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Very interesting - £9k offered in 1969. That's £136K adjusted for inflation to the present day. Wonder who Spink acquired it from in 1956, and what the full story behind that is. Equally, I wonder who has it now. Thanks for the article, John.

Yes, nice one Ian. Well played that man !

I sent PFK an e mail with regard to commission, and got the following reply, to their credit, very quickly:- So it looks like "juice" for the lot winner is 20.4%.

Thanks Richard. My only other point is regarding information on this link to PFK's info page for the buyer What exactly is a "paddle number", and does it need to be obtained in advance of the bid. Again, unclear. If I make a "successful" bid, I don't want any unpleasant surprises post auction.

Also looked on easy live auction.com and there is a gap in auctions between 8th and 10th August?

Thanks Richard. Still some nice stuff left. The "additional fees" are noted as:- "Commission 24% including VAT/sales tax" "VAT/sales tax on hammer 20%" Not 100% clear what this means. I'm hoping it doesn't mean a 44% whammy on hammer price for the buyer. Although I assume it means just 24% for the buyer.

Indeed. I'd forgotten that photography is not his strong point

Although in fairness I'd strongly speculate that the vast majority of high grade coins inherited any fingerprints they have, from a time shortly after they were minted and briefly in circulation - ordinary handling by people who were simply using them as money, as opposed to the items of value we now treat them as.

Not so much a "worst offering", but certainly something I see a lot of on e bay, and it really grinds my gears. Sellers photographing the coins whilst holding them in their hands, with the potential resultant transfer of oils etc from the hands onto the coin. I'd have expected better from this seller especially as it's otherwise quite a nice coin.

Hmm, that's what I thought. Moreover, that the same principle applied to carbon spots. Although in this post from December 2011, I was told to expect the carbon spots in a slabbed MS65 1888 penny, to grow over the years. For reference, 5½ years later, there's no detectable change. ETA: Some very interesting and helpful posts about verd here, although not in relation to slabbed silver.

Or maybe - for whatever reason - the Copthorne collection on Colin Cooke's website, just didn't attract the kind of international interest it would have done at dnw, Spink or LCA. I think I got a bargain with a near BU F14 at just £1500 plus juice. Only two bidders for that coin.

That's actually very true. Obtaining the rare varieties is a long slow process, and obviously with increased rarity comes an inevitable compromise on quality, as the high grades just aren't available, even assuming you had the cash to pay for them. With that said, I've noticed one phenomenon which isn't entirely clear to me, and that is even with the rarest coins, such as those on your rarest pennies website, Richard, there always seem to be one or two in each variety, which have somehow survived the over 100 years time span, in superb condition. Maybe the F27, F90 & F103, excepted. With less than 20, that's somewhat surprising. Does it indicate that the rarity in variety was spotted, by someone, long before Freeman spotted them? ETA: Although you'd have thought the F90 would have been spotted as a rarity, right off the block, as it's not exactly difficult to miss at first glance.

Haven't seen it Pete. Is it in the August Coin News?

Great news & thanks John. Never had an LCA catalogue, so no clear idea of what was left unsold afterwards (apart from the F30 I bought post auction)

Very, very true.

Yes, I'd definitely say a die flaw as well.

Better keep it quiet then...........

Yep, exactly my thought !!!

Cheers Peck. I was initially torn. On the one hand I really wanted a new kitchen as my existing one looked bloody awful. On the other, I saw it as an expensive and inconvenient operation. But a visit to a colleague's house, where the kitchen was smart and immaculate, kind of embarrassed me into action. There was no way I could, without shame, have returned the invitation. Now it's finished, I'm very pleased I got it done. Good luck with your bathroom conversion to a wet room. Bathrooms aren't as expensive, as a rule.

Can 't advise you I'm afraid, except the usual, like re-boot your laptop, which I've no doubt you've already done. All I can say is that when the site was re-vamped a couple of years or so ago, there were a whole stack of weird technical issues which arose, many of them seemingly related to different devices. The only other thing you could do, is to copy and paste the message you want to quote, directly into the normal message box, and go from there. Just a thought. I'm not sure whether or not it would alert the poster you'd quoted when they logged on again, but at least you would have quoted them.

Well worth it. I have used mine over and over again.

I got an AA01 yesterday, "AA01 385191". Spent it already

The other admin person listed in the staff directory is "Scottish Money", who hasn't made an appearance on here for over a year, since 12th June 2016. Also, as you indicate, Matt seems to have lost interest, for the time being at least, or maybe he's busy with other things.

I never realised that "Norweb" was an actual surname. It sounds like the description for a regional gas or electric concern

Don't know - is the vendor mixing it up with "impaired proof"?