Peckris

Dave - that's a useful link but you above all people know that you can link directly to pictures without sending people to the site in question. Just copy and paste the relevant Photofuckit 'forum URL' and Rabbie's your uncle...

My first Motability car was a Clio and I had absolutely no problems with it at all. Nice little cars. My second was a Corsa, and didn't offer half of what the Clio offered, thought both were extremely reliable. (I would say the Vauxhall was less well made).

I'm on my cell phone.. small screen, however I concur...I see nothing to indicate a beaded border on either side... The reverse is toothed and the obverse appears to be the same... I can't determine the Freeman number from the images though... If I was forced to hazard a guess though, I would lean towards an F-13.... Poor quality coin and small screen conspire against me... Interesting views. The reverse definitely looks beaded to me.

Just adding to what Dave said : you bought it in the first place because it was a "dream coin", therefore by definition those are (i) going to be the most desirable coins in your collection, but (ii) the last ones you would actually sell.

I don't personally, but there are other members here who are signed up to several other forums (this is my only one).

Your pictures have used 5Kb of your 500Kb allowance!! Could you post larger pictures please?

Praline Next we have number four, 'Crunchy Frog'. Milton Ah, yes. Praline Am I right in thinking there's a real frog in here? Milton Yes. A little one. Praline What sort of frog? Milton A dead frog. Praline Is it cooked? Milton No. Praline What, a raw frog? Superintendent Parrot looks increasingly queasy. Milton We use only the finest baby frogs, dew-picked and flown from Iraq, cleansed in the finest quality spring water, lightly killed, and then sealed in a succulent Swiss quintuple smooth treble cream milk chocolate envelope, and lovingly frosted with glucose. Praline That's as may be, but it's still a frog! Milton What else? Praline Well don't you even take the bones out? Milton If we took the bones out it wouldn't be crunchy would it? Praline Superintendent Parrot ate one of those. Parrot Excuse me a moment. (exits hurriedly) Praline Well, the Superintendent thought it was an almond whirl. People won't expect there to be a frog in there. They're bound to think it's some sort of mock frog. Milton (insulted) Mock frog? We use no artificial preservatives or additives of any kind! Praline Nevertheless, I must warn you that in future you should delete the words 'crunchy frog', and replace them with the legend, 'crunchy raw unboned real dead frog' if you want to avoid prosecution.

Hmm. I can't see that at all. I do see a few very small areas where the toning has ?rubbed? away revealing the silver beneath. But wear? I just can't see it. Remember that Victoria YH hair detail has to be viewed at quite a precise angle to see it fully.

Oh, she knows now. Believe me, she knows..

And Now... No. 3 The Larch THE LARCH And now...

Nice designs, but this isn't perhaps the best place to sell them : we are mostly concerned with predecimal, i.e. older, coins.

Harrumph. I've been back several hours, you know...

eBay is certainly a problem area for fakes, especially from China, but do bear in mind that such coins can occur anywhere. Even reputable dealers have been taken in by extremely high-quality repros of - e.g. - Northumberland shillings or gothic florins. As an original genuine coin was used in their manufacture, only by comparing two examples with the identical minor blemishes of the original could you be absolutely certain you had a fake. It's a huge problem, which eBay has not caused but has certainly exacerbated.

The nearest you'd come to that is from someone who buys scrap silver and has just bought a whole load of Victoriana - but they would of course be rubbish grades. Buying a bulk lot of decent-to-high-grade Victorian crowns and d/florins would be a once in a blue moon opportunity. Good luck looking though.

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Yes. One of the people mentioned above was the person I was referring to (allegedly..) in my post a couple of weeks ago. I won't say who, for fear of legal repercussions on Chris, so Don't Jump To conclusions.

Wasn't he a weightlifter?

Interesting, enough to make me change my mind. They certainly look as though they are the same as the Nicholson examples, but if push comes to shove, I'd tend to agree with Peck and say this particular variety is probably down to die wear/damage.

It's a very nice example, so if that doesn't work you might be immune to the attractions of Roman! It's an early Empire sestertius, and those are usually in higher demand than the silver denarius (probably because they were 'working currency' and it's harder to find them in decent condition). For me the problem is one of understanding the series. The number of emperors is bewildering, as is the number of mints and designs, even for a single emperor. Then there's the denominations and the metal used, and it all becomes a big melting pot of uncertainty. Add in the possibilities for fakes and for me it's a minefield I don't think my poor brain can handle. Nice progressive English coinage, one king/queen after the other, nicely dated or dateable plus a range of denominations that I can understand works for me. Somewhere I 've got a bag of raw Roman finds that I have tried to attribute after cleaning, but which I gave up on as my old head became completely befuddled by it all. This is one area where Spinks are very good - their catalogue is ideal for a Roman type collector, as they only list the most common and typical types for each emperor, in each denomination. Plus they list the emperors in date order. I think the hardest thing is to actually determine which ruler is which from the coin itself, but once you've done that, the possibilities for building up a good type collection of Roman is virtually limitless.

It's a very nice example, so if that doesn't work you might be immune to the attractions of Roman! It's an early Empire sestertius, and those are usually in higher demand than the silver denarius (probably because they were 'working currency' and it's harder to find them in decent condition).

Yes, I bought (only once!) from a certain "big time" Coin News advertiser. Both items seemed absolute bargains - a 1797 twopence EF, and an 1854 penny GEF. The first was VF (I already had one AVF) and the second was NEF at best. The prices charged were probably fair for the actual coins, but they weren't the advertised grades!

Ridiculous. It's a lovely coin for type collectors, but the 1754 is pretty common having been continuously minted way past that date (same with 1758 shillings).

Damn, you beat me to it JPK - I just saw that it's Trajan! It doesn't look like an obvious repro, they are usually a bit better grade and usually have an incuse stamp to show the manufacturer. But it's not beyond possibility.

Very interesting - I definitely see the 5 in the first example, so that's a new variety? That first one I would definitely say was GF though the second barely makes Fine in my opinion.

"I've got a worse coin than you, na na ni na na" "Haven't. Mine's worse, so there!" "Huh, soon make mine worse than yours. Spit in your eye." "Your mom makes sh*t apple pie" "Does not." "Does so."