blakeyboy
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I still think the 1875h is very overvalued- it's not as rare as it's 'mintage' figures suggest, in my book.
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I laughed so much at the cheek of it I ignored our 'Ebay's worst offerings' section and put it here!
My wife has suggested they change their name to "The Dunning-Kruger Coin Company"....
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On 2/29/2024 at 4:01 PM, SilverAge3 said:
It's bc they got the UC designation, in addition to being very choice gem. I haven't looked at census reports for that specifically, but imagine it's quite uncommon. I'm not all that surprised, tbh. Prices on such are showing no sign of slowing or reversing.
edit: so i looked up the penny census on ngc, there's only a single pr67uc, only other uc designation is several grades down at 64. It's no surprise people fought over that. I'm guessing the halfpenny and farthing are similar, and pcgs likely also has few, if any deep cam. I have a pr66cam penny, which is still among the better of graded examples, I'm content with it, certainly not able to go to war for that one sold on heritage, lol, and even the 67 cams likely would be hefty prices i could spend on getting pennies i'm missing.
It's all so moronic and designed for rich gullible twats with more money than sense.
The giveaway for me, and a main indication of why I won't take notice of this crap is that in the 1952 penny row it has a 'shop now' button.
as if you can find one on Ebay!!! The morons who run this site can't see that this is just really sloppy....
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A fiver. Out of that came the postage, and Ebay's fees. We were left with about £1.80. I was expecting £25+.
I have the remains of three pre-WW2 albums, and I'm trying to shift them.
I put 20 lots on, all at a fiver start, and only two had bids.
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Here's a good one: a man goes on Ebay and buys this for too much money:
He then immediately puts it back on Ebay:
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I've been trying to sell a pile of stamps I inherited, and the prices on rare stuff are strong, but the average stuff is worth nothing,
Are coins going that way, where anything not top quality or very rare will slump in value, since the rich boys aren't interested?
Here is an example: A pile of old Australian stamps that I would have been _so_ pleased to have been given when I collected as a child.
Low quality pics but it gives you an idea of age - lots of old Victorian States stamps in there too.
Have a guess what they fetched:
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Rob, you just did this forum section's 100,000th posting....
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When my Uncle was very old, we covered him in grease.
He went downhill pretty quickly after that.
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Neither of those offerings is F148.
If purchased, the seller gets the wrath of the buyer when the true value of the coin is known,
not the grading company, so this is just laziness on the seller's part, so they deserve all they get.
I love the pricing disparity as well!
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On 2/1/2024 at 9:59 AM, richtips86 said:
The Royal Mint has now released the mintages for the strike your own coins for 2019, which means we aren’t far from 2020 figures.
Make what you will of it of regarding the politics, design of the coin, business model of the Mint, but there are two strike your owns for the Brexit 50p. Those done for two weeks in February and one for 31/01/20 - random Friday not in school holidays.
The Harry and Meghan wedding coin (for one day only) had a mintage of 508 whilst the Snowman 50p had a mintage of 700 and ran throughout December! Both attract decent sale prices on the Bay!
I’m guessing when the Brexit 50p mintage figure is announced we’ll have similarly pretty low figures! You can currently pick them up for between £15 and £25.
DYOR
Am I on drugs?
I cannot make any sense of this - have I had a stroke? Harry and Meghan coins?
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I showed my wife and she wants a pair!!!!
New product for you there....
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Whoops- bleeding spelchek - 'coming out of covid'
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We've just been let down by our 4th contractor in a row.
We need an insulated metal roof and insulated green corrugated walls for our Village Hall in Worcestershire.
We've had:
Too busy coming out of cover, and not his area.
A 6-figure quote, site unseen, hoping we were idiots,
Then very keen but heart trouble, into Papworth, then silence,
now we've just had the got to start another job, can't wait any more to start ( wheels have ground slowly)
Anyone on here have any contacts or ideas?
We've lost 3 years so far, and got nowhere - rather annoying, and I want it done before I'm too bloody old!
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I’ve ordered the skip for Tuesday.
I have the tough rubble sacks.
Then, on Wednesday, when I can’t see the front door for Valentine’s cards,
I can bag them up, drag them upstairs, and throw the bags out of the bedroom window,
straight into the skip.
Last year I didn’t think it through, and was stuck in the house for a week.
You must know what I’m talking about….:-)-
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2 hours ago, secret santa said:
And this guy is making a lot of money selling them:
This 1849 would fool me- how can you tell is a wrong 'un?
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Any ideas what this refers to?
Looks Edwardian in style to me...
About 4 inches by 2 1/2 inches.
I've drawn a blank....
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Interesting drawing- well, maybe interesting to some....
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Since the gold used isn't pure, this is surely a eutectic situation, so you are even more correct?
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6 hours ago, Coinery said:
In the very, very, beginning I used to use olive oil, until I discovered it wasn’t benign at all. Olive oil is actually a weak acid, apparently characterised by an acidity between 1-2%.
Just taking a quick Look at fingerprint oil, it looks to be 95-99% water and measuring anything up to 5 on the PH scale, which I read makes it comparable to black coffee.
Needless to say I had an anxious few weeks decontaminating all my coins with acetone and sealing them back up again in airtight coin flips!To be honest, though, I don’t think the dry, ambient air of modern households would notably tone a coin more after decontamination with acetone, than it would before, but everyone to their own experience and views on this, I do however choose to keep mine in flips anyway.
Yes, hurried sloppy mistake.
I work with recording studio mixing consoles that are changing hands at £300k plus at the moment,
and are full of silver plated brass switch contacts.
A $12 can of 'switch cleaner" will do £40k of damage to those contacts.
Properly thought through "Switch Lubricant" is another matter....
Try Electrolube EML.
It was specced for pro use in the 1970's, and still works, for _minuscule_ layer of protective oil.
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I lost count of the times I emailed Torr coins to tell them to stop hanging their coins in photos on Ebay....
Acetone can leave a coin 'too clean', and the atmosphere loves that...the TINIEST amount of a benign oil,
olive, EML switch lube, etc etc and I mean the TINIEST bit, keeps things stable.
Put a speck on a small clean brush and apply like that - _no_ rubbing!
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It's time for may favourite:
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11 hours ago, secret santa said:
...so long as you've got your elf......
Merry Xmas everybody!
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All right, I've resisted up till now, but I give up......what's a stamp corner?
I have thousands of stamps, but no 'stamp corners'.
Are they like a Müller Fruit Corner?
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4 hours ago, Paddy said:
Yes, I have just had a similar message from Tim. I have replied thanking him for taking the comments in good heart and reacting accordingly.
Same here.
Makes a pleasant change!!
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Anyone know the Lumix DMC-GF2 camera?
in Nothing whatsoever to do with coins area!
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Yes i know it's old hat and worthless, but I don't have a reasonable camera, and I've just inherited a GF2, with a 14mm lens and a 14-42 lens.
I'm hoping, because I think I can turn everything off, that I can do par focal down-the-eypeice shots with a telescope- my crappy auto camera
takes pictures of the telescope....:-)
I would like to try taking pictures of coins with the GF2, but the only macro lenses I can see seem very expensive- is there a simple screw- in lens
available to fit on one of the two lenses I have?