DaveG38

Of course, since FDC means 'f*cking Dreadful Condition'.

I've always maintained a collection of 3d's. I've never really bothered over much about them, but as part of my upgrade drive, I've been improving my examples as far as I can. I've also dived into the 1820's specimens as well as gap filling in the earlier years. I'm not sure why I have never given much thought to them, but I'm on the task now, as I think they deserve to be better represented in my collection. The latest Colin Cooke list just pushed me into a splurge - now there's an old-fashioned term!

Indeed, I've just a bagged a nice group of Victorian, Georgian etc threepences which will be a decent upgrade for my existing ones.

For that price, I'd expect it delivered in person by helicopter, and even then it would be too expensive.

Brian, Based on what you have done (great stuff by the way) could you take my original list of variants and amend it in say red or blue for the changes/additions and then re-publish on here? That way we can see what's new. As has been said, its difficult to follow exactly what's going on without a simple chart/list to compare against.

Anybody know anything about coin cases? I've just bought a 1887 7 coin silver Specimen Set in a case. The coins are all a uniform dark tone with very reflective fields - but they are not proofs. Grade is basically EF-GEF for each of the 7 coins, so a very nice little group, which based on the uniformity of the toning has been together a long time. The interesting thing is that the case looks like it has some kind of animal skin covering. Its a bit lizard like and is a grey/beige colour with Victoria Jubilee Specimen Set in gold lettering on it. I wondered if this covering is shagreen and if so can enybody help with any information about who made these cases and put the sets together.

What do you expect? He's a Labour Peer. Lining one's pockets seems to be a speciality of Labour politicians, whilst at the same time bemoaning the fate of the poor..

He told me he was going away as well. This was at the time he was messing me about. 'Goes away' a lot doesn't he - irony alert!

You are quite correct. Twas I whom he refused to sell it to. Since I was the only bidder up to £900 or so, I'd be surprised if he gets anywhere near £2k. For that money I can get any number of very decent coins.

Should also have suggested that you try your luck on eBay and let the coins find their price.

Assuming they are general circulated coins, not a great deal. Yes one of the two types is scarcer than the other, but collectors of decimal coins are usually only interested in high grade coins or varieties. In many cases, they won't even be aware that there are two varieties for this date/denomination. Plus, of course collectors of decimal are not usually expecting to pay big money for their coins, since most can be obtained from change as they are issued. My guess is maybe £5 the pair, if somebody out there wants the scarcer type.

For a completist, the greatest moments come when a long standing gap is filled. Oh, the joy when I found a 1854 sixpence and that annoying gap closed. Ditto the 1841 halfcrown. Once filled, for me, the interest does wane rather, and the coins become a 'given' even though they get handled and looked at whenever possible.

I'm the older generation, but since I didn't like the original, I don't really have a view about this version.

And it will cost the purchaser £4.15 for delivery by courier, unless he/she lives in Scotland (or presumably anywhere else even slightly remote).

Possibly that as well, although they do currently have a product that includes an over-hyped price for a worn 1940s sixpence. It comes in flashy packaging too, so they aren't above selling on worn old tat!

The cynic in me says that the RM wants them back so that in due course they can then sell them themselves in a nice flashy card wallet and for a highly inflated price.

Both types are mentioned in the 2016 Spink catalogue, although curiously, the circulation issue of the 2015, new bust type, doesn't warrant an entry..

Interesting that back in June these were going for around £18, but have since jumped to around the £33-35 mark. Publicity I imagine?

Just a quick comment about the number of posts, which I know I have brought up elsewhere. For this post your total is shown as 1566, but this is the same total presented for your earlier post 7 hours back when you commented on the matt 1902 crown.

Sorry, my fault. I looked at the wrong number. However, the my overall point stands, which is that you are shown as having posted 2264 times, and this number is shown against every one of your posts on this thread. Surely, the post after 2264 should then be 2265, or am I being too simplistic. Either way, I'm confused. Ditto, 1949threepence has the same number of posts despite there being 2 which are about 20 hours apart.

For me this is your post number 399. The one immediately following is also number 399. Yet refreshing the page doesn't seem to make any difference.

Not for me. 1949Threepence has two posts on this page, one 3 hours ago and the other 21 hours ago, yet both are apparently post number 2596. Page refresh doesn't alter this. It's the same for all the other posters.

Anybody know why the number of posts shown on the left doesn't appear to be updating?

Demotion for me from Forum God, with smiting rights, down to Senior Poster (sounds very corporate) - I know I'm getting my pension but does this have to be posted on here!!!

What's so difficult? As long as the pic is less than 500k its just a couple of clicks to upload it - where's the problem? Takes all of 10 seconds.