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  2. Posted

    16 hours ago, PWA 1967 said:

    Sorry Rob / John as Mark had not had any replies since yesterday i just assumed nodody was interested in them and just giving him a couple of options.

     

    I had PM'd him Pete, but no reply as yet. I have bought similar stuff in the past and had the seller send it via Special Delivery. It works okay as long as the seller has enough trust in the buyer!

  5. Posted

    I've just ordered some for stock. If you google Royal Mint Discount codes there's a code for a free 2016 £5 coin with all orders over £40. You also get free delivery on all orders over £45.

    I had to put 6 orders through just to fill my boots on free stuff (yes some of it is crap but it all sells).

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  6. Posted

    Rob has covered the Ed VII silver question.

    Re the reference books there is nothing in particular for any of the milled series issues that is relevant only to one denomination.

    The general books that will help you are ESC (recently reworked by Maurice Bull), Davies (silver coinage since 1816 and supplied by Rob) and then any specific sixpence collection auction catalogues (most recent being the Alfred Bole collection).

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  7. Posted

    As already discussed with Pete, the coin in the collection was taken from a complete and original 1937 proof set. It was clearly a proof. Dad already knew that it was unrecorded but checked every 1937 set we encountered in salerooms (a lot I may tell you). If you handle enough coins you know a proof as soon as you see one. Why some dealers and auction houses refuse to accept the totally bleedin obvious is beyond me, but fail they do!

     

  8. Posted

    As a dealer you have 2 ways you can go.

    1) keep the cash and lose a customer or 20.

    2) give a refund, take a hit and keep your reputation intact.

    No-brainer really (unless you've got no brain).

    It would be remiss of me to pass judgement on a fellow dealer........

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  10. Posted

    47 minutes ago, Coinery said:

    Christ, dying his hair at 8...poor you, John! My boy's 9 and fortunately things are still agreeable at home, so it's a lot easier to guide him.

    He went to a 'big school' open day the other day and came back with a 2p he'd electroplated 'gold!' Got me proper thinkin' it did! ?

    Ebay here we come:

    LOOK MUST SEE RARE gold proof 2p mint error (wrong mettle used).

    I've never seed another so it must be uneek. Super rae investmant. Happy bidding.

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  11. Posted

    14 minutes ago, Nonmortuus said:

    My lad just turned 8 and wants to do exactly the same, make videos of him playing games and talking about it. I have tried to explain to him why, at 8 years old, I am not prepared to pet him do it.

    Sadly my lad lives with his vacuous mother and the "anything for a quiet life" rule applies, hence the earring at 6, dyed blonde hair at the front for the past 12 months etc etc.

  12. Posted

    14 minutes ago, Rob said:

    I've had two sales this week off the site - both fraudulent. Get more of those than genuine sales.

    People must think you were born yesterday, like the idiot 5 years ago who made two purchases 13 months apart giving a different address, but only changed the last digit on his mobile contact number, and then 6 months after that made a third purchase but used the same email address he had used 19 months previously. Sometimes you fear for the mental capacity of this country. :(

     

    I had the same guy contact me twice trying to buy gold coins and pay by credit card, oh, and could I ship them immediately as the address he wanted them sending to would only have somebody home to receive for the next day.....

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    9 hours ago, Rob said:

    I had a quick look through the income report and I still can't see why someone would pay them to post a recipe. Who pays for these things? Father Christmas? I guess success comes from working hard, but it would require a huge amount of canvassing to get people to advertise with you and then you take your eye off the ball and the business suffers. A plus for them is that everyone has to eat, so any company can advertise in the knowledge that their customers cook food, so it has to be potentially profitable, but surely nobody consults a random person on the internet to find out how to cook? That's just plain weird. Better off getting a wife that can cook, or at least buy yourself a can opener, after all, cooking is about satisfying hunger with a palatable dish and isn't about creating an artistic masterpiece, despite what the pretentious t**ts say.

    I think coins would struggle though. According to the Shopify home page, I had someone looking for Glendining 1989 catalogues today. I have 1989s and just about every other year since the mid-70s complete or nearly so, but not enough time to go through and list them, let alone the other auction houses. How are you supposed to find time to list dozens of auction catalogues, recipes or whatever every day and still find time to witter on inanely about them at the same time? And ultimately, nobody would pay for an average daily viewer count of 30 or so people. It is little wonder John took his website down recently

    I think most of the page visits I used to get on my website were people trying to get a price on a coin(s) that they had found in car boot sales or family members dusty drawers (no puns Peter!!!).

    T'internet is a strange and mysterious place to a dinosaur like me but my middle boy (8 next month) wants me to help him set up a facetube/youtime thingy so he can get subscribers watching him doing stupid things. He needs my help if any "dangerous people" start to contact him. He can make "lots of money" apparently. What a sad and dangerous world we seem to have created for our descendants. I think at 8 years old my interests extended to all things army (action man, little soldiers, playing "Japs and English"), football and bike riding.

  14. Posted

    59 minutes ago, 1949threepence said:

    Collected it from the Post Office today John. Thanks for a very fair price. I know it's not the best F21 out there, by any stretch. There are some crackers on Richard's rare pennies site, but being such a rarity, it's certainly good enough for me. Now means I've got 11 of the 1861 Freeman varieties.

    Incidentally John, when is the Tennant's sale you mentioned in your e mail? There are still one or two others I'm interested in. 

     

     

     

     

     

     

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    The old boy would be pleased to see it in  a good home Mike! 11 isn't bad going as some of them are really hard to find in any state.

    Tennants is TBA (they are contemplating a stand alone sale rather than including it within another coin sale). I didn't get my 0% rate so there won't be any flexibility on reserves. 

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  19. Posted

    Until grading is done by a computerised scan and the images compared via software there will NEVER be any consistency or real accuracy in grades. I know that I could grade the same coin differently if I looked at it 30 minutes apart and I do it for a living. A benchmark set of coins is all well and good but at the end of the day it still comes down to how each grader compares the coin to the benchmark. Just as an aside, who graded the benchmark set that all submissions are now compared against?

    The CGS grades seem excessively harsh to me but why would their graders give a flying feck as it's not their investment that they are devaluing? London Coins are now very harsh (as I found when putting the collection to them) but, why would they give a flying feck as it's not their investment they are underselling.......

    Would I be happy with that Gothic in a raw state without an EF60 (WTF does that mean?) sticker on it? Hell yes. How would I grade it? Probably A UNC. The Florin looks around the same although I will use the caveat that grading from pics is always prone to +/- at least half a grade error.

  22. Posted

    35 minutes ago, declan03 said:

    Heres a lot i thought about until it crashed through the £700 barrier . Maybe it was still a good buy but its goobye from me!! ?

    http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/4-X-Victoria-Shillings-1850-1889-1890-1893-beautiful-condition/332399137923?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649

    I wouldn't stress about it. I'm 90% sure the 1850 is a fake. The seller is a lying twat as a quick check of his feedback shows sales of "key date" George II shillings over a year ago.

    If a deal looks too good to be true......

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