Peckris

You really aren't a child of the digital world, are you Rob! Anyone can have a Google account, which comes with free email address. It's not INSTEAD OF your existing provider, it's AS WELL AS. You don't even have to use the provided email address, but you can use the free online storage and especially convert your docs to PDFs. Googlemail is webmail, i.e. you access it via your web browser, not your email program. Microsoft provide their own version of it - Windows Live - complete with free storage also, so theoretically you could have umpteen webmail addresses, each one with free email addresses (which you don't have to use), free online storage, and in the case of Google, a suite of online office programs. Having converted your Word docs to pdf then you can just re-download them again if you want, to print them off.

Picture posting update: The allowance is now 500k per post, up from 150k - however the same principles apply, especially if you're trying to upload a 5MB camera photo!

http://www.predecimal.com/forum/topic/7880-posting-pics/

Well yes - that's essentially bankruptcy. If that's what was meant, I'd have understood straight away.

In future, assuming you have a (free!) Google Mail account, you can upload a Word document and it can be converted to PDF form.

The explanation could well be here : http://word.mvps.org/faqs/drwgrphcs/invisiblegraphics.htm

Eh? You're trying to tell me it's against the law for a UK business to make a loss?? Ok, I plead guilty. Bring the handcuffs round now.

Without seeing pictures it's difficult (a scan would be fine), but your penny sounds very much like mine. I just had a quick look and I still have the picture : Do you think that's it? Bear in mind that this is not at all unusual for the copper series and despite Michael's sterling work on identifying the variants there are few rarities for this date. Numerals were often recut / re-stamped, and so you get what look like classic 'overdates', but they're not really.

There appears to be an exergue line with SOMETHING under it - if you could somehow narrow down what that 'something' is, you might be able to get nearer an ID?

A very good point. For most of the 80s and 90s - when I bought most of my collection - Seaby/Spink would always say in their 'state of the market' introduction that in spite of a few gains the British coin market was undervalued, "as it has been for years". It had to correct itself at some point, though I feel that eBay has helped push that correction too far the other way. My hunch is that early milled is about right, but there is scope for reductions in modern coins.

Before the 1816 Recoinage, coins had to be worth their face value in metal bullion. As Rob says, the value of silver was volatile during George III's reign, which is quite probably the main reason why there was so little regal silver issued before 1816 (the 1787 shillings and sixpences were issued to BoE customers rather than a general issue to meet demand; the counterstamped Spanish reales were an unofficial measure and went no way to meet the shortage of halfcrowns, shillings, and sixpences; the token issues of 1811 onwards were only temporary 'stop gaps'.)

Why are you smiling? Scotland didn't even qualify ... as per usual. Was there any point in England Qualifying? They were embarassing. I smiled due to my adopted country winning the tournament You live in Germamy now? When did you move?

Definitely not KAW - the Greeks didn't have a W! I think it's a partly corroded N. "ASI" might be the abbreviation of a city-state. Don't forget the Greeks and Macedonians spread far and wide. It could, for example, be Sicily, though I know nothing about Sicilian coins or even history.

Why are you smiling? Scotland didn't even qualify ... as per usual.

That would be difficult. The denarius is largely a solid silver coin, but the later antoninianus varied from being a proper silver alloy, to being a bronze coin merely 'washed' in silver which - like seuk's GIII fakes - comes off fairly readily; however, the antoniniani are genuine issues and the quantity of silver in them depends very much on how much money the emperor needed to raise at the coinage's expense, for either his personal pleasure and aggrandisement, or for necessary wars. As I said - buy from reliable sources until you know more about this subject. (I'm afraid I'm not an expert in the field!)

The first 2 coins look fairly typical of late Greek / Macedonian types. The legend on the reverse of the first is in Greek, and the first word ends ASI (DASI? RASI?), while the second word begins KA and probably followed by N. I have no ideas about the third. I hope this is of some help.

Your life ain't gonna be worth living for a while - Germany have just scored towards the end of extra time.

Within reason Well, look at it this way ... an investor has a $50 million portfolio. They put just 2% into alternatives. That is still $1 million. Sorry, I must have dropped my wallet with that 50 million in. We're talking real world Jaggy, which means for people who do a regulär job and have a mortgage and other outstanding Bills to pay monthly I've every sympathy with your POV Dave. Sadly though, it's the few with well-lined pockets who actually form and dictate the market, at least, at the highest end of quality and rarity.

Close to the original design, or a laughable approximation?

What's on the reverse?

No, that would feature an obverse of Andy Coulson (effigy phone-hacked by Rebekah Brooks ) and a reverse depicting a grave with an episode of Strictly Come Dancing being filmed right on top of it.

Yeah, right! About what we expect from The Daily Mail.

The major auction houses and slabbing companies should be playing a part here. Each time they reject a coin as fake, pictures should be stored in their online archives clearly labelled and searchable as such. What are the legalities about owning a fake or submitting it. Could the TPG before returning it take a metal punch and stamp a great big F in the middle of it. There's nothing illegal about owning a fake, and of course there's nothing illegal about sending a fake to a TPG. However, as TPGs' reputation rests on their 'authentication', you would think they have, or should have, an up to date archive of all known forgeries. And if they do have, it should be made available to everyone. Perhaps, like the BNTA, they have a misguided vested interest in keeping the information to themselves

Unfortunately, you have one of the commonest Victorian copper farthings, dated 1853 ... in shocking condition! Even if it was a scarce 1863 (which - from 1860 - is a different size, metal, and design), it would be worth little in that condition.

The major auction houses and slabbing companies should be playing a part here. Each time they reject a coin as fake, pictures should be stored in their online archives clearly labelled and searchable as such. What are the legalities about owning a fake or submitting it. Could the TPG before returning it take a metal punch and stamp a great big F in the middle of it. There's nothing illegal about owning a fake, and of course there's nothing illegal about sending a fake to a TPG. However, as TPGs' reputation rests on their 'authentication', you would think they have, or should have, an up to date archive of all known forgeries. And if they do have, it should be made available to everyone.