Rob

Have to rethink this. Apparently Word didn't come as standard with XP which is what my computer is running with the dot matrix printer. Might have to see if I can cobble something together using the Sage accounts program. Thanks for the help anyway.

No it is simpler than that. I need to make some service reports for when I do a repair job on the non-coins side of life. The details will be hand written as I do the job, so it just needs to be a load of boxes of varying size joined together, all printed on 3 part copy paper. So boxes for customer name and address, date, hours worked, parts used, description of work done etc. I've got a box of blank 3 part tractor feed paper and still use a dot matrix printer for my invoices. Just don't want to spend hundreds on a few thousand of these from a stationery printer. The info in the boxes doesn't need to be stored on computer as it is quite straightforward to remember what job was done when and the detail of the job. This is really only to record it should my memory fail me.

I don't know, but it certainly looks Anglo-Saxby... Is it just me or does anyone else think that unresearched on eBay usually means you wouldn't like the answer, or reality would draw you to a cheaper conclusion? This guy has yet again done his best to mislead. He has dated it to 700-800AD, i.e. dating it as a sceat to get around the problem of the missing legend. Given his feedback, he has seen enough to give an accurate description 99 times or more out of a 100, but needless to say has a remarkable ability to choose an expensive and inaccurate description wherever possible when the alternative would be to take a fair (low) price for the coin in question. He's a disgrace.

Thanks. This version doesn't appearf to come with forms and the macros bit is empty as well - was probably a cut down cheap version. I'll see if anyone round here knows what you mean. I thought Word was for writing letters or documents. Whatever, it isn't worth spending a huge amount of money on as the last print run of these forms lasted 26 years, hence the need for a cheap fix to last another 5 or 6.

Hi folks. Any thoughts on the best program to buy to create a form based on personal experience. Nothing clever, just a series of irregular size and shape boxes with a title in the top LH corner of each box. Unfortunately a simple grid won't do. Thanks.

One for Clive here from his favourite seller. Identify the mint. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/c-700-A-D-British-Found-Anglo-Saxon-England-Ar-Silver-Penny-Coin-Unresearched-VF-/141305958962?pt=UK_Coins_BritishHammered_RL&hash=item20e67dd232

I don't think the engraving is that bad, and I think its medallic character was probably a bit too revolutionary for the masses accustomed to the standard reverse designs seen on all circulation coinage. It's the 20 million copies that are the problem. Never having circulated, they have never been withdrawn, so every single one is still out there.

Ebay is not the place to list it period. I wonder why they haven't offered it to Baldwins or Roddy Richardson - people that would pay good money for something correctly fitting the description

Not convinced it is silver given the colouration in the image. They are so rare you wouldn't likely find one looking like that - i.e. lots of circulation marks and all surfaces looking polished. FDC it ain't. Anyone with a silver cartwheel 2d is going to know what they have. The images aren't good enough to establish the finer detail, but without the blocked stops seen on the proofs it doesn't tick any boxes for a P1071 or 1072 and frankly the condition gives it away as does the literacy level. If Azda could plumb the following into the Ayephone's random translation service, perhaps we could have a more coherent piece of prose. EXTEMELY SCARCE & RARE 1797 SILVER PROOF FDC. CARTWHEEL TWOPENCE IN UNC. WILL BE IN HIGH DEMANED FOR TOO Ta.

If it was stolen in a slab, the slab would disappear. Many coins formerly entombed in a slab are now free. Breaking it out would be the first thing the thief would do.

Why not keep it in a capsule? Vacuum sealed won't make any difference to the gold which will not change its colour appreciably any time soon. Sending it off to the TPGs wil cost money, but confer little value. The grade is not sufficiently high to risk changing its value when handling it. I realise US collectors like a fixed number on their coins, but this number is a total lottery when it comes to the US TPGs. Personally I think it is a waste of time and money to get it slabbed as it has considerable wear meaning you won't get a high number/high price for it. The vast majority of US TPG slabbed hammered coins are way overgraded by British standards.

Double striking occurs more often than not with hammered coins of any size, so this isn't a mint error. The depth of strike frequently varies across the flan, so parts can be well struck alongside flat bits. It usually took more than one hammer blow to make the coin, so any movement by the person holding the upper die is seen as double striking. The die axis depended entirely on how the upper die was held relative to the lower fixed die, so rotation is normal. Your coin is fine. There is considerably more detail on a well struck unworn coin.

90% with a feedback of 19 is only 2 negs. It doesn't take a lot to get negs as a seller. I got one for sending a reminder as the person hadn't paid a month after it ended. Nothing undiplomatic, just a standard invoice from eBay, Easily done. Or how about everything good and then leave a neutral.

Hi Susan. It's definitely a modern copy as the mark in the first quarter of the reverse (the one with 15 in it) has the heart shaped mark. This is worth a pound or two and no more.

Quite a lot I suspect. I just did some number crunching and compared to 10 years ago when I was averaging 450 feedbacks per year combined for both buying and selling, I find the period since they made accepting Paypal compulsory (from summer 2007) averages about 30 per year with no sales and so from purchases only. This past 12 months has seen 9 purchases (many other than coins), also reflecting the difficulty in finding anything worthwhile to bid on.

That's the article where Richard identified his 2b rose marked shilling as ex-Francis. See plate 3.

I posted a piece on the very same subject matter when we had one a few years ago. I can't remember the title of it now to find and link to it. It was a rather bizarre vibration yet somehow floating sensation as I remember.

I'm not sure it is worth having the full English translation in the table given that you would never find a coin with translated legend. Commonwealth coins being in English require no translation. I usually sell early editions of North to detectorists. Cheap and cheerful as a reference, I think a net based one is less obviously useful in the field, and in the case of the link not particularly helpful when a high grade coin image would do a better job as you could actually see what was written.

The bits that stick are very resilient in my opinion. Having solidified on the rough surface they are quite stable. Yes you can remove them with a toothpick, but that's only because the wax is relatively soft. Most coins have survived a good few owners handling them. I have never seen a coin with wax which subsequently falls off.

But that was 3 hours and 4 or 5 posts between Peck's last visit and your reply. Still doesn't make sense unless you wrote it but didn't reply for a few hours..

Gone in a Flash, so to speak.

What?

"years of Issue 1929-1942" !! Should have gone to eBay. Could have got an example genuinely struck in 1929-1942 for £100.

If it is possible to make them think twice then anything to reduce the collateral damage is good. If PCGS can tell the owner it is not very sensible it would also help. There is a difference between removing finger grease and destroying historical evidence.

I just fired off an email to PCGS about it after running it past the diplomacy checker. God knows if they will pay any intention, but it might just possibly make someone think about the problem. Contents as follows: Dear Sirs, I have just noticed that the ‘environmental damage’ restoration service you offer on your European site has an issue. The image you show where you have removed wax adhering to the coin has the effect of immediately removing an identifiable link of the coin to a past sale. The wax is from a cast taken to illustrate the coin in the first half of the last century or possibly even earlier.Sometimes that wax can be identified from the images in the catalogue and so a provenance established for the coin.That provenance could potentially greatly enhance the value of the coin in question as it may well provide links going back to the 19th or even the 18th century depending on the previous owner(s).The presence of wax is the only indicator with the coin in hand that it was illustrated in the past and so enhances the chances of finding it in a past catalogue.The continued presence of wax is important as one of the main pieces of evidence we have regarding a coin’s past and by extension its authenticity.Retaining wax will show the expertise of PCGS in assigning the correct provenance where possible and further shows that PCGS appreciates its significance.Thank you. Yours sincerely Rob Pearce