Rob

That's useful. Thanks.

Golden rule is 'If in doubt, leave it out'. That applies to all walks of life, coin purchases included.

Grade is an opinion, attribution is not, or at least shouldn't be. You can argue the case if the grade is wildly out, but half a grade either way, not a chance.

Most of the time they do. Saleroom notices are usually no more than a handful on a total of a thousand or more lots. Given the extensive use of copy and paste, it's surprising there aren't more mistakes made.

Umm. That should be you're, not your. Spirit of Peck here..........

Why? You're human, they're human. Nobody has a monopoly on getting it right, nor on getting it wrong. That's why you have saleroom notices.

P995. Just have to keep your eyes open. They do come up occasionally, but will cost because they are popular.

Correct. The raised dots are only found with 11 leaves and not very common. You'll struggle to find a mint state one. The coin posted was Adams 36.

First coin, P1132 with 10 leaves points down; second coin, P1133A with 11 leaves points out. P1133 also has 11 leaves and points out, the difference being incuse dots on the rock for the 1132 & 33, while 1133A has raised dots on the rock behind the shield.

Tie ribbon

Wonderful, thank you. It was obviously not gold - too light, and the guy who picked them up in China 25 years ago threw them in with the rest of the things I bought off him. I suspect he would have remembered if he had paid gold prices.

No chance.

You don't have to spend huge amounts on them. You can pick one up for a few hundred pounds. Silver, aluminium and gold obviously cost more, so here you are starting around the 2K mark in mint state. Anyway, how can anyone not like one of these? http:// The early and late strikings are usually determined as a result of die rust spots being on some things and not others, even though struck from the same dies.

A coin struck by W J Taylor using dies acquired at the sale of the Soho Mint inventory in 1848 which he subsequently used struck in the period 1862 - 1885, frequently muling to produce previously unknown combinations. For many years these were pooh-poohed, but in the last 40 years have become accepted and now sell for sums approaching those realised for true Soho products. Some coins such as the nude Britannias only exist because of his activities, the die being acquired in the unhardened state in 1848. This term is used to differentiate the coins from those struck at Soho, which are themselves divided into early and late. The former being contemporary with the date on the coin, the latter struck at Soho using the same dies but at a later date.

Googling 1989 year of the snake is worse than useless. Clues anybody as to what it is? Diameter is about 32-33mm and weight of object, capsule and plastic is only 17.32g. A similar capsule is just under 3g, so allowing a gram for the plastic leaves an approximate weight of 13-13.5g Thanks.

Bump this one along again as it is still on the list of things to sort.

wow. not exactly common here, but to take a local issue token abroad and lose it............. you will either find a lot in the same place, or never find similar again

It's a 1927 box. Note the single shilling space.

The actual wear on the penny is not that great with hair detail remaining and the crosses detail on the shield meeting at the intersection, but the corrosion means I would stick it in the rummage box and get what I could for it.

Both nearly VF for wear, but the penny's surfaces are dire. The two pence is ten leaves and that's normal.

It is yet another case of a worn die being repaired, something that happened a lot in the Victorian era. Dies get blocked with use by dirt being compacted into the recesses, so the offending letter/digit is repunched to extend the life of the die. It becomes a variety for the collector who is doing a die study, but isn't an error as such and is unlikely to be worth a premium. Varieties are traditionally a case of a change to the intended design, which this isn't - pennies seemingly the exception to the rule as a result of their popularity and the desire of collectors to extend their essentially complete collections as seen in the several related threads on this forum. Grade is about the VF mark with the reverse slightly better, but the surfaces aren't very nice.

I've got the catalogue, but no spare. It's 100 pages and 1003 lots, so not really practical to scan. Spink sale 153, 11th July 2001 refers. Unfortunately, Spink's on-line sales archive only goes back to Slaney 1 (2003). There is also the International Currency Bureau sale of similar foreign items at Glens in 1999. They give mintages too. Some are rather rare. I do have a spare of the latter.

You can have cheap infrastructure charges if you have full employment or close to, contributing to the state coffers via taxation through which they were subsidised. Now we don't make very much and the potential workforce is partly idle. But that is the quid pro quo for cheap foreign goods being available to all and which buyers seem to lap up insatiably. Government funding is now directed to education, benefits and healthcare. Everyone wants that too, with a major disconnect in the way much of the population perceives the relationship between taxation and spending priorities. The pot is only so big. Maybe we should spend less on education, benefits and healthcare so that once again we can have cheap rail travel and postal services. Whichever way the pie is divided, someone will be unhappy.

Nor should you be. eBay - the place to go for disposing of problem coins. Use a dealer. If you aren't happy you can always return it, plus you have a choice of grades from fine to unc unlike ebay where the options are 'unc' or I don't grade my coins because opinions differ, for which read I can't / you wouldn't look if I gave less than unc.

Pay 100 more and you are spoilt for choice with better than EFs. If you want a genuine unc, keep searching. I've been looking for the past 7 years.