TomGoodheart

Yes. Rather excessive I think. But then I only use the site for reference too look up designs/ specifications. I've never actually thought of joining myself. And given the T&C doubt that I would. I rather agree with you Christof. Firstly I'd be none to happy giving someone rights to private messages (rather a misnomer if Colnect can do as they wish with them!) and secondly while I'd have no real problems with casual use of images I create, this appears to give them the right to re-use them. Possibly for financial gain, although that part isn't clear.

And ... here's the result: Not quite as bad as one might imagine from the description! My Father-in-Law sometimes asks why I don't visit more museums as 'surely they have the best coin collections'? Despite my explaining that museums seem to have different aims and often end up with a random selection of donated items they want to look nice, rather than a proper collection that can be used for study and comparison, I'm not sure he gets it ...

Every now and then I'll see a Saxon or Plantagenet one that takes my fancy. But then I think .. nah. I'd rather have a shilling. Beatus, qui est felis plena sixpences.

There you go Rob. I corrected it for you!

But I only do a very limited number of things with my pc. Not much point paying for stuff I don't need. As for building my own, well I'm only a little more literate than Rob. I found Linux Lite the most frustrating experience and just impossible to use. And I'm lazy. I just want something that looks and works in a familiar way straight out the box. There's no way I'd know how to choose a bespoke system let alone assemble one. I sympathise with Rob. It's a pain in the arse when a supposed 'update' is simply a way of adding toolbars, changing your search engine preference and generally mucking up what you have gotten used to. Designers seem to give you all the bells and whistles of movie players and music centres and more whether you want them or not. All I want is to search the internet quickly, store photos and a few basic text files and send emails. The facility to hibernate my laptop so when I open the lid all the pages and tabs I was looking at yesterday are still there is my highest priority. Next is to be able to make my desktop look pretty and just how I want it. That's it really ...

My main problem is that (apart from minor experience with iTunes and iPods which seem to do exactly as they please, whether that's what you want or not) an equivalent Apple laptop to my Toshiba would cost me about twice what I paid. I've not had any problems with what I have and it works the way I want it to. I just can't see the point in paying more for something that doesn't appear to do anything more. *shrug*

Gives you a seller's name, price and date to add to the records. That'll do!

"investment potential" suggests it will go up in price. Personally I just can't get that excited about modern coins, so it'll be interesting to see if it does ...

Sadly the big ding made it much easier to spot!

Good eyesight Scott!

Online? In most instances I doubt there's much that can be found much prior to 1999 ish without a good deal of effort. Christies have a few Spink sales archived back to then. I don't know how far back CoinArchives professional goes. But at $600 subscription it's not really relevant to me! Most of my provenances have relied on catalogues or tickets. My furthest back is to 1920, which by chance I spotted in the British Numismatic Journal (which are scanned back to 1903) and with Rob's help was then traced to a sale in 1913. When the coin was listed by Mark Rasmussen no provenance was mentioned, so I got lucky to recognise it.

Yes. If you later receive it then it would be honest to return the refund to the seller. They will have fulfilled their part of the contract between you by supplying the goods and so payment is still due. And there will be no harm in letting them know that you are still keen to have the coin if they receive it because it was lost or undelivered. However, since you've been refunded, I imagine the agreement between you can effectively been considered to have been cancelled and so you rely on their honesty and goodwill to finalise the deal. The risk of course is that they had second thoughts after the sale and decided not to post it.

Maybe David will know. Reminds me of the Swiss Republic.

Don't know about pdf. You've seen the archive listing I presume? http://www.dnw.co.uk/auction-archive/catalogue-archive/lot.php?department=Coins&lot_id=54025 And Alistair Mackay has a paper catalogue for Oct 2003 with prices: http://www.coinmac.com/Numismatic_Books-utf8.html Maybe call him to check it's the right one first. Personally I prefer my library to be actual catalogues rather than virtual!

Baldwins aren't cheap. But also they appear still (as used to be the case with all the major dealers AFAIK) happy to hold onto coins for years. The Brussels hoard was held for, what, a century before parts were put up for sale? Eventually I guess the market will catch up with their prices. Possibly sooner than later, given that finer examples seem to be going for way over list, or even what might have been expected a year or two ago.

If you're lucky your coin will be a type only collected by a certain number of individuals, come with some sort of information, such as a previous collector's ticket or an idea of when it was bought by the previous owner. That way you can narrow it down a bit. Or if it is a particularly rare type then the number of examples will be small and occasions when one was sold hopefully noted. Recent sales can be searched via the internet as Accumulator says. Add CoinArchives.com, mcsearch's sister site acsearch and of course auction houses own archive of catalogues to those mentioned, though few web resources will go back much more than 15 years. If you're lucky a member here might recognise a coin if you post a photo. Otherwise, a good supply of auction and dealer catalogues, plenty of coffee and patience might be your only option. Hammered are easier than milled coins if you have catalogues that are illustrated due to each being unique. Unfortunately the further back you go, the less coins tended to be illustrated and even ones we would now consider to be really nice examples, or to be quite rare, were often not shown in catalogues or were sold with others as part of a mixed lot with minimal description.

Looks quite decent Patrick, but as Peck says, bigger photos would help. And you might like to consider if you just want people to send you an offer by a message or if you want to suggest a price?

Hmm.. apparently the Russians have different ideas. Protesters declare Donetsk 'republic'

Thanks guys.

310917105657 Looks a bit odd, but like you, it's not a familiar enough series for me to say if it's any more than just a weak strike.

Anyone go? Any good? Well attended? And how were the prices? Or ... was there a decent café? Any opinions, views or info welcome!

I've not seen that before. Interesting coin Patrick. What was the purpose of the A may I ask?

This is sad. Someone paid £150 for it and Westminster couldn't even get the years of issue correct on the COA? 221406996553 For shame.

Quite. Many of the rarities in my collection have been obtained privately when better grade examples have become available. The collector has had an opportunity to upgrade and I have obtained a coin I did not previously have, in many cases with provenance which, though not of particular benefit is something which I enjoy about a coin. Win, win, all for the minor inconvenience of always trying to have some ready funds, well .. ready! Perhaps I should change my tagline back to "Rare Charles I shillings wanted cheap!"?

The fact that you can clearly see the mark WRL (Westair Replicas Limited) on the reverse means that it's original and worth well in excess of £0.50!! Well done to your friend on this amazing find! Usually people have to visit a souvenir shop to obtain such rarities. Joke. It's a modern 'white metal' copy. Sorry.