Hussulo

This is the new part of the Museum it is joined onto the old part, but the old part is currently closed for refurbishment. Lots of Scottish coins.

Wrong end of the stick.

Merry Christmas to all. We had a great day at my mother in laws. I hope everyone had a nice Christmas? Regards, Hus

Thank you for your suggestions Q.E.D. We already have a couple of dealers listing and we have just started advertising, so we are hoping for a snowball affect. Whereby more people will join and when they do this will attract even more. We really need to get it out there and show people there is an alternative to eBay and it is specifically for coin collectors. We could have had our fees set at 0% but felt it would be a bit underhanded to let users join and then bump the fees up later. The current fee is 4% which we don't plan on changing and you only have that to pay as a seller if you sell an item. It costs you nothing to list an item if it doesn't sell, so you don't really stand much to loose. We feel that 4% is a very competitive figure, if you sell a coin for £10 it is only costing you 40p. There are no hidden fees. Some similar sites have a sliding percentage whereby depending on how much you sell an item for the percentage changes. On Coins4u.net it's a flat 4% regardless of how much your final sale price is. We plan on using most of any profit made to invest in advertising the site. Hopefully this will be the catalyst for a virtuous circle leading to increasing numbers of buyers and sellers. If we charged 0% or advertising budget would be greatly reduced and this wouldn't benefit the site or the sellers. It would be impossible for us to monitor every item listed. Essentially the site is an advertising platform for sellers to list and describe their own products. They can sell using a number of options including Purchase Now, or an auction format, although the site or Coins4u.net isn't an auction service. We do not handle any of the coins or goods at any time. Current listing types are: Auction Listing Format Dutch Auction Listing Format Reverse Auction Listing Format Fixed Price Listing Format Allow sellers to specify Start Date You also get 6 free picture uploads. Free to join and as mentioned listing is free. I would recommend all sellers to use clear pictures and descriptions as it will help sell their products and minimise returns. I would also recommend that buyers do their research and make sure what they are planning on buying has been graded accurately, they understand the description and buy from a seller with a good returns policy. I am keen to keep the sale of forged, counterfeit and fake coins which are being sold as the real thing to a minimum. I realise it may be impossible to stop all such items being listed but as an when we are alerted to them we will make a judgement and if the item is indeed the above it will be removed, and the seller possibly warned, suspended or banned. With that in mind if the site does get busy I would like to hire experienced collectors/ experts as a judge in their particular type of field, who could asses a coin and delete the said sale or auction if appropriate. Kind regards, Hus

Received the coin today Hus, thanks again. Mark You're welcome.

I collect gold coins, but personally for me it's about numismatics and aesthetics. I would like to think that in years time my collection might be worth more, but I buy gold coins because I like gold as a materiel and some of the world gold coins have beautiful designs. I was inspired by the Eliasberg World gold coin collection. As already pointed out the economical situation can make collecting them quite hard, as the price of gold plays a big factor.

Wow the man, the legend!

If buying for bullion value you only need to worry about the coin being genuine and the correct weight. If buying for numismatic reasons you need to look out for damage and wear as well as the above. You can buy nice older sovereigns for around the bullion price, but they may be a bit worn. You can often find some nice George the V 1911-1932 Sovereigns in Uncirculated or close enough grade for near bullion. You really need to search around. Personally I would rather own an older one to a newer one. Chris's book Collectors Coins GB 2009 would also be a good buy as its very well priced and it will give you the value of Sovereigns for their grade. A word of warning though, don't listen to the grades given buy some sellers as they tend to overgrade their coins and you don't want to spend over the ods. I would look at buying from reputable dealers to start with, until you are more confident at grading. You could check out my website below in my signature it has a section on grading and Chris has just released a book on grading. Regards, Hus

And the winner is: Mark Sarul Congratulations I will PM you shortly to get your postage information to send you the coin. I'd like to say a big thank you for everybody that took part and for all of your continued support. Many thanks, Hus

CLOSED please no more entries. I am about to draw the lucky winner out of the hat and I will be announcing them soon. Good luck!

You can now list in different currencies including the US Dollar: http://www.coins4u.net/detail.asp?id=147 http://www.coins4u.net/detail.asp?id=146 The GBP you see is only the rough conversion as the site's primary currency is the GBP. The bidders however can only bid using multiples of the currency stated by the seller. Thanks, Hus