Gary D

Question. How can you tell if an Engineer has communication skills? Answer. He looks at your shoes when you are talking to him.

...and the rest! If the pie had onions in it would it be 3.141414141414......

Or for the oldies on here 22/7

When you say "My link", do you mean that's your coin you're selling? No 'My Link' was the default name given when I posted the post. To me that crown looks cast....maybe

My link

I believe I have all 4.

Most of the world has a climate, we have weather There's no such thing as the wrong weather just the wrong cloths

Especially when you think that Uni admission in 1972 was for 'the academic elite' (the top 10 - 20% of schoolkids) whereas now it's pretty close to 50%? My son is also just coming up to his AS's and the grading is so different now days. An A* seems to be anything above about 85%, christ that was a B when I was at school. He also complains that the schools are just sausage machines, I said yes ok but if you are in a que of 200 going for a job it's still the biggest sausage that gets the job.

There was also a Theresa Green at my school, also a gentelman with the surname Hunt . I worked with a guy who I can't think of his first name with the surname Riddle, of course he was called Jimmy. I also worked with another guy who would wear the same shirt all week, he was christened Daz.

Labour's head prime minister wannabe was on tele yesterday giving snitch and snatch a good bashing about the petrol fiasco and was asked about the pie tax, didn't say two words about pies just answered with more fuel bashing. Don't think there's going to be much help from that quarter.

I sold a 1921 nose to VS shilling on ebay a couple of years ago. First time it went up too £35 so I dipped it and put it back on the next week and it went for £83

If I had that cash to spare, I would. That's one of the best obverses I've seen for it. Nevermind that the 18KN is very much commoner than the 19KN, it's still a beaut. I'd give it houseroom!! Now you're making me wish I'd gone higher. I've missed out on several coins that I'd really hoped to acquire in the last week and have that frustrating serial underbidder feeling! You could always go for this one only £700 Those proof pennies with the mirror finishes are a bugger to photograph

Are they really being purchased or just shilled up by the seller?

That is as maybe but as long as I can remember the two types have been described as "nose to S' and 'nose to VS' nose to VS being the scarcer and them being incorrectly described in Spinks. It's a bit like people using the colon gap to determine a 1926 ME penny as the BM is often weak or goes very early, it's much easier to look at the pointing of the I in DEI. As they say there's nothing queerer than folks.

Don't think you're missing anything - it looks like a bog-standard, perfectly ordinary, average, cleaned example of the Withdrawn Type 6d. Ah good. It's not just me then. I also notice he is trying to sell a much more common 4+D 1921 shilling as the scarce 3+D "nose to S". It's nose to VS that is the rarer one.

Well no one has yet in my opinion come up with a convincing counter argument to my previous state that the amount of toning and rate of toning is in direct relationship to the quantity of environmental damage. The heavier the toning the harsher the environment the coin has been keeps in. Just putting a coin away in an envelope although may be considered as protecting it could actually do more damage than leaving it in open air. I still maintain that although all coins will tone with age a lightly toned coin is better than a deeply tone coin, so we shouldn't be seeking out toning and equating it with quality.

How would you explain the fact that proof coins are usually more toned than non-proof? Surely proof coins would be better looked after than non-proofs, but tone more readily due to an interaction between the metal, the atmosphere and the material contained within the presentation case. Agreed. Proof coins that are in absolute mint state and have never left their sealed plastic tombs, can tone horribly as we all know from 1973 sets. Isn't that due to chemicals in the packaging.

Surely toning is just environmental damage, the more the toning the poorer the coin has been looked after. So a heavily toned coin is bad not good.

Both coins look to be struck without a collar. Not as uncommon as you would expect

Muppet alert. The guy even says in the text that it's a fake. Surely worth nothing. Altered date 1905 shilling

People come and go.When I joined wayback in 2004 there were mainly youngsters at school or just starting Uni. I suppose study ,girls etc have got in the way of coins. Girls getting in the way of coins. When I started collecting coins it was the stuff dreams were made of.

If memory serves me correctly this one has been tried before, maybe the same one.

Just a nine year reign, there's not so much of it around.

Two of my best buys have been in the March auctions. It could be that it's March that's the problem.

It looks as though only about half of the English single coins sold. One or two bargains there, especially the 1934 crown. wish I'd gone now.