Peckris

Not sure I understand you Rob? The presence of new posts is - as it has always been - indicated by a dark coloured folder against the forum name, instead of a pale colour. Once in a new post, I notice (YAY) that there is now a "Next unread topic" button adjacent to the "Back to ......" button, so there's no need to clear darker coloured topics, it can all be done from within each topic without having to go back out to the topic list. YAY. This has been discussed before - a couple months ago. Some use the icons to tell them what status the posts are, others don't know, or can't be bothered to find out what they mean and just go on the date and time of the last post. I obviously fall in the latter group, as once a post is read, you know what it says. But that means you have to remember what time you last read that particular forum! (And there's a dozen of them..) There's no way I could remember that so I always used the folder colour to tell me. Now though, there's a nifty little trick in this new layout : if you're at the last post in a particular topic, there's a little "Next unread topic -->" button, which disappears when you've read all the unread topics. Nice!

"Posted a day ago" - I hope that means 24 hours, not a second more, not a second less

Hasn't the Queen been on all banknotes for the past 60 some years? Nah, it's John McEnroe

The reverse especially has a kind of 'cast' look to it.

Not I.

It does - YAY

It does seem to work. Clicking on the image took me to the bbc web page you quoted. Me too.

Not sure I understand you Rob? The presence of new posts is - as it has always been - indicated by a dark coloured folder against the forum name, instead of a pale colour. Once in a new post, I notice (YAY) that there is now a "Next unread topic" button adjacent to the "Back to ......" button, so there's no need to clear darker coloured topics, it can all be done from within each topic without having to go back out to the topic list. YAY.

Just be patient...

My first thoughts are that they have got the grades on 3 and 4 the wrong way round. It would be deeply interesting to find out what their thinking was. (There may be a new forum format, but I still make the mistake of not noticing there's a whole extra page until after I've posted at the bottom of Page 1).

I pressed the "like" button on your post and got an error message - "You have reached your quota of positive votes for the day" Some things haven't changed!!

Oy!!! Why does my user details feature the phrase "0 warning points", while no-one else has an equivalent rating? 'Snot fair!! (Drums heels on floor).

Ditto here, using Safari on a Mac. And IMAGE UPLOAD IS NOW WORKING! Yay. (Just to celebrate something other than the bl00dy royal birth).

For this read "The Royal Mint is delighted for the exciting opportunity to issue shedloads of overpriced commemorative crap"

(testing image upload - ignore..) YAY. It works!

oooh. Nice new look! Apart from the pages loading rather slowly, I like it

Is $8:49 (including postage) really the bullion value of a 1743 farthing... um, Australian sixpence... um, whatever he is selling?

Fingers crossed...

While you're on it Chris, can you sort out the "not being able to upload images" thing too? It's very frustrating, and I really DON'T want a Photobucket account with all the xtra hassle that involves!

[waves to all our Australian members ]

There are/were no scarcity ratings in the Standard Catalogue, apart from the occasional Extremely/Excessively Rare when they haven't got a recent price and it's known to be very rare. You may be thinking of the ESC ratings devised by Raynor? As far as I remember, only at R3 and above are these "significantly rare", though I realise that's something of a subjective rating. But from R4 they say: R4 11-20 examples known R5 5-10 R6 3-4 R7 1-2

Mmmm .. chocolate! And .. how the heck does anything confectionary related last from Christmas Rob? There must be something wrong with you. In my house it's an hour from gift unwrapping, tops! Simple. The hammered gold isn't melting here, though it is hot. All the chocolate however, is. That's why I keep all mine in the fridge

Not quite right, Peck. The only reason you are directed to the PhotoBucket site, is because that is where TG hosted his screenshot. The original webpage is here and, in my opinion, saleroom.com is one of the best auction sites out there. Bah. I think that's my fault guys. I must have somehow picked up an active link rather than an one from photobucket when I couldn't get the usual direct upload to work. Sorry! That's not what I meant to happen ... obviously! I wish Chris would fix this. I feel marooned not being able to upload images

[rant] Bl00dy useless auction site - you can't see the reverse without being diverted to the egregious Photobucket site. As for a grade of GVF, who are they trying to kid?? [/rant] But it's clearly one of the forgeries you found, and I reckon you did the right thing, contacting the auctioneers. As for other sales, all we can do is sit here saying over and over : "Buyers Beware!!" and hope that people see us.

We saw that sting on "Fake Britain" a while back, didn't we?