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and around 99.99% of those 15% are related to William Wallace Geez, even Trump is Scottish

Not sure it was, Bernies was near UNC if i remember correctly

REV

Adding the 1862 on behalf of vicky silver

The surfaces of the REV look as though they have been spray painted, it might just be the angle of the picture but they do look a little rough. Does the auction where you bought these do coins normally? Would they know a genuine American $5 from a fake one?

Top coin is the nicer of the 2, CGS 82 is as they state MS64-65, lets not forget that the American TPGs work to different principles than LCGS

There is one massive difference with art than there is with coins, art is always unique, it's a one off picture which won't be painted again, whereas coins have a mintage...Coins can be minted in seconds whereas a work of art can take weeks or months to produce....Different kettle of fish entirely

@Paulus this was my matte proof Sov, this got a 62 grade because it had mint wipe marks, in all honesty i was disappointed as i thought it was much better than others i'd seen in the same grade, so if you're thinking of sending in proofs just make sure they have no wipe marks

I don't think they'll allow you to take pictures, the last place i viewed coins at stated pictures were strictly forbidden

I would have thought these would be tough for anyone to even find let alone grade

And just as a side salad on coin buying, Rob gave me good advice a while back, don't think about what is good about the coin, (big, bright and shiny etc) try and find it's bad points and reasons you wouldn't buy it.........TPGs love tone also, so you do get grade points for that (which i do find strange) although, when buying coins, eye appeal to the beholder is also an important point... Next year, i'm going to try a year with NGC and see how that goes, they have an office in Munich so i have no postage costs

£225K hammer

Its on lot 101 now, so you might catch it

This Vigo is going through the sale room in about 40 mins, lot 116 if anyone is interested in watching it

There was a VERY dubious 1918 Sovereign that most here condemed but Mr Lockett said was kosher

Interesting, will have a look

They don't like mint wipes

Interesting story here http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-vote-eu-referendum-not-legally-binding-supreme-court-legal-challenge-article-50-a7418706.html

I've seen this on YouTube, they basically try and help you hack your own machine and then tell you to give them money to unlock it, 1 guy actually locked their machine and then asked him for cash to unlock it

Will there be a future MacBook version or are you sticking with just windows based?

Reference book on fake Spanish Reales, good for those that buy counter marked coins of George III www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss/251-3060932-0341269?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Counterfeit+Portrait+Eight-Reales%3A+The+Un-real+Reales+

Nowhere near FDC, EF at best

I'm going to make a guess on the Londons Wyon penny and say £4300 hammer, pitch your guesses

If you have tried to attach a bigger than 500kb file initially then reduced it but haven't left the topic and come back to it, it will still recognise the first attempt. For some strange reason you have to leave the topic and re-enter it and try uploading again

196kb image attached, must be you