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  1. Posted

    20 hours ago, The Bee said:

    If I find any tickets that have a number / surname on I will share them

     

    Bear in mind that the handwriting can help identify a ticket, which can still be useful. Either to link a number of coins to a common owner, or if some provenance is known back to an earlier collection ..

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    Not sure this is quite the right place, although tickets are involved! I just wondered if any of the members remember William Whelan? Dealer based in central London, I suspect 1980s - 2010ish (his premises have been an Italian restaurant since 2014). 

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    Nice envelope. And two tickets, though I have no idea whether either is in Mr Whelan's hand or were from when he picked up the items they describe.

    Anyone able to help please? Thanks!

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  7. Posted

    I know nothing about these things at all (and have no real interest in bitcoin). But I seem to remember that bitcoins need generating and there used to be a complaint (possibly false) that the power needed to do so was increasing, to the extent that the drain on resources and heat produced by the process was noticable.

    In an era where we are slightly more aware of the environmental impact of our (global) actions, is this not a risk to the future of such things? At some point will governments start to restrict mining because it's having an effect on national environmental policies?

    Just curious. 

  8. Posted

    1 hour ago, blakeyboy said:

    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.

    I've still got my Dad's collection. A lot of FDCs that will probably raise a few pennies each if that. EII, mostly mint, which will likely do similarly poorly. I hate to think what he spent on them all.

    Only thing that might be of interest now is some early Ukraine/ Russia/ Poland which might be worth something, particularly at the moment. But I have no idea about any of those and I can't read any of the catalogues he had as they're in Polish. I guess I'll look into it one day.. 😕

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  10. Posted

    The main problem I have is finding things like the Numismatic Chronicle from the 1850s in paper form.  Modern reprints are better than the old OCR scanned stuff, but they still seem to mess up the illustrations (which are generally an essential part of what I need).

    I could probably afford an original copy if I could find one (the BNJ from 1905 only cost me £30) but I've not found anyone selling. Of course, what I'd really like is offprints to save on shelf space. But the number of sellers of such material isn't great and I suspect a lot of stuff is just shredded. 

    pdfs are great for searching for specific terms. But paper is still king for me.

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  11. Posted

    16 hours ago, Coinery said:

    Does anyone know what’s happened to the amazing resource that was Rob Page’s Henry III website? I believe he was Surrey Coins, but not sure?

    The H***y3.com website now appears to be an asian p@rn link (wouldn’t let me use the actual word).

    Appears it might have last been properly captured August 2020 according to the wayback machine ..

    https://web.archive.org/web/20200804172606/http://www.henry3.com/

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  15. Posted

    Tim Owen is still dealing. I messaged him the other day and he said he largely sells to other dealers at coin fairs. So he may have sold to Steve Hill who then passed it on to CC, but hard to tell if there are no clues on the tickets.

    Tim's tickets seem to come up fairly frequently and generally on decent pieces. Again, Rob is likely to know how long he's been dealing. More than 20 years at least, surely.

    Oh, and Gary has updated the article. This (I believe) is the latest (#11) Additional Coin Tickets Version 11

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  17. Posted

    Was the first a large auction house? I'm bemused by the need to register with auctionet afterwards. How difficult is it to have someone take card payments over the phone, particularly as you presumably were able to bid without doing so? Sounds overly complicated!

     

    16 hours ago, Menger said:

    Buyer’s premium is a misnomer as it is paid by the vendor.  Vendors need to consider BP carefully to assess whether it correctly represents value added by the auction house. Buyers can be indifferent as they don’t pay it anyhows. 

    ?? Surely, buyer's premium is added to the hammer cost. So it's something that I do have to pay (plus vat) as a buyer. And take into consideration when bidding.
    I also bear it in mind when reviewing what level of 'service' I feel I've received, such as speed and cost of dispatch and the level of care taken to safely package my purchases. That the seller might not get as much because everyone is adjusting their bids down by 30% is of course also an issue.

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  18. Posted

    Hi Erika. Best that can be done regarding ID is Spink 2799, Sharp G1/2. When it was new it would have looked a bit like the one shown below.
    The privy mark is impossible to make out so it could date from anywhere between 4 Jul 1639 and 28 May 1643. It was struck in (the Tower of) London.

    As to value, that's all in the ladle. The coin's not worth removing as it has little intrinsic value on it's own, due to wear. Hope that helps!

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  22. Posted

    I must be getting old but I just don't get it. It says MS68. What the hell does that mean? It's a shiny disk, but it's not currency (as we know it Jim). Why does it need grading? If they wanted they could just say 'Genuine' but I feel that the whole grading-things-that-don't-merit-grading just makes the TPGS thing even more ridiculous than it already was.

    I can see the point in things that might circulate. Like trading cards, banknotes or comics. But this is like grading the box the trading cards come in! The metal disk has no significance beyond what it holds .. except perhaps to a museum as a curiosity. It's just daft IMHO. Or maybe it's just me?

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  25. Posted

    18 hours ago, Rob said:

    Not sure what the 2h refers to. It's nothing to do with Brooke which would have been appropriate for 1946. After that you are into BCW territory. Nothing in IDB's BNJ vol. 28 article helps.

    I think those images help, as the 9, H & E are of a different style. That might mean this is a G S Hopkins ticket from Baldwin's 30. Anyone with a known G S Hopkins ticket?

    From Gary's bit on the BNS site @Rob.. I could believe it's the same hand ..

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