Gary D

The people I've just gone with would charge about £42 for £7000 cover

I think that's the point Gary is making. Not all pictures give you the option - when you right click there are only about two options available, neither of them Save As. I know something is wrong when I can't click and drag the picture onto my desktop, which in Safari I can do with any normal pictures. Interesting - you're judging on the colour? In other respects it looks pretty good to me. If you look very closely at the R in EDWARDVS where the down stroke meets the loop there is a break in the loop. Both the fakes I own and have seen have this break.

Nice coin you have there Gary. Interesting that with both our coins the reverse is a lot weaker than the observe.

I've just changed mine to Stamp Insurance Service who us Sterling. Previously I was with Lloyds who again used Sterling. The main difference was that Lloyds and many others try and rap it all up with your house contens insurance under a specified item. I wanted the freedom of having the collection completely seperate from the house insurance although the total premium is very similar. Gary

Another fake halfcrown for sale Link

I do hope that your book includes the 1946 die flaw O N E ' penny? I managed to get Spink to include it in the Standard Catalogue, but I'm still working on the less-convinced Chris Perkins to get it put in CCGB ! I also bought a 1966 penny a few years back that has an 'extra wave' crashing against the lighthouse, while at the same time I managed to get a 1915 'recessed ear' penny in high grade. I'm told there are two 1937 reverses, but as they both look exactly the same at first glance, and are both very common, I find them totally unsexy As are all the minuscule variations on Elizabeth II ship halfpenny reverses. ("Oooh there's a tiny difference in the size of the ship, but you should be able to spot the difference - one has 1958 on the reverse, the other has 1959" ) There are two 1937 reverses and two observes. I have three combinations in both currency and proof. Still looking for the forth.

I've just had it valued to add to my insurance and it came back as EF rev and GEF obv, insurance value £1400, I payed about £800 of the bay just over a year ago. Gary

Yes I don't know why he only put it up for a short time as he emailed me to tell me he had done it. I've notice that with the new style picture gallery that you often can't save from a right click. Sometimes it works and others it's not an available option. Couldn't be bothered to do a screen grab, wish I had now. Gary

Many pre 1953 coins didn't have the queens head on them. One that does spring to mind it he 1953 crown.

I have a 1940 penny that tones a silvery colour, I wonder what would cause that?

Perhaps we should have a poll to see how many members have a F169. For that matter a 164A and 192A as well

This is the example I've had for just over a year now.

I asked him the question and it's definitly a ME. He put up the reverse for a short period but I didn't look close enough to see if it was small or large. My guess would be small. The problem with a lot of ebay pictures now is that you can't right click and save as.

It would be nice to see the other side, definitly not 1921, 1922now that would be interesting.

Just a suggestion, perhaps you need to compare the flan size not the finished coin size. The half sovereign may by slightly bigger but have less metal in the design, deeper rims etc.

Yes, yes, yes. Agree with all of that. The asking price for anything slabbed seems to be astronomical compared with the market. Use your own eyes and refuse to pay ridiculous prices for coins. For 'slab' read 'bubble'. Undated 20p anyone. Now one of those in a slab ooooooh

The best place I've found that lists this sort of stuff is Michael Goulby's website (michael-coins.co.uk) Look in GB coin list

The date numerals look a bit thin compared to the two I have, especially the loop of the 5

I was referring to the buyer, but I did very nearly message the seller to make that very point! At the time, there were approaching 1000 of these coins on eBay! I was refering to the buyer also. Someone who has that amount of cash isn't going to be stupid enough to spend it of the 20p

A little bird tells me that winning bid of £5,100 isn't going to be paid ... I see the winning bidder has a big fat zero feedback

I'm yet to find a 1903 type 2, everyone I've looked at has been a type 2a, which has made me wonder.

That's where the radio controlled clock comes in handy. I've found that if you make your bid on the 2nd button, with 12 seconds to go, you'll usually get in with just 3 or 4 seconds left, depending on how fast your browser is. I didn't bid on this coin in the end, though. Was going to, but getting too close to the end of the month. Payday is not until Friday Sorry you weren't successful, Peckris. Oh well, he obviously wanted it bad, so good luck to him. At least I made him pay what it's worth. As for the radio controlled clock - that's not needed! eBay have introduced this cool facility for your Watched items, that counts down the clock in real time and updates bids and tells you your status, without you having to refresh your browser. I was at the cinima at the time with the mrs earning browney points, just used hamersnipe. There was a time when I considered Spink as the high limit but from past experience it doesn't work with ebay anymore. But then still £32 cheaper than the "buy it now" one and looks to be a similar grade.

You don't get £7,000,000 by being that stupid. I notice the number of coin for sale is dropping as quick as the prices now. How can someone sell multiple coins that are supposed to be rare, just the fact they have several makes them not rare. Give it a week and it will all be a distant memory

I've had a Peter Nichols Coronet for about 3 years now. I had the trays customised to suit my collection 1900-1967 Farthing to Crown. I orininally worked out all the varieties that I knew of but have had to get a couple of extra trays made as more have come along and I have run out of space. I'm just in the process of having a couple more done. As to security my cabinet is attached to a wall eye with a computer type security cable. I fixed the plate to the bottom of the cabinet by bolting through to the inside. I also have a snatch alarm attached so that if anyone picked up the cabinet, he'd have to be a big lad, the alarm would pull apart before the cable became tight. I also have a brother who is a bank manager so if we go away for more than a weekend the collection goes into his bank vault. Something I would like and haven't solved the problem yet is to get some kind of flight type case that the trays would slide into for tranportation, a cardboard box is a bit crude to carry a 5 figure collection around in. Anyway I never miss an opportunity to show my collection so I apologize to anyone who is tired of seeing it.

The giveaway is the obverse legend and rim (I agree if it was 'in hand' I could tell in an instant). The rim is quite high, but the clincher is the distance from the legend to the rim. On Type 2's it is always further away - the Type 1 legend is about 1/3 to 1/2 as close. That's worrying about morgan9red. I just bought a BU florin which the photo suggests really is - I hope I don't have to send it back as it cost me not far from book price. You're definitely right. I've just compared, side by side, my 1920 & 1921 shillings, and the legend in the 1920 is palpably closer to the rim, than my (type 2) 1921. You can see the difference if you compare the two links above (the one you posted and the one I posted) I bow to your suporior knowledge, I wasn't aware of that tip.