling on a bad picture -a £16 pile of pennies.
A bit better condition than the £255 one on Bay last week.
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That makes sense, except original mintage figures are for coins minted that year,
not dated with that year, surely, so they smudge into the dates either side- hence my point.
Thus the pool of coins in circulation never reflected the original mintage figures exactly.
I can see how the selective removal or collecting of nice or rare examples has influenced things,
much more than the chance finds stuck in an old piece of furniture, for example,
but often, like me seeing way more 1875h in F condition than the equivalent 1875 F79....?
I agree with the 1874h F76- in fact Michael upped it to R9.
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Is it just me, but are the standard accepted rarity ratings sometimes surprising?
I feel the 1860 F17 is more common than Gouby R6,
the 1867 F53 is way more rare than N3,
the 1874H F76 is more common than R8 ( Michael used to say R7, but uprated it )
the 1875 F79 is way rarer than R5,
and the 1875H is more common than R5.
What do you guys think?
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On 25/01/2018 at 0:44 PM, Unwilling Numismatist said:It certainly looks "ok" (I wouldn't peronally want it though) - I've been looking at 1887 crowns for months aiming for the right one (bidding for a bragain of good quality), and the think I'd say most about these is that if you can see both sides of the chest straps you're probably as close to mint as you can get - in this one only 1 side is visible.
In a world where everyone has a camera on their phones, I find it impossible people are unable to photograph coins for ebay without getting them blurry (or take that as they're blurry because the item for sale is crap).
As for some clarity on what isn't a good one ...
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1887-CROWN-VICTORIA/183034951765?hash=item2a9dbbb855:g:WBAAAOSwXOVaaGsq
This is so bad I laughed!
Ohhhh....chest straps on St.George!!!!!
And there was me thinking you meant Victoria.....
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Field walker's 'Pontefract' ( made of liquorice) is also moving.
I can see the rare 50p's and pound coins being discussed in many pubs,
so people blindly bid on crap, but this??
" 'Ere Dave- you sold your motor?"
"Yeah, I decided to move into Royalist Siege Money, wot the blokes in the gym was going' on abaat"
Can't see it, myself.....
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A subtle but excellent distinction!
i was in a pub, last year I think, and all the beer was unfamiliar to me.
The barman asked what I liked in a beer, and chose me one, and described it perfectly.
I told him that I'd bought many pints in my life, but I'd never been sold one before......!
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I know they usually only have Krause, but really??
I repeatedly reported the Premier coin one, and when I contacted their 'expert' all I got was abuse.
They just hope that no-one knows enough and will spend hundreds on a ten pound coin.....
1897 Penny Great Britain - High Sea Level Variety - KM# 790 | eBay-2.webloc
1897 Penny Great Britain - High Sea Level Variety - KM# 790 | eBay.webloc
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I mulled over the name 'coinbuyer555' for a while then mentioned him my wife....click...
Some time ago he Neg Feedbacked her on Ebay over a clearly photographed coin that she was selling for me.
The usual clearout. The fault on the coin he moaned about was clearly visible in the picture.
He moaned, we raised our eyebrows, she offered him a refund three times- no reply,
just a negative feedback. She was very upset and we blocked him.
It was like he thought hope altered reality, and what he could see didn't really exist.
We thought at the time that he was just one of those people who like to 'wield power',
and be spiteful when given half a chance.
I've got to the top of my business, and my advice to trainees is this:
To raise yourself above others around you, you can go round knocking them down one at a time,
a very laborious process, and you don't look good at the end or made any friends you may well need in the future,
or,
you stand on a chair.
I chose the latter. You just keep your head down and work hard, and never stop learning, and keep all colleagues
and rivals on-side and friendly. That works.
Basically, if you want to be Somebody, go and become just that. Slowly.
Pretending you are Somebody from the beginning and thinking you are some sort of God never ever works in the long term.
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Hello there
I have about 20-30 kg of the sort of stuff that was in your pocket in the 1960's.
No, not that, I mean bronze coinage.
I have been an avid Victorian variety finder for years, and have a nice 20th Century folder, but all these new 20th Century micro varieties
are a bit of a grey area. The tub of coins is at my blacksmiths- he wants to make something artistic with them.
Before he does this, would anyone out there want to trawl the lot for any of the new varieties that have come to light over the last few years?
I know the pile has no obvious useful value coins in it, but as regards new varieties, it is totally unsearched.
( I wish my spelchek didn't keep putting 'unstarched'...)
Now I know that the word 'unsearched' on fleabay is often cause for hilarity, but in this case it's true...
I'm near Milton Keynes.
Regards
Blake
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What I had was a text clipping- a highlighted section from an email....