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  1. Posted · Edited by azda

    Yes I know everything is subjective and I know a lot of people on here don't like TPGs as it is, but I'd like to really start a rogues gallery of some of the grading from TPGs that's doing the rounds.  I've just spotted this and it pains me as I have a much nicer 1887 crown slabbed as MS63, this one is MS64 and I'm shaking my head at how people have become so reliant on them yet what they are giving grades to is utter sh*t. Standards have dumped a lot. Bring back LCGS

    So here's an MS64 1887 Crown slab number 6271095001

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  5. Posted · Edited by azda

    There seems to be a whole lot of problems going on with conservation over at NGC. Those who collect modern silver proofs are having their coins come back after conservation with black marks or spotting that weren’t there when sent for grading.

    NGC as we know take no liability for any damages to a coin, so they’ve already washed their hands of the issue. My best answer to the problem is why conserve a 2022 proof coin anway?

    My YT friend always tells or told his sheep to get them conserved as he was making a whole pile of money, he would charge upfront and keep the money even if they weren’t conserved, the fools who sent him the coins always thought that if they paid their money then it was automatically conserved, but if conservation was required it was down to the opinion of NCS and not the YouTuber, that’s how he was buying many nice older coins. 😉

    Fools and their money, and they still seem to trust him 🥸

    Coin collecting has become a very dirty game for those who wish to make a killing.

  6. Posted · Edited by azda

    On 4/16/2022 at 11:22 PM, ozjohn said:

    I was looking through my late sister’s papers and came across $20 confederate bill. It was only printed on one side and I initially thought it was a copy. On closer examination and looking at one online at real examples it seems that they were only printed on one side. Whether this one is genuine I don’t know but it’s trying to look like a real bill. My sister was very interested in th American Civil War and the Confederacy.

    You could maybe send it to PMG or the equivalent body for grading and authenticity, at least it will give you peace of mind whether its real or not as its probably outside the realms of most of our knowledge here. Alink to some notes here on ebay

    https://www.ebay.com/b/PMG-20-US-Confederate-Currency/3414/bn_54249599

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  7. Posted

    15 hours ago, 1949threepence said:

    So why not just say "his wife" throughout? What was the point in "the woman he's sleeping with"? It's blindingly obvious he sleeps with her, so why mention it as though it has some special meaning?

    As for the rest, not interested, the world's moved on. There are massively more important things happening.

    You'll have to ask the person who wrote the post from where I found it that question, as stated, I didn't write it, I just copied and pasted it.

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  8. Posted

    1 hour ago, 1949threepence said:

    So just a phrase to somehow personally demean them both,  after you'd already said "wife" in your first line. Thought so, but just wanted to check first.

     

    I mentioned at the end of the post that it came from elsewhere, it also says Rishi Sunak' wife at the beginning, there was no mention of a third party integrated into the marriage.

    Also, you mention that Labour would have made mistakes, but that's theory only as they weren't in power during the lockdown. How do we account for the billions to friends of MPs paying for PPE at hyper inflated prices at the expense of the taxpayer? Also Boris' lies about the 25 parties he held while everyone else had to stay away from their loved ones during their dying days?

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    So... it now comes to light that Rishi Sunak's wife was part owner of Lava Mayfair Club Ltd (a private membership gym), which collapsed last year owing almost £44million to creditors, including £374,000 to HMRC!
    Another of Mrs Sunak's ventures... Mrs Wordsmith (an education business) went into administration last year owing £16.3million – after receiving a £1.3million loan from the Government's "Future Fund"!
    OH IT GETS WORSE... Digme Fitness (which she owns 100% of) received up to £635,000 of furlough money... before it then closed its eight studios in London and Oxford... still owing HMRC £415,000!

    So .... Mr Sunak introduces the furlough scheme ...  and the woman he's sleeping with benefits by up to £635,000!
    Mr Sunak oversees the rules regarding Non-Dom status ... and the woman he's sleeping with benefits by over £20 million!
    Mr Sunak is in charge of ensuring that the UK maximises its tax revenue... yet the woman he's sleeping with has been active in, or has owned, companies going bust owing a staggering £789,000 to HMRC!

    Found this elsewhere 

  17. Posted

    4 hours ago, VickySilver said:

    Gaaak!!!! Well, I collect this type of coin but NOT at this price and glad mine came from a saner time. Nowadays I am most careful with my purchases and only splurge on particular items that I know are especially scarce or have other attributes. I would imagine there are others that have somewhat retreated in this market as well...

