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In a nutshell old bean, there is sweet fanny adams that you can do as a seller. Ebay will ALWAYS side with the buyer. I know you only sell in the UK so at least you are semi protected as you can use recorded or special deliveries. The buyer will have to open an item not received dispute and I always make them escalate it to a full claim rather than just shell out. This is only on principle though because in the end it makes not a sheeite of difference. You will in turn have to record a claim against the Royal Snail, but I think you have to wait 14 days from date of posting. If you swim with the sharks you have to accept that one day you're going to get nipped! Could you PM me their usernames please so I can add them to my non-specific colour list (used to be called a blacklist pre the pc PC days)

Very RareA must have for the unique variety collector

Hiya again, got £100 for the gold one which i thought was quite good, since im pretty skint lol(that'll do my wee girls birthday next month)....though she did try to tell me she was only giving me £40 'hahahaha' was my reaction (nice try misses). Just shows you, they try to rip folk off. The other coins are doing terribly on ebay like you said £100 - good result for a fairly standard sovereign! Mind you, not being a gold collector, I have no idea if that's a fair reflection of current bullion values? But £100 is a LOT better than £40 Around £130 for a half sovereign and £260 for a full is the current buying price in sale rooms.

In a word, no. To have a genuine coin would require an obverse die fitted top and bottom and that just does not happen.

There are a couple of ebay sellers you could ask. One of them even states in huge bold capitals THIS COIN HAS BEEN CLEANED. He has bought a few coins from me and I very nearly added him as a blocked bidder due to his inexcusable crimes. I understand why he does it if I can only get £10 for a toned A UNC 1887 florin and he can triple that just by "enhancing" it. What I cannot understand is the idiot that wants to pay 3 times more for a cleaned coin than a nicely toned example

It was a nice one, hammered at £230 + 18% premium.

The prices were brutal. If anybody wants to consign the next sale will be first week in December. I am already sorting out my bulk dross to submit!!!

Happy birthday young Patrick. Enjoy your day at the coin shop

The answer to that question is no then. I've been collecting coins for over 20 years and well i've I don't have any of the first four coins. I do have some 1967 pennies but they were a gift, there's no way on earth I'd actually buy one! I suppose it shows our collecting bias. Every coin you list is copper or bronze and I've never collected copper or bronze coins. If I had made the list it would look more like this; Elizabeth II florin George VI florin Bun Head Penny Brass Threepence Wren Farthing 1967 halfpenny Elizabeth II shilling And the only reason I list these is because these are the coins most people in the UK who aren't collectors are likely to ask the question 'i've found an old coin, what's it worth?' That and most of us probably have a few of them lying around (unspent change in the case of the florins and shillings from about 20 odd years ago), even if we don't actually collect any of them per say. My nomination for the ugliest predecimal coin Sorry Peck but I don't like the look of dear old Lizzies Thrupenny bits

There's just one slight snag with all of the above..........who do you think is ever going to police or enforce the legislation? I suspect it was put in place to stop the currency of the realm being decimated if the metal price rose significantly above the face value of the coin in question and only then would it be enacted against major players who attempted to release their equity. It's just the same sort of thing as putting a stamp on an envelope upside down isn't it (I think there is something in statute about that being treasonable but I may be wrong)? A point in Law that isn't worth the parchment it was printed on.

i always preffered the frosted description, cameo just sounds like a bar of soup am i right in thinking cameo may be an american term for frosted? I think it more than likely comes from the jewellery trade, where a cameo portrait is a raised portrait, on a brooch for example and is usually of a different finish to the rest of the object (usually shells such as cowry or conch). Whether it was adopted by the Americans for coins or not I could not tell you.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1986-2-Thistle-Coin-Very-Rare-/180708677069?pt=UK_Coins_BritishDecimal_RL&hash=item2a131395cd A plastic sleeve is included with this very rare coin though!

Yes these are the trials coins , I am the actual bidder on this item, but just cannot find any information or books on these Royal Mint trials, I have looked through many auction archives and have found many different types. but still looking for more information. Have you tried contacting the Royal Mint?

Hello Jon, Condolences. No need for photographs as they are roughly worth their scrap weight. Add all of the weights from the certificates and check the spot price to find the value. Most sets are 12 or 24 coin sets and most are 0.925 standard silver. Based on that supposition the value will be between £250 and £500. John.

Try a search on the major London coin auction sites (I think DNW in particular had a sale with a lot of trial strike pieces recently). Their archives usually have detailed descriptions and hammer prices together with pictures in most cases.

I would guess Victorian, ie made to deceive in currency transactions. It looks too crude to be an attempt at conning a collector. It would be interesting to know the weight and metal composition.

Sorry to have to tell you that it isn't what it purports to be. It's a copy. If it was right I would have had it in the blink of an eye, even in that state.

Catalogue is now online for those who may be interested at; http://www.pfkauctions.co.uk/Catalogues/as170811/index.html There should be something of interest for all of you. One or two typos due to my handwriting! Bidding is live online for those who can't attend and there is a postal service available via the auction house rather than third party.

Easy; Shite, shite and self serving shites... and I would definitely slab every single politician I could lay hands on (nice big granite slabs should do it!)

I have no reason to doubt the source Dave. Small obscure sales regularly turn up sleepers and because they are obscure the prices are usually much more appetising than in the London salerooms. The cataloguer is a militaria man and really knows his stuff, but he is not so hot on coins so even if it was a forgery he would not have known or expected it to be so. It may be a genuine piece, but I won't gamble on maybes unless they are coming at stupidly low prices. John.

It was a poor sale overall and I had no interest even at £40 in the 93. I might be wrong, but, they might all be forgeries. For only a handful of known examples they have to have been trial pieces or patterns? If that is/was the case surely the work would have been of a higher standard? I'm no expert in the field but that's my thoughts for what they're worth!

That's the one! Have I missed out on a 'bargain', or had a lucky escape? It looked genuine to me, but given that a VF specimen went for £9,500, I felt that anything above £2,000 for this one in Good Fair, maybe NF was as far as I wanted to go. Sometimes filling a gap isn't always a case of 'at any cost' and for me this was one such occasion. Hey ho. I console myself with the thought that this issue wasn't really a circulation piece and that's what I collect, rather than all the other trials, proofs and assorted types. But I've still got the dolly and the pins!!!! I had a good look at it and did not think it was genuine. Looked like tooling on the exergue although I didn't put it under a scope. There was also a lot of grime in and around the date but not on the legends. I understand all of the 9's on these look enlarged but it looked too bad to be a pattern piece. I may be wrong but a £2360 price is a long way to go for a coin you hadn't inspected first hand! If it's any consolation there was no interest in the room with book against phone all the way from £40!

The one in Carlisle at the saleroom I work in part time?

What do you want to know? History? Value? Grade? Pictures would be necessary if either of the last two are required. Ok i will try and take some pics and attatch them i want to know everything Sadly I think it is not possible for any of us humans to be able to know everything

Without pictures your valuation is between £2 and £80 retail. A simple check on ebay will be your best bet.