SionGilbey

It's amazing how they even get through Chris's rather good filters...

However some coins can be holed at the time quite well, and not too rare ones either, so are quite wearable as a lucky pendant. I've got a silver threepence... Probably either a love token, home made jewellery as silver was expensive for a working person back then or a jeweller/engraver's apprentice's practice piece being the smallest silver denomination.

Ok, my first item is a 1967 penny that 'clacks' when you drop it. I COULD put a picture up but it looks just like any old boring 1967 penny! Nice grade, mind you, EF with traces of lustre, must be worth all of ... ooh, what shall we say, 99p plus postage? Could it be on a similar penny planchet but for another country? Is it a forgery made of another metal? (As if anyone would forge a 1967 penny ) Does it have anything wrong with the edge? It looks and feels exactly like any 1967 penny (definitely the right planchet, metal, etc). And you're quite right - who'd forge one of they? You'd only notice something wrong if you dropped it on a surface - instead of ringing, it clacks. The only I've not done is weigh it, but I don't have a set of they sensitive coin weigh thingies. I picked a little scales up off the net for £2 and a pound postage new, expecting nothing more than a rough estimate, but the beauty is accurate to 0.01 of a gram

Ok, my first item is a 1967 penny that 'clacks' when you drop it. I COULD put a picture up but it looks just like any old boring 1967 penny! Nice grade, mind you, EF with traces of lustre, must be worth all of ... ooh, what shall we say, 99p plus postage? Could it be on a similar penny planchet but for another country? Is it a forgery made of another metal? (As if anyone would forge a 1967 penny ) Does it have anything wrong with the edge?

I've taken a little interest in odd coins... mint errors, brockages, wrong flans, non recurring varieties etc. Post pictures and we can speculate on error causes. Sion

As far as I can judge, you are quite correct. That sad and sorry specimen is indeed the Gouby X or hollow neck type. In that condition for wear, worth £30 -£40 based on recent sales. As it is, well £0.99 looks about right if you can live with it. looked at that one myself and came to the same conclusion, Gouby X Who's going to be brave enought to ask him a question..... like do you know you have just ruined a rare coin that would have been worth £30-40. Still recon my shilling is the best though I can never get over what some people do to coins. In my early restarted collecting days (1995), I was ferreting through a tin of old coins in a local antique dealers only to find to my delight a pratically uncirculated cartwheel tuppence. No edge knocks, no problems, except some idiot had drilled a fuc*ing great hole right through it - aaaaagh!!! Some lovely coins in bulk lots I've bought have had holes in... They went straight to scrap. However sometimes people will still buy them just to fill that gap in the coin tray.

Machined off.

I've dealt with many spam bots and you can always tell by: From China (most all are) Links in sig Multiple links in post where they shouldn't be. They're usually just some english with the link randomly placed in but this one seems a bit better.

And it's an obvious spam bot.

As far as I can judge, you are quite correct. That sad and sorry specimen is indeed the Gouby X or hollow neck type. In that condition for wear, worth £30 -£40 based on recent sales. As it is, well £0.99 looks about right if you can live with it. The hollow neck is no longer the infallible predictor we worked out (see long thread in the Varieties sub-forum) : i.e. ALL Gouby X's have a hollow neck, but not all hollow necks are GX's. The I in BRITT is the only cast-iron guarantee. Is it I to the gap? I can't quite remember the CM study...

NO YOU CAN'T. If you want to do some building why not head off to Fukutooma in Japan as I understand they are in need of building over there. However I don't think they'd appreciate link building that much

Hello Marie, If they are modern currency issue £2 coins they are worth £2 each. If they are gold or gold proof issues the values will depend on grade and rarity but will be in excess of £300 each even for the common ones. John. And if they're double sov.s...

WHY do people worldwide insist on ruining coins for no good reason...

To value them we'll need the year and definitely a picture. Thanks Sion

VARY RAR ONLY TEN NUN BY THE COIN COLLECTOR EXPERTS (17 sold, 101 remaining)

I'm just starting selling a few coins and was thinking about what the coin market wants, so I thought I'd start with some of the expert coin buyers/dealers here! I think it will be quite educational. What would you like eBay sellers to do in general that they don't at the moment? Thanks, Sion

I don't know if it's scientific or just custom, but coin trays usually come lined with 'red fluffy stuff'. I've seen a lot of blue fluffy stuff around as well.

Could rare varieties be melted down unnoticed?

Are you looking for pictures of coins only in uncirculated condition with the backgrounds photoshopped out?

It's tempting to bid 20p for the coin and probably win the auction. Postage will cost him 46p (new rates from Monday). Having received the coin demand that he sends you the tea-towel because it's in the photo and therefore you assumed it was included. Otherwise you'll leave very negative feedback! Point made, and he's well out of pocket! A bit of fun too Pfft... 70p is a twentieth of my current coin fund! As if I have that kind of money! hard times...

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/undated-20p-tail-side-rare-/250794214101?pt=UK_Coins_BritishDecimal_RL&hash=item3a648002d5 What a scam

I've always thought that one of the fun things about collecting was shifting through loads of junk to find a bargain coin that satisfyingly fills a gap

Some more very rare coins http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1997-2-Two-Pound-Coin-Very-Rare-DATE-/250790096628?pt=UK_Coins_BritishDecimal_RL&hash=item3a64412ef4 http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Very-rare-Victoria-Silver-3d-coin-/360353223575?pt=UK_Coins_BritishMilled_RL&hash=item53e6b9d397 http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1-00-ONE-POUND-COIN-BRITISH-SHIELD-VERY-RARE-UK-1988-/130499500955?pt=UK_Coins_BritishComm_RL&hash=item1e62605b9b Oh, and its outstanding how many very scarce coins this seller can list: http://myworld.ebay.co.uk/vixta007/?_trksid=p4340.l2559

He is obviously very dodgy! http://feedback.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback2&userid=ashdei&iid=170619890763&de=off&items=25&which=positive&interval=180&_trkparms=positive_180 His feedback page, containing buckets of identical feedback...

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