1949threepence

I'm not with PCGS, but is there any way you can get back to the part of the organisation which gave you the complimentary tickets, and explain what happened. See if they can help. Alternatively, you could try their feedback facility or send an e mail to info@PCGS.com. As a matter of interest, why did your coins have to go to Paris to be graded? What's the set up with PCGS? Do they not have a London office? It's a bit of a joke that the Paris staff can't speak English. What a shabby outfit.

A fair number of penny enthusiasts on here

Pleased you got it sorted anyway

In fact flush the crap away !!! As far as polish vs natural lustre. You honestly won't need that greater depth of experience to be able to distinguish between the two at a single glance, WC.

Stands and applauds

Indeed. You only have to click "online users", at the top of the page, to realise that.

Yes, as far as I can tell, it's just plain field.

Unfortunately, I don't have the facilty on this machine, to do that.

Still curious to know about this angled bar. Or is it two parallel lines which give an optical illusion of a raised surface area. Anybody got thoughts on it?

Yes, I should have remembered that. Here is the extract:-

That's a good point, actually. Quite possible.

No, that's an interesting one, Ian. Looks like a bit has been added on. Metal flaw of some description?

When you upload to photobucket, as Nick says, there should be a "direct link" - highlight and then right click and copy. Then when postin on here, click on the symbol above, to the right of the "underline" - it looks a bit like a chain link. Right click in the box where it says URL (disregard the greyed out text) and paste your direct link from photobucket into it, then click "insert into post". That has got to do it.

Most decent websites have "backwards compatability", meaning they cater for all users. So that when the design is modernised, users with older systems are still able to access as usual.

Unsure of why Tom is experiencing so many obstacles. Perhaps, as Nick says, it is indeed a page coding issue. Maybe @Nordle11 can help. With regard to Stuart's scrolling, I had the same problem on my phone, until I started using the forum in landscape instead of portrait. Now it's a lot easier. Make sure auto rotate is enabled first, though.

I had issues with posting pics a few months ago, and for a time used image shack or tiny pic, posting the link to that. What I do now, and I know it's a bit convoluted, but it works for me, is to photograph the coin with my tablet, then e mail the photo to my PC and save it to pictures. I then import it onto here using the "choose files" clicky below. Doing that, I never need to re-size.

No, I just got the one invoice for 4 items, 2 coins and 2 books. But I did get all 4 lot tickets, with full item description and original bidding parameters added.

In addition to the members we have on here, who are very reputable dealers, I'm going to put a plug in for Colin Cooke who in my opinion is right up amongst the very top few in the country. Over the years I've bought a lot of stock from Colin Cooke, most of it at a very reasonable price, and I've never been disappointed. They've also held exclusively on line auctions, all of which were highly successful, the last of which was for one of our members here, who decided to auction off his outstandingly good penny collection last year. The original Colin Cooke sadly passed away in April 2005, but the business was carried on, and most recently, its manager Neil Paisley landed the plum post of managing director of Baldwins. Also well worth looking through the collections Colin Cooke has auctioned over the years, if you're a fan of the denominations involved.

Great to read about something so decent.

Almost beggars belief that people are so brain bendingly idiotic as to fall for this crap. The valuable AM32's were confined to just four consecutively numbered notes, two of which have already been found. It's not even like a lottery ticket, as we already know what the exact serial numbers are.

Course it is. Cheers Pete. I was a bit slow on the uptake there.

Collected my LCA won lot from the Post Office today. Freeman 106, part of lot 65 from the Michael Freeman Christies sale of 23.10.84, with his ticket. No idea what the P1722 is on the ticket. Only VF, but nevertheless very pleased to have won an ex Freeman at the relatively low hammer price of £90.

It won't be a bank mark. Somebody has just hammered a number punch onto the coin at some point, probably to try it out.

Indeed. I've never had any complaints either. My coin arrived today, but unfortunately I was out so will have to collect from the Post Office on Monday.

Got a nice e mail from LCA today, informing me that my lot was on its way. Together with the tracking number. Never had that before from them.