Rob

You can get a pretty good idea of how accurate they are by putting a sovereign on then if you don't have a calibrated weight. All the cheap ones seem to have a cal function these days. Anything to within 0.02 or so ought to be acceptable. Otherwise you go down the lab balance route with a closing door to eliminate draughts and a temperature controlled room. You can't get away from the calibrated reference weight though.

But we need the jobs here, otherwise our society collapses.

Yes, well, Sugar has become a celeb too. Pity he didn't devote so much effort to ensuring his manufacturing businesses endured.

When the supply is so limited, prices can go anywhere. A better guide is for those which are readily obtainable, or can reasonably be expected to appear within the near future. Good if you can get such a large premium on a single sale, but would you get the same if the sale fell through and you had to relist it, or if another came up? How much would it go for in this instance? Virtually every area has a big spender willing to outdo the opposition, but that in itself doesn't make a strong market. You only have to look at Stanley Gibbons, who had to restate their accounts after one client failed to go through with a purchase resulting in restated accounts - half a million profit became half a million loss.

You don't need to petition parliament, just don't mindlessly watch programs just because they are on. A lack of viewers will soon mean loss of advertising revenue which will feed through into more selective programming. The basic problem with TV is that they probably make as many good programs now as they did a few decades ago, just that now they are spread over a couple hundred channels instead of being squeezed into three or four. A quick look around the channels sees the same faces hosting the same me too programs. See one, you've seen them all............. many times over. All this is pie in the sky of course as the mindless majority are alive and well. Lowest common denomiinator TV is thriving and will continue to do so, but that doesn't mean you as an individual have to watch.

I can't stand x factor or similar, but then I don't watch much TV anyway. The better news is that the wife can't stand it either. Chez Rob is quite harmonious at present Our remote has a very large, friendly, and often used mute button.

That would need to be close to 14g if you use the criteria adopted by Freeman. They must have weighed it to quote that figure.

I'm not convinced the weights of the slabs would be consistent enough to tell you anything. The blanks from the mint are likely to be tighter tolerance than a production line where you have no trading standards or monetary standards to consider

Go with that

Too many spots in agreement. Also the marks at 12 o'clock on the reverse agree. Depending on how the image pans out, some you see and some you don't.

Just a personal opinion, but showing up marks is the point of illustration. I'd be happy buying the Spink image when they don't show in hand, but less happy buying the 'nice' one only to find that the image had been doctored.

I'd go for the last one with the top bar of the 5 lower than the top bar of the 3

No, the easier going bits of the traditional divide get on quite well really. Having said that, the extremes of right and left could have given this lot a run for their money. The bit that confounds is the presence of very rich lefties, and poor people who vote for the right.

3rd Friday and Saturday in January and July

That presumably is the dilemma for all users. Once tied to one or the other, you have a load of unusable files if you try to change. Plus, I'm not sure I would be popular if I printed all the things I would want to keep - it's bad enough printing out all the ledgers for the year end.

Possibly, we'll never know, but the paper is right and the coin is mint state, so if not genuine, then someone has gone to the trouble of wrecking a newspaper from 1705 just to wrap it in. Christmas present?

That's what it was found wrapped in

You mean like this one? http://www.petitioncrown.com/Queen_Anne_1705_Crown.html

From this side of the pond the contest appears rather unedifying. I would have thought there were more important issues in the world than two contenders bent on mud slinging. Fiddles, fires and Rome spring to mind. Trouble is, nothing gets done unless the President is the same colour as Congress and the Senate, but if they were of the same political persuasion, the thought of the potential havoc they could wreak is equally worrying. Neither of our countries benefit from our politicians.

He could probably help himself by believing what he says. If a much better example than one which sold for £2K through LCA, then surely doing this should realise a higher price still? Added to that, by going through an auction house he would bypass much of the suspicion associated with eBay, whereby you assume that someone is trying to rip you off. Particularly appropriate given his historical baggage. Furthermore, the statement that it can only go up in price when inflation is somewhere close to zero should mean a hold if he believes what he says. Or perhaps it's just all b*****ks.

Someone heavily into coins not wanting to mention them or be associated with them? Weird

So he doesn't want us to put people off buying the things they would never dream of buying in the first place? This forum will have zero impact on sales. For us it's just a case of thank you, but no thank you. The numerous discussions elsewhere (mostly US) however, suggest a different story. Talking of Henries, I bought a Henry last weekend - and it wasn't a vacuum cleaner.

Agreed, but there are far more concerned parties elsewhere than on this forum about the vendor in question Our thread is irrelevant as nobody is going to get here using Google as their preferred route. I just googled the company and didn't include coins.

Don't wory about it Nordle. This forum doesn't appear on the first 10 pages of a Google search, so there can be no issue with it affecting their business (as you would expect from a forum such as this) and if no rules are broken then it's legit. The links on the first 10 are mostly the preserve of a large number of 'discussions'. Maybe Henry should have a chat with Google.

Minor marks in the field, but realistically quite minimal compared to what could be there. Better date than 1887 as well. Looks good to me.