    I think most of these types of coins are more speculative investors rather than collectors. I see the same thing with dealers, buying at X and then just doubling their buying price as their selling price. Buyers, or those who don’t  do their homework a little are the ones paying the silly prices.

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    On 4/10/2022 at 9:29 AM, 1949threepence said:

    OK, so just thinking about the Rishi Sunak affair, doesn't this bring into focus to what extent a politician should be held accountable for the actions and opinions of their other halves? Do we expect them to be in perfect lockstep, or do we accept they are two separate individuals with their own ideas? I mean supposing Rishi's wife, Akshata Murthy, had refused to change her tax status and gone in front of the cameras to say what she was doing was legal, adding that it was to her financial advantage to keep things as they were, and she wasn't taking orders from anyone, including him? Should Rishi have then immediately resigned?

    Supposing Jeremy Corbyn's wife, Laura Alvarez, had publicly declared herself a Tory and gone on to say what a huge fan she was of David Cameron or Teresa May? Or if Philip May had criticised his wife for the police cuts back in 2014. Or back in the 80's Denis Thatcher had declared himself left wing and expressed his profound admiration for Karl Marx and Michael Foot.

    Possible examples are legion. What I don't get in the current instance is why Rishi's own judgement is in question for his wife's personal choices. With some of the sanctimonious crap that's emerging from the media, you might be forgiven for thinking that we'd gone back a long way in time, and she was thought of as a mere chattel, ready to do his bidding at the drop of a hat.  

    Sunak being the Chancellor had a conflict of interest. Lets go back a little though, the Tory party has been funded by Russians, in 2007 a Russian ex banker Lubov Golubeva makes her first donation to the Tory party, she is the partner of Vladimir Chernukin, Putins former deputy finance minister, they own multiple companies through shell. 2008 Blojo is elected mayor of London, in 2009 former KGB spy Alexander Lebedev buys the London Evening standard and appoints his son Evgeny as senior Executive director.

    In 2010 Blojo and Evgeny get friendly, in 2012 The Evening standard publicly back Blojo for the Mayor of London campaign (just a coincidence, right?) The year Blojo wins that election, he stays for free at lebedevs Italian castle (something he'd do every October for 5 years afterwards) In 2016 MI6 expresses concern about Lebedev, Blojo was made aware of the concerns, but remains close friends with him.

    Lebedev in a tweet speculates that Alexander Litvinenko may have been murdered by MI6. In 2015 Lebedev pushes the UK to ally itself with Putin in Syria, Blojo then writes a Telegraph column saying "Lets deal with the devil, we should work with Putin in Syria" Chemical weapons were deployed during that time" In 2016 Lebedev attends a private dinner with Blojo at his family home in Islington along with Michael Gove, its the night that they both decide to back Brexit. The same year Blojo says that the EU provoked the Russian invasion of Crimea. 2018, Skripal and his daughter are poisoned on the streets of Salisbury.

    Lebedev has now a peerage.......Yeah, British politics and the Tory party are not in it for themselves, they've sold Britain to the Russians and sold contracts to their mates and make sure their family are taken care of, and screw the British public. All of that info is easily obtainable should you need to fact check it......

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  22. Posted

    2 hours ago, Coinery said:

    Crazy prices…honestly, some of the shoddy Edward pennies I saw were silly money! Maybe everything was? Maybe just DNW? 

    If you think that's bad.........Are we on here out of touch with prices?

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  23. Posted

    9 hours ago, Paulus said:

    There is ever increasing evidence imo that due to hype, blind acceptance of TPG grades, record prices being realised, and laziness, greed has become a big factor in our hobby

    The reliance on a so called influencer who doesn’t know his arse from his elbow has pushed the modern coins to such levels of greed that those who trust what he says are now finding out he was just shilling coins he bought so he could sell off at hyper inflated prices to buy the numismatic coins. Some people never learn, yet they still trust him and flock to his YT channel. Fools and their money are soon parted as we are now seeing from the recent dump in modern coin prices, and not before time.

  24. Posted

    15 hours ago, Bruce said:

    I briefly go through the auction items days ago, and have a feeling that estimates are not cheap in view of items and quality offering.  I will likely pass n wait for subsequent Shilling one.

    For Churchill, i remember it's discussed in another post that high price realised.  I am also not a fan of this Crown.  Let's see how it is performed this time.

     

    A Churchill got £800 in MS65 grade at Baldwins just a few months ago. Ridiculous 

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