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Re the first two coins, would you agree that it's an indication that CGS are soft, or at least neutral, on the issue of dipping? It makes a pretty big statement about the legitimacy of dipping if they are, given the catalogue of other offences a coin can be rejected on! Maybe not a huge statement, but it does add significantly to the dipping debate I think!

It does look cleaned to me, it has that 'kind of surface' in the lit field, but you'll know when you get it in-hand! Get some images up as soon as you can!

All good for the provenance trail, chaps, to have our coins featured in a respectable guide! When are you covering hammered, Chris?

Not done that before, posted within a post! my post is:"Stranger still, the 2008 and 2011 are £3.00 too, so maybe not a typo...what's that all about?"

I posted a Liz shilling about 4-5 months ago, which was the first I'd seen! It was still doing the rounds recently! Edit: still doing the rounds 141134627860

I see your point, but 2009 and 2010 5p's have been set at £1????

I picked up a pristine 2012 5p last night and, for the first time, just for fun, looked in the decimal section of Spinks! Am I missing something? S4671 2012 5p = £3.00 ????????

This isn't to stir-up an old debate about slabbing, but what do you think of this 221275625618 and maybe even this 221275625610 ? Nice coins, but the first looks especially similar to experiments I've had with a pot of Goddards! I wonder whether CGS slab dipped, but not 'cleaned' coins, on account it would be very difficult to say that a lightly dipped coin wasn't in fact a vacuum, or otherwise well stored coin, from any given era?

just a bit of one!I'm glad I'm not alone then! They'll never be worth more than face, not even in my son's lifetime I shouldn't think?

Talking of decimal, I played cards last night at my father's and, maybe drank too much wine, I don't know? But I pulled a 2013 10p and 5p, and a 2012 5p from the playing money! I took my temperature, and that all seemed to be in order, so I'm not sure what's going on?

I've just managed to successfully save, David! Sorry, no ideas to suggest re your problem????

I picked up what could possibly be a 2000 50p fake the other day? As soon as I get the camera out, I'll get the images up for thoughts! If it is, it's for whoever it was on here that I said I'd keep any modern fakes back for, it's the reason I didn't spend it on a pint!

A problem I once had was saving an item in one eBay account, to then find it actually saved in another 'unrelated' account, amongst other strange happenings! Took me ages to work out that signing out of one eBay account, and then opening another 'different' account in the same browser/page was the problem! Just in case anyone else has any oddities like mine...you need to open up a 'new' window if you are signing into a new acc. Clear as mud?

Having a blonde moment! Doh!

Enjoy, TG, all the very best!

excellent!

And if at first you don't succeed, try, try, again! 161182357437

That is depressing. As a note to others it's a fake Edward I groat. There's some skill in that coin, a shame (in some respects) to have got it so wrong!

Which is why we are back to the question of what to include or not. Essentially there will never be a volume to suit all, though there might be collectors who adjust to a specific volume. More likely is that everyone will have two or three preferred references. As you were chaps.I think so! Though I still think a few popularly collected varieties should still be included! Particularly when there is little consistency in the cataloging otherwise!

It's just suddenly occurred to me, reading Pies post, that varieties represent nothing other than the depth to which an individual wishes to collect! My usual comparison is E1 (sorry), where it's possible to collect the 'spink' 6ds, the individual date 6ds, all dates with numerous mm's, the BCW varieties, where dates are broken down into obvious types by pretty major things like rose style, lis, lions, shield, legends, and leaf styles (all noticeably different by eye), and then there is even individual dies if you like? Without opening the book... 1561 Spink's 4 or so varieties! BCW distinct varieties, around 100? Distinctive dies of 1561 1000 (approx) As a collector, I could easily do one of the following: Collect the spink list of 6ds, or go for the BCW list of 6d's, which would preclude collecting anything else (ever), OR collect every known die for 1561, which would be the end of collecting anything every again! The main point is: all would have the same pleasure, just a different focus!

Nice bit of design work, Clive! Especially like the silk effect! What software?Merry Christmas to you and your's! Hope the PM got through!

I've sunk a couple of ciders already, so can't resist joining in again! Have a great evening and 'morrow all! Enjoy, enjoy!

It would've been tongue-in-cheek, Angela!

I don't have a psychological limit, just a financial one! If I had 10k I wouldn't flinch to spend it on some Elizabethan gold...sorry, an Elizabethan gold piece!

Without diving into the books, are all 4 of these different? They look it!