Gary D

I must say I like the Colin Cooke idea, really don't like the idea of having to wind them through ebay. Didn't someone from CC used to frequent the board at one time.

Ok so many have had a look. Photos of plate sized coins does not give the best impression and makes one wonder if they are really of good enough/desirable quality. That aside I'm comming up to retirement so it's time to sell and start the next adventure. I would prefer to shift the whole collection in one go. Is the collection good enough to get one of the auction houses involve. What other options are there. Thoughts and opinions please.

Just looking for the broken tooth they should be easy to spot in any grade.

My sunday best watch is what my father gave to me. It's a 1970s 18k Eterna Matic self wind.

For day to day use I have a Rado Florence that my wife bought me for my 50th birthday. She purchesed is from the Abu Dhabi duty free when we were passing through that way. Not seen this model over here to my have been only available in the middle east. A couple of years age my wife's cousin was visiting from California and she gave me this, I call it my drug dealer watch. It weighs all of 600g.

It was London Coins Lot 1076 3rd Sept 2006, £1100 plus premium.

The buyer says fair condition, being a bit generous I would say.

I've always looked on Lockdales as being a bit of a provincial auction house, definitely second tier.

I bought it from London Coins some years ago. Not cheap but I think it must have been a quiet day. I paid just over £1200, would be nice to think it has gone up a bit since. If I recall I was the only bidder and had to up my bid to make the reserve.

1951 Proof Shilling fixed. 🙂

Freemans 176 now fixed.

Thanks I'll fix it in the morning, it's gratifying that people are look that closely.

I've fixed the 1922 shilling now. The original photos are 6MB bit files but to get the whole collection onto Onedrive I had to crop and JPG them.

I would suggest that the big melt would have completely distorted rarity figures. A large number were removed before the melt so a lot of the big mintages may now be rarer than the pre melt rarities.

Over the last few months I have been recording my collection. Shortly before leaving my previous employer I had put my entire collection under the inspection microscope and photographed them. Although the resolutuion is great the end results have been mixed in that the colours have come out understated and many of the proofs show a flat field where it should be mirrored. Another problem has been that some coins have taken a purple ting which I believe is a fault on the file saving process. Anyway I was made redundent so I'm unable to repeat any of the picture. Anyway for what it's worth here it is. https://onedrive.live.com/?id=943941AD323D5647!135&cid=943941AD323D5647

I knew penny as a school girl, my mum used to char for her parents, I prefered her elder sister.

The cutlery is stainless steel, not all steels can be magnetised, austenitic stainless is non magnetic.

It looks like a non Royal Mint currency set.

I'll try and photograph the crown later but I'm not sure a picture will convey much.

Struggled with the colour.

I've mention a couple of time over the last few years that I had one but know one took any notice.

So nobody wants to tell the latest value for the Churchill satin proof. My Spinks is a couple of years old now.

got this Churchill crown thats looks very satiny, milling cuts your fingers to pick it up, wots it worth now days, must be fowsands.