Rob

Nope. But in this era of 24/7 communication, all currencies are tradable if free floating, so it doesn't really matter what the currency is. Although the currency brokers will make a small amount on conversion, it is a small price to pay for not being tied to the fortunes of another country whose political and economic policies and interests are invariably going to diverge from yours. That's why the Euro is screwing up the Eurozone.

A large part of the relative success of slabbing in the US vs the UK seems to me to be that more people across the pond seem to be in a state of semi-paranoia regarding whether a coin is genuine or not. A small minority with deep pockets actively pursue the best score accolade, but I see far more concerns posted about authenticity. Clearly the number of iffy items is likely to be the same there as here, so are we not as concerned as our US cousins, as aware of the problem, or just more laid back as a culture? GeoffT who is a member here, summed up the difference between cultures when he said that Americans have a greater tendency to believe in absolutes, which accounts for the need to have a coin graded and a number assigned in perpetuity. A sporting analogy would be the need in the US for overtime to produce a winner, whereas the 5 days spent arriving at an indecisive result for a game of cricket would be anathema. 4000 coins per year is not a sustainable business. I think their big problem is that culturally we are somewhat easy going and relaxed about our hobby, and probably crucially, are less inclined to treat our coins as an investment. Therefore, it will always be an uphill struggle to raise the workload to a sustainable level. It would be interesting to know the number of people in this country who submit coins to NGC or PCGS on a regular basis, as I suspect there are not too many. That would give a better idea as to the viability of a TPG in this country, irrespective of whether it is CGS or someone else.

Surely getting it cross graded by NGC or PCGS is just throwing good money after bad, or if you are a believer in TPGs, just a waste of money? The grade assigned isn't going to change with a change of ownership. It is at the end of the day, a sunk cost, but the opinion is as valid as the day it was slabbed, whether in plastic or freed.

At less than £25 each, I think the buyer will make more than that by selling them individually. There's no con involved here. The only sanity issue is how much the purchasers of the individual pieces pay looking in the future. You see single copies selling for a three figure sum on occasion - now that's worthy of a or a

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An increase in the population from 6 to 40 has either killed the value of the genuine article, or, given the current rarity, the prices realised provided an incentive for someone to make copies. You would have been better off finding one or two and not three dozen, as the R number of collectors could be greater than that of the collectable item in question. I hope they are genuine, but you never know.

Not sure what you mean when you say the coin is a 'downturn', but I wouldn't get your hopes up. There are a few die faults giving rise to warts and the like which don't add much, if anything, to the value.

Just collect what you want. Buy as many or as few as you want. There are no rules. Most people stop due to either having completed, or being frustrated due to an inability to complete. Widen your horizon and it is likely you will be pushing up the daisies before you find nothing to buy. All assuming that you still want to collect, of course. I refocussed because the pace of acquisition had slowed dramatically. Still didn't stop me creating a 'Too nice to sell' category though, so I guess I still kept part of the original focus.

Spink are unlikely to want it unless bulked up (with a few more errors) as I don't think it would make more than £10-20 as a stand alone piece. The problem is that wrong flan pieces are ok up to a point, but the denomination has no large following unlike say pennies, crowns or halfcrowns, so most potential buyers would be error collectors, who tend to be bottom fishers.

It is also 12-sided, but if the images in K&M are accurate, it is smaller, so you wouldn't necessarily see the angles of the rim. I hope the letter is genuine as 8 weeks seems a remarkably short time for them to turn an enquiry around. Also, if you have copied it verbatim, I would expect the RMM to spell curator correctly and use capital letters for its name.

In the absence of an image, nobody is sure what it is.

As I said. Food for thought. Not sure where we are up to. How did all this come out? Did he genuinely film Nice or not? Is any of his film corroborated by uninterested third parties?

oooh. That's food for thought

I think the official reaction is the right one though. Until you know who did it, people should not jump to conclusions. Otherwise you end up with trial by tabloid and there are a lot of potential Christopher Jefferies in this world, me included.

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The ease with which the rim and teeth are obliterated on the 1909 is a significant reason for the low population because it isn't a particularly rare date within the mountains of crap I see on a regular basis. You don't lose the date very often.

Completely screwed up. 25 degrees and sleeting. Obviously not quite cold enough up top to form hailstones.

too small

Carbon spot?

Nope. Blandford Forum. And Corfe only has one f.

A Dorset one.

Or an E over F, but not punched deeply enough into an already hardened die

Definitely two different dies because even if the fields were polished to remove the flaws and underlying E on the highest points on the die, it would still be present where it crosses the right prong of the trident.

My coin has no serifs to the bottom of the first I in VICTORIA and the F, plus on the reverse there is a long vertical flaw leaning slightly right passing through the centre point of the 8 from the rim to just under the hemline above, but quite faint once it hits the ground. And there is no sign of the underlying E in ONE which would have to mean that mine was before it was recut unless it is a third incarnation with the field polished sufficiently to remove the original. That's possible given the underlying E in ONE on yours is not parallel to the linear circle, which mine is. My LCW is not well formed either

Call it F whatever you want. Happy to bow to superior knowledge. It's a prooflike reverse unc type example early bronze penny to me. I just went off the ticket, which I'll change.