Rob

Hmm. Not sure here. As the average life expectancy increases, this should also delay the demise of those who are below the mean. Unless all the increase is taken up by those who are already healthy but live longer due to advances in medicine, the same advances must also affect the bottom end of the distribution curve. The average life expectancy over the last generation has increased by at least half that number of years, so a 5 year increase in the retirement age shouldn't result in more people dying in employment. Given the acknowledged difference between the life expectancies of those at opposite ends of the social spectrum, it is more likely that those dying younger will be unemployed in the years leading up to the age of 70 - so probably irrelevant to insurance companies paying out for those dying whilst in companies' employment.

Part of the problem here is that too many things are identified as errors when they quite patently are not. Call it misattribution overload.

A photo might have been less expensive.

Maundy or a regular currency piece? Pictures please.

Ah, but DNW & Spink filter out the odd 10000 Churchill et al crowns that plague ebay and you also know that in the main the worst you will find in the auctions is not too far removed from the best you see on ebay. If eBay listings reduced by 90% to where they were 10 years ago, it would be a much more pleasurable experience.

There was value both created and destroyed today. There were a few things that were relatively cheap for the specialist today, but the prices of the Mary and P&M groats beggared belief. If I was paying £2K for one I would expect a very nice full EF and better.

A bit messy on the reverse at 4 o'clock and flat on the crown. Too expensive.

The last year or two these have gone up in leaps and bounds. Not sure why given the monotony of design.

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It was one i was going to bid on, but to much for me eventually Nice coin that Rob, what was the Price? 360. The same as the second one (2262). The first had less wear to the obverse, the second better struck on the reverse but a little off-centre. If the second had been cheap I would have bought that too.

I thought the Tower halfcrown would do well judging by recent offerings. I bought the Briot milled penny (2118)

I've got one so far, and at less than expected.

Yes, but no more than a few hundred grams?

Thanks Clive, and John for the email. Only another 134.99884kg to go.

I need the current prices for a 1900 5c with circular 0s (the scarce one), if anyone got an up to date Charlton?. Thanks.

All of the above. The main thing driving prices is the scarcity of desirable material. There are a lot of people with a lot of money in their pockets and nowhere to put it. The money supply has been expanded by the additional money that has been printed but the assets remain the same in terms of quantity. Prices as a total have to increase to reflect the amount of money in circulation.

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£700-750 is about right.

For what it's worth, the weights of my examples dies 2+A* to 2+D* are as follows: P724 2+A* 9.19g P726 2+B* 10.09g P728 2+C* 8.31g P730 2+D* 9.17g The silver ones are pro-rata with regard to density. The edge will likely be filed. Based on the evidence seen on an example of a 1729 silver proof 1/2d that went through Baldwins about 5 or 6 years ago, it seems that proofs in this period were possibly struck on a sheet and punched out slightly larger than the coin, then the edges were filed down and the excess removed. They were not obviously struck in a collar as the flans are usually slightly irregular, or if they were struck using a collar, it wasn't a very good fit. Certainly the edges aren't normally flat and perpendicular which you would expect if used and any subsequent filing would negate any finish obtained with a collar.. Clearly my 728 is at the lower end of the weight range, but the 10g or so of the 726 is about as high as I've seen or have recorded. I would suggest a figure approaching 11g to be questionable.

Ooh. Not seen one of those before. Weight about right or is the flan thicker or thinner?

P728 is one that you would want to know the weight. There are copies of this variety made 100 years ago by Robert Ready taken from the BM's example. They have RR stamped incuse on the edge and are a bit thicker than the real one. I don't have an example to give the weight of the copy unfortunately. My P728 weighs 8.31g. It is probably the most frequently documented variety of the various die combinations, though how many of these are copies is not certain.

How many do you need? I've got between 1 & 2kgs of Russian as I picked up 135kgs of misc world scrap recently and am just having a quick look through before they get melted. There are plenty that are close to unc.

Two years or so ago I received a notification that I had won a lot - three months after the event. As it transpired, I had filled the order in the interim, so complained at the delay which I reasonably assumed had been won by another bidder (at my maximum) and they didn't require me to pay for it. Credit where due for that as mistakes do happen, but the winning bid at my maximum meant that was the last time I bid with them. I have always given instructions to bid as cheaply as possible up to a maximum figure. Unfortunately it appears that cheaply as possible and maximum are synonymous.

Yuk yuk and yuk again, whatever the grade ANYONE dreams up, that coin has zero eye appeal for me! That's ok then, no problems for you as you're not being forced to buy it. Beauty is as always, in the eye of the beholder. Full marks to the person listing it. Cac rainbow is about right - 40 shades of brown.

Looks like an almost perfect fingerprint on the obverse.