1949threepence

Wide awake now, and wondering where all the action is.....

It's a quiet night. Just let sleeping cats lie.........

Well if I was a smoker, I'd buy a pack of Benson and HEDGES.

Only one left at £2k - wow. Buy now to avoid disappointment. Must be flying off the shelves at just £2k each.

The motto "Dem Feind Keine chance" translates as "the enemy has no chance". Probably one of his well known phrases. "Truppenteil" means part of the troops. I suspect we may have no literal translation. Hermann Duncker was....well Hermann Duncker

Yes, there was a programme with Michael Portillo on the gold tour.

Richard, you might also be interested in this post which I made on 24.10.18.

Get it verified by the RM first - then we can start talking about value. Might be a worn die. I think I can possibly just make out 2 0 0, but may be my imagination.

I think the top one is March 1968. I'd bet most are from that era.

Received a 5 question survey from e bay about a recent purchase I'd made, and whilst it's not worthy of a thread in itself, I thought I should mention it. The questionnaire was not about the item, but about the "delivery experience". One of the questions was "how good did the delivery make you feel. What positive feelings did you encounter?" (or words to that effect). I pointed out how inane the question was, and that it was a bog standard postal delivery, not some great emotional event. The tripe they come out with these days.

Yes, I find myself doing the same. You just wonder about the many hands they've passed through and tills they've been in. Not to mention the countless pockets and purses, as well as the places they've been spent. Actually, to a certain extent you also wonder about the high grade specimens. Were they specially saved by the collectors of their day, or did they become lost in some drawer or down the back of an old settee, only to emerge more than a hundred years later? I've a little personal theory on that one: I tend to think that if the edge is as lustrous as the faces of the coin, then they've been lost. If the edge is well toned as compared to the remainder of the coin, they've been collected, but have innumerable edge handling marks.

Let me try ETA - no problem here. Maybe issue has passed.

Yes, maybe it was a bit over the topiary. I'll start pruning back on what I say. Apologies for the shear outlandishness. .

I suppose after the hedge fund recipients have had their cut they can have a slap up meal with all the trimmings.

Well I'm hedging my bets on that one.

With no beating around the bush - or possibly just a privet arrangement between friends.

Most of the coins I've had from the US have been slabbed by NGC. The first thing I do is take a hammer to them.

The download has a load of gobbledygook on it.

No doubt someone will recognise and claim them fairly soon.

Nobody's going to pay that. Some of these sellers are truly deluded.

It's a pity the reverse isn't as well preserved as the obverse. Judging by the hair detail, that penny was lost to the ground after not many years in circulation.

Well they may do so already, but even if not, don't forget that Swann is no longer around, so when they do need new cabinets, they''ll undoubtedly come from Rob Davis.

But they do tout themselves as a company which doesn't tolerate fakes/a genuine common coin, masquerading as a genuine rare coin. So to that extent they are, by definition, holding themselves responsible for the sale of imitations. So clearly, because of their obvious lack of subject knowledge, they can only ever be reactive to the complaints of others. - ergo: they can get it badly wrong. Not the least because if only one person complains, they won't have a clue whether that person is just attempting to convince the seller to alter the description. I agree that buyers should be careful and you only have to look at my motto to appreciate that. But that doesn't detract from e bay being a huge unwieldy concern which possibly takes the side of buyers too quickly and has no invested knowledge with coins, or anything else. So in that sense, what I said was absolutely correct.

I would venture that it's extremely unlikely you'll ever get a definitive answer to that question. We know he died in 2007, and had continued working until Parkinson's Disease prevented him from doing so. Given that Parkinson's can follow a long drawn out course, it's probable that he didn't just suddenly stop, but gradually wound down. The above is an extract from a tribute article about Swann in The Times, 21.7.07. Incidentally, you've probably cottoned on anyway by now, in view of subsequent posts, but in answer to your question of 3.8.18, I'd say the cabinet you posted was made by Rob Davis who does now make cabinets by appointment to the Royal Mint. I've got one myself, and given the superb quality of his work, it's absolutely no surprise to me that he's landed such a plum contract.

Did anybody ever get a 1992 single market 50p in their change. I know there was only a few years window of opportunity, but was just wondering. Needless to say, I never did.