argentumandcoins

A Gentleman who was always happiest discussing coins. RIP Geoff.

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!

Look like silver medallets issued in 2000. Probably Vatican. Silver content will determine the price.

Best guess would be Colonial, possibly Canadian, local issue token. The bust is similar to a William Wyon pattern bust of 1823 for British West Africa, although obviously not the same quality. Colonial token coinage was rife around this date and some was "blacksmith made"

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).

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).

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!

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........

57000 sales equates to a massive amount of fees for ebay. Disgrace? Yes. Surprise? No.

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.

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.

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.....

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.

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.

Nice find though Rob. Shame the Groat collectors are more into hammered than milled or it would have a decent premium.

My dab....

Nee bova marra. Neebody has got owt to help us like eh!

My youngest keeps mixing up his d's and b's too

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.

Everything sells and everything has a value. If they are lead tokens from grain sacks etc the commercial value will be small. The real value is in the story and the mystique is it not?

That's a mighty assumption re Roman. They could have been anything from ancient to Foreign (not forgetting tokens as mentioned by Pete). The most probable answer would be GB copper coinage as any bag at any auction always has the ubiquitous 1806 halfpenny, 1797 penny etc in it. Copper coins became obsolete in 1860 with the switch to the smaller and lighter bronze coins.

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......

Token publishing sell the DVD version Pete but I much prefer books.

Anybody got a copy of the 2010 edition by Roger Outing available for sale please?

It's actually 2450 results featuring a good few of my own tokens Worth remembering they are ebay prices and a seller can only go down in price not up