Peckris

Must have rolled back from the pub, nothing on telly, "Ok, let's see what I have in this drawer I can put on eBay.."

Well ... ok! Welcome to the forums

"Quite rare and very collectible" Well, the first part's true - I've never seen such a tatty specimen before not even in my change at the pub on a Friday night..

I once had a collector of modern proof and Royal Mint sets telling me that he expected to make a profit on his purchases and sell them at auction well above bullion / scrap value. Apart from the odd set in recent years, the vast majority i've seen are below their RRP. It's a bit - and i say a bit - like 50's and 60's diecasts. If you're lucky enough to have them in good boxed condition then you could sell them to collectors for a tidy sum but it's far too late in the game to be buying them now and expecting to make a retirement fund from them. Most of these recent oddities just leave me non-plussed. That thing about the £2 coin and the Queen's earrings...although one with the portrait on the date side recently made £25 on Ebay Absolutely spot on. And it's down to Spinks that these modern commems are listed with artificially high values; their catalogue never shows them at any less than issue price 'plus something for inflation'. Yet collectors and dealers who attend auctions know full well that you can (for example) pick proof sets up for half list price or even less. The so-called secondary market dictates the true value of these modern issues, and despite supposedly 'low issue numbers' in the case of piedforts and silver proofs, there are more than enough collectors to satisfy demand. The Royal Mint once tried to set up a 'Collectors Club' for their tat - I don't know if it's still in existence. Still, I suppose if even a small fraction of those got turned on to 'proper' coins, it perhaps wasn't a complete waste of time.

"Gang member" or something. Other exciting credits include Tom The Pig Man, Turnpike Keeper and King's Man. Hey, it's a living. Plus he gets to hang out with people like Martin Scorsese, Ridley Scott, John Boorman and the cast of Casualty. Well, at least the first three are impressive!

Amazing comparison shots. Only the two roofs and the mini-spire show it's the same location.

Also the broken R in EDWARDVS...

That dealer sounds suspicious to me. From what I can see of it (the pictures are too small), it could well be a replica, which isn't a forgery as such but neither is it genuine. The surface looks like it is the wrong metal, and there's a suspicious triangular 'cut out' on the obverse ("heads") side between 8 and 9 o'clock where the circle of beads is. And on the reverse there is a shamrock shape to the left just above the centre line. Either of those might contain the initials WRL which stands for Westair Reproductions Limited. If sthat' what you see there, then it's definitely a replica and not worth very much. Certainly not £30.

Guilty as charged

They key to this shiller's success is that they don't seem to win the item - and so they're at risk of a negative as much as a normal seller. Yes, but 90% is really really low. They couldn't be left that by their 'owner', so who's leaving such a bad feedback score?

He'd do it more often apparently, but he tyres rather easily... Obviously a real sadd(l)o... He's a bi-sick-le freak... Have the police got anyone in the frame for it? Does he use a condom, or a puncture repair kit? What kind of bikes does he go for? Mounting bikes, apparently... BMX = Bicycle Masturbation seX He volunteers as a bicycle pump...

You've done well there. The coin now has good eye appeal. I'd rate it GEF/AUNC, not bad for a scarce date.

I'm afraid I'm not familiar with wear patterns on Oz coins, but I'd say that particular coin wouldn't make EF imo. GVF to NEF would be my personal ballpark.

You want to sell some? The use of 'no' for 'know' is a specialised eBay spelling, we understand (as in "I no nothing about coins...").

Yet that bidder has a pathetic feedback score of only 90% - how is that possible? No-one is going to be mad enough to give their own shiller(s) a negative feedback, surely?

That's the one. Close enough to Birmingham, but apparently it was felt throughout England and Wales. 5.1 on the scale.

I would rate it GEF myself judging from the top of his ear. It's definitely improved - the next step would be a 10 second dip in Goddards, if you decide that's the way to go.

Right. The two you've uploaded here - the 1930 and the 1966 - wouldn't get you more than pence after all the effort of putting them up for sale. If you wanted an idea of how much modern coins are worth, you could do worse than invest a few £ in Chris Perkins' "Collectors' Coins GB" which is advertised here (he runs this forum), or you can get the Kindle version for even less. That gives the current market value of all British coins from 1797 (copper) and 1816 (silver and gold) in various grades, and lists any number of the scarce/rare varieties. Hiya gonna get the book you suggested,i have that may different old coins i cant possibly put them all on here,bit i was wondering im using photobucket just now and can i upload all the pics of my coins imto one albumn? then post the link to it so you can see all of them? x Possibly - but I personally loathe Photobucket so someone else here will advise about that.

You can - there's always the option to download a pdf in your browser, it's part of the Flash implementation.

Can you post it, or PM me a link to it e.g. on Dropbox? I'd love to see that!

He was very baby-faced was our Keith. I reckon once kitted out to the 9s in wimple and head-dress and the works, no-one would have been any the wiser. After all, nuns aren't people you stare at wondering if they're famous rock drummers, are they?

I remember one in Birmingham about 25 years ago. Caused buildings to sway quite noticeably. The computers - in a hermetically sealed air-conditioned environment - went down, of course.

I got it straight away

Right. The two you've uploaded here - the 1930 and the 1966 - wouldn't get you more than pence after all the effort of putting them up for sale. If you wanted an idea of how much modern coins are worth, you could do worse than invest a few £ in Chris Perkins' "Collectors' Coins GB" which is advertised here (he runs this forum), or you can get the Kindle version for even less. That gives the current market value of all British coins from 1797 (copper) and 1816 (silver and gold) in various grades, and lists any number of the scarce/rare varieties.

We all know coins have been cleaned in the past. Some tooled to bring out detail. Holes plugged. It happened 100 years ago and it happens today. And with coins to which these things were done 50, 100 years ago, it's part of their numismatic history. Whether we like it and can live with it is, I think, a personal decision. As is whether to 'undo' the damage. My point was that charging to remove a bit of red wax that would probably flick off with a paintbrush and to then use that as an example of a supposedly desirable service shows a complete lack of understanding of an important (to me at least) area of numismatics (ie; provenance). It shows a different mindset. One that I'd prefer not to become all prevalent. Though I may be too late in that respect! I see the point you're making, but that's not a good example - if it comes off that easily, then it isn't really useful as provenance, and it would purely be a matter of luck whether it survived or not.