Emperor Oli

"Not A Registered User." I've bought from this seller once before and the transaction went smoothly. Interesting what Lloyd said on CU about it really being run by a criminal.

He's got two of them for sale! He sure is going to be a rich man!

Oh no, not just 4d-1d, but the whole damn set! Coin Rarities Online

In an earlier post you said you wanted to collect them, in the previous you take a seller's slant on it. For selling, keep them in the packaging. For collecting, packaging or capsules.

I doubt you could scratch the coin from the plastic, I've got a Canadian Maple Leaf bullion coin in malleable plastic that has no scratches on. However, you obviously want to move them from the packaging to somewhere else, so I would recommend coin capsules, which can be bought from the proprietor of this site. Check the dimensions beforehand.

If you purely want to invest for silver content and not numismatic value, why not just buy ingots of the stuff? There are decorative mini-ingots on eBay but they sell for over melt. There are the occasional 1 kilogram Engelhard, Metalor or Schone ingots on the Bay but I don't know where about they end compared to melt.

Jeez, scam attempts are a bit lax nowadays.

Oh my. I'll defer to other experts but at first glance that looks like a noble. Other people ought to be able to tell you its age and approximate value. I would go back to this friend's garden and dig it up.

Nope, no coins unfortunately!

Thanks Chris, just been out driving with my Mum for the first time. I thought it went well but she's drinking brandy now.

Eesh Would you really rest a coin like that on a rough piece of wood?

I think we can all pretty much guess where that will end up.

It would tie for me between Maklouf and Machin.

What a publication! I can't wait until copies are released.

Golly she was old. I expect that and the platinum coin will be moderately valuable but I don't know if people will be able to give you book prices for them, perhaps just melt prices.

I'd look from where the seller was first. South America doesn't seem a likely place for something like this to turn up, but that's just me.

In March's Coin News, there is a full-page advertisement on page five announcing the sale of the complete Farthing collection of the late Colin Cooke. Apparently there are over 1700 different specimens, which Coin News elaborates on on page 10. I've photographed both things below.

Slightly liberal I think. I would go a few grades lower, somewhere around fine, perhaps GF.

I got the 2006 hardback last year, and it's chock full of info and full colour pictures.

That seems to be what most Americans chuck coins into when something is amiss.

Definitely. It's a shame that Cameron pointedly distanced himself from Thatcher, I think that lost him support from grassroots Tories. Although Thatcher did sell off state-run industries, she did so because there were loss making, and technically inefficient in a changing world. To keep them state-run would have created a larger burden on successive governments and the taxpayer. As I'm sure you know, protectionism never works - in part it caused the WSC in 1929. Isolating ourselves from Europe would be catastrophic economically, as the Europeans are our largest trading partner. The problem with protectionism is that other countries would reciprocate by putting tariffs on our goods, so we wouldn't be able to buy anything from abroad, nor would be be able to sell it. Now I'm all for self-sufficiency, but there are some things Britain can't make as cheaply as other countries. I would rather pay less money for a foreign car than pay more for a lesser-quality British one, such as the monstrosities made by British Leyland. Like you, I would be all for keeping the colonies, but I wouldn't want them if they were in a state like India in 1947. I also have something of a penchant for Victoria politics, however the only reason it was pro-heavy industry then was because it was the industry that made the most money for the treasury. In the 80s, that had switched to the service sector, so manufacturing jobs became less and less important. It all started going downhill when MPs got salaries and the Parliament Act was passed.

Well I was in favour of him during the contest, but so far he's not living up to my expectations however I think he needs a while longer though to firmly pass judgement. The reason I've begun to dislike him is that he is shifting the party to the centre ground; not supporting grammar schools, abandoning the "Patient Passport" for the NHS and keeping tuition fees for heaven's sake. So far, there is nothing to choose between him and Tony Blair. I know that elections have to be won in the centre ground, but Cameron seems to be abandoning all the policies which were previously mainstays of a Tory government and sprinting for the left wing. I'm all for one nation Conservatism (which Cameron seems to be turning out as), but this is silly. By the by, there is no manifesto to read. Cameron has been dragging his feet and has no specific policies to date, just "Beliefs" and "Ideologies". I thought it rather laughable that Simon Hughes predicts a Lib Dem landslide. They were bad enough before the election, but after the alcoholism and rent boy revelations, I can't see how they really can be a credible force in British politics. The Lib Dems dropped five percentage points in the Telegraph's YouGov poll to about 13% today. And the day the Tories pick up Clause 4 is the day I stop supporting them. I presume you mean the Labour one at any rate. If the Conservatives can get their act together, they can go to town on this government's mishandling of the economy, failing of the NHS, failing of a generation of schoolchildren and failure to carry out half of its manifesto commitments.

Paintshop Pro is a beast. Photoshop seems daunting at first but it doesn't use raster and vector layers as prominently as PSP, so I find it a lot easier. Plus PS is more powerful than PSP, give it a go!

Thanks for pointing these out - I have deleted both coins from the website. If you notice anything further, please do let me know so that I can deal with it (and the guest dealer) accordingly. Many thanks Andy I saw Gary Phelps (or Gary Phelps-esque) dealing on your site a while ago. I considered emailing but thought perhaps it had been sanctioned!