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Yes I have, Colin! The shop is the only part that is even close to ready though. It tends to be squeezed in right at the end of the day when I have done everything else...

They can't argue with you Rob, really! Proof buyers buy for the perfection of it all...

Very nice, Brandon. Nice to see coins that are coin-coloured too!

...superb

It is good yes - it looks like a PrestaShop template - have a look at Colin Goode's header on his site and you'll see the parallels. My prototype shop uses it too, but you mustn't look yet because it's not really ready...

My Desktop is always ridiculously busy.... just now: 2 Explorer windows : coin photos folder and coin literature folder Chrome with 11 open tabs: - BBC Weather (so I can see if I can skive gardening this morning) - Gmail inbox - Twitter - My website's backoffice - Predecimal unread posts - This conversation - the interesting JNCoins 1860 penny conversation - thesaleroom.com - PayPal - eBay - and I'm keeping an eye on Kharkov in the Ukraine, because I'm not entirely one-dimensional! 2 Excel spreadsheets Firefox with 4 open tabs - my snipe engine - my Watch List - Ending Soonest - Tony Clayton (if you use two browsers, eBay doesn't notice that you're signed in as two IDs on the same computer, so I can be a seller on Chrome, and be logged in under my buying ID in FireFox) 2 test files in Notepad - eBay blacklist - some HTML I'm working on Turbo Lister Adobe Reader with Bramah in it. and that's a fairly quiet start to the morning!

Sorry Peck! I always have an eBay tab open anyway, so I kind of assumed everyone works like me. Not the case, of course. For me it would be: 1. move mouse to beginning of eBay item number, drag through to end and then click Ctrl-C to copy 2. switch to ebay tab that is already there 3. click in eBay Search field, then key Ctrl-V to paste eBay item number and hit Enter

can you not Copy and Paste, Peck?

Welcome aboard Arthur! I have no idea about the Straits coin - unless it is a serious rarity then grade probably consigns it to curiosity value. Somebody here will know though! The 1864 is a good date, but it's one of those dates that is relatively common in your grade, but becomes one of the most difficult Bun Heads of all in higher grades. The gradient of scarcity (and thus of value) is steeper for the 1864 than for most dates in the series. Incidentally, the 1864 comes in two flavours, the Upper Serif (referring to the shape of the 4), and Crosslet 4 varieties. Yours is the former, and is slightly commoner than the crosslet. I expect you'd be disappointed with what they'd fetch - have a quick look at Completed Listings on ebay.co.uk and you'll get the picture. Keep 'em, I'd say.

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Somebody watching us, watching them, then...

You can't keep both! That goes against all the rules, blimey, whatever next. At that rate people will be collecting whatever they like, not what they have to get.... ...it'll be anarchy

Absolutely, Garrett! I use an average of 4: CCGB, BCMV, CYB, and Spink (everyone OK with those acronyms?), then chuck my own sales records in for good measure. Quite often all the books are miles out from what I think I could reasonably get for a coin. Any eBay coinie who has been playing this silly game for a while now would no doubt say the same.

No, Rich, I don't think you've been rinsed! It's a good price, but not a steal, and the coin looks OK. If it still looks OK in the hand then I think you can be pleased. There's no substitute for experience, and the only way to get it is to to buy coins! There were probably no other bidders because people tend not to like it when sellers use high starting bids. I have picked up some bargains myself that way. If he had started it at 99p it may well have gone over £39.

Top information, Steve! You could certainly have saved me some disappointment...

Oh I do like it when that happens. Would have made lotsauctions day. He clearly didn't know what he had. Feelgood story!

The one last night, or the one two weeks ago?

Nice shooting on the F28, ,Steve! I figured that the seller would be well-known - they're not the kind of coins you find on the car-boot....

Yes, I watched all those drift by, David! I decided I couldn't live with the grade on any of them apart from the F17, which I got for £50 or so. Happy with that... Who is that mystery seller? Penny Dealer.co.uk doesn't work any more...I'll find out when it arrives I suppose...

..to coin a phrase. Enough now.

Oh, but this is abuse... what a stupid concept.

Still going strong, Peter! 17 days since I smoked properly, and 13 since my last puff (which wasn't strictly tobacco, but I'm not risking smoking that either this early on....too risky). Money seems to be behaving very strangely - appears to arrive in my pocket and stay there. It's never done that before... Excellent Declan I still treat myself to a Cuban or a camberwell Yes, I don't mind getting to that stage - a treat, rather than a need. It was being a slave to Old Nick I didn't like...

Still going strong, Peter! 17 days since I smoked properly, and 13 since my last puff (which wasn't strictly tobacco, but I'm not risking smoking that either this early on....too risky). Money seems to be behaving very strangely - appears to arrive in my pocket and stay there. It's never done that before...

When it gets there and the buyer finds out it's a farthing, there'll be tears. Often the small coins are assumed to be pennies by uninitiated sellers!

I think he does Ex-B, 125A, R2