ski

may well be..............but vf?

get back to you............will try again

i just hope that tyro isnt a kid spending his saved up pocket money.

no........you have to accept the cookie pop up for every page..........darned annoying

no not fair at all..........., there is a huge gulf between the regular knowledgeable dealers and those who sell the overgraded polished/cleaned overpriced crap on ebay,..........and thats the whole point to choolie, find yourself a good knowledgeable dealer, bide youre time and get the piece you want. ski

i agree......although it seems to have become a bit fashionable here of late to give dealers a good slagging off. ebay is becoming less and less useable in my opinion, the serious collector, can judge grade, but the newbie, less so..... shilling is rife on high end pieces on ebay, but boy does the novice get caned on the ordinary pieces by anyone out to make a fast buck.......anyone with a tin of duraglit or the like. god help the novice.........cant trust ebay....cant trust dealers.........sad

one of the threads that ran in the last 2 or 3 days, cant remember which. maybe worth a trawl.

nice site, easy to navigate and good themed colours.......Q.does the cookies pop up, have to pop up with every page change?

he took a real beating here a few days ago

F= frightful F= flat c'mon get anglo-saxon....its far more descriptive

thanks, will look up his other stuff on last fm......ski

choolie......im really sorry....my post was to try and show you there is more to life than ebay....i looked at a good few dealers sites for 1902 florins and pointed out this one as he had stock......sadly the thread has degenerated into a slagging him off thread rather than give you any reasonable help in judging the 2 coins on offer.........sorry for that ski

my post wasn't meant to recommend rendell ,more an idea of getting the op to look around dealers lists rather than use flea bay. ive also to say ive never bought from rendell, so cannot comment on his grading. i only used rendell as his site showed he had 2 examples of that date listed. ski.

im looking at the first one and dont think its unc, there looks to be flattening on brittanias breasts and also the drape blowing across the trident lacks detail, i dont think its a weak strike. just for referance...spink 2012 ef£70 and unc £120. personally i think better could be found within your budget. maybe you should email richard ingram he has a couple for sale, he will send pics by email, he has an aunc for £95 and an ef for £55. you may be better off shopping around the coin dealers instead of relying on ebay. ski.

a good vf apparently

thats kinda what i was thinking when i opened the thread. ive just looked at the london coins auction archive and the roman1 proof they sold last year looks like dies 2a. thanks for all the replies. ski

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i was gonna see kelly clarkson in bath, i think i may wait until shes in the bedroom............nearly back on thread debs

i see spain has announced its to have banking reforms

i wrote to the seller and pointed out all his coins were very highly polished to make them look a better grade than what they were, he did reply, saying thats how he bought them and people would buy basing their judgement on grade. The idea that his coins were not pristine as advertised but very highly polished was of no concern to him at all.

thanks guys for all the info. am i reading this right? i would disagree, there are loads of obv2's out there for the arabic1, in fact 2b is the normal die pairing given in davies as 541 am i reading this right? obverse1 with the roman numeral is the correct die pairing davies 540 gives as dies 1a all of my roman 1's are obv1 .

okay thanks. where would the referance davies 540a have come from if its not in an existing referance book, was there published in coin magazines/journals updates by davies which would have been incorporated into a future update?

sorry, here it is again http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1888-QUEEN-VICTORIA-DOUBLE-FLORIN-/251052113898?pt=UK_Coins_BritishMilled_RL&hash=item3a73df3fea its the same auction to which i referred to earlier in the thread. ski.

ive checked the 3 rob has for sale and their all 2b, those on ebay that can be determined from the pics are all 2b. peckris do you know if davies was only ever one edition?

Chris briefly mentions in his CCGB book that there are 2 obverse types for arabic 1 1887 double florins and that both are believed equally common. These would be dies 1b and 2b, the "d" of dei either points to a bead or a space, also the cross on the crown either points to a bead or a space. i have just 1 coin that is 1b but i have 5 of 2b, does this suggest that 1b may be scarcer?. also looking at the london cgs site, they quote davies 540a for the 1b coin, which is odd for 2 reasons, 540 is the number for a roman1 coin and also my copy of davies doesnt mention this variety. my book is edition 1 is there a later edition that contains this information? spink or esc dont mention at all