Coinery

Hit the nail right on the head, and potentially into eBay’s coffin!

‘BUYING fees?’ PS and thanks for clearing up some of the points!

Yes, I feel it will only take 1 or 2 bad seller experiences to kill it all off entirely! I receive Signed-For AND Special Delivery items all the time, which haven’t progressed through the system properly…namely, I haven’t officially received them! Essentially, eBay’s new approach will require a hugely transformed Royal Mail for it to succeed!

‘Beautiful ruby toning,’ though 🥴

Just spotted that eBay are from February planning to hold seller funds until 2 days after delivery, which is fine, except in the cases where Royal Mail haven’t scanned items as delivered! Example: I had an item arrive in Australia this week which track and trace still apparently have at the PO I posted it at! Also, I have a standard package (RM label printed via eBay itself; the ‘will only update when delivery is attempted’ kind), which the recipient has had since before Christmas, which still remains ‘undelivered’ on track and trace! I sense some big headaches coming on!

No this is very helpful, thank you for all your time, really appreciated. So, Lockett and Abbott both were Australians, and my coin owned by a Victorian collector, that feels good, and another detail for the record. Thank again, Rob!

Thanks, Rob! I have an Elizabeth 1562/1 threepence that has a Lockett ticket with it - on the back it says in his hand ex Abbott ‘Collection’ (so probably George, then?) and I was wondering about the timeline of that collection?

I can’t find anything for Abbott and Clonterbrook in the ticket document, do we have dates for their collection dispersals and possibly birth/deaths?

A few enjoyable hours passed. You can’t not love a little bit o’ history like that!

We were having this summer/winter conversation the other night…it was my initial view that, if you grew up in Australia, you’d know no different, Christmas would always have been in the middle of summer, which I can’t get my head around at all. The reciprocal view was that the massive movie influence always has Christmas alongside snow and, I guess, Father Christmas comes from Lapland, so is mostly featured in scenes of wintery weather. So, where does that leave the experience of an Australian? Are they as weirded out by the idea of Christmas being a winter celebration, as we are by you all having a bbq in your shorts on the same day? Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas, whichever continent you happen to be having it on 🎄🎄

Sometimes with the crowns of the Edward pennies it’s often easier to look at what’s not there, namely the shapes of the spaces inbetween the fleurs. In this example, looking at the space enclosed by the upper section of the 7 makes it much easier to see. Nice coin!

Is that the Midland?

You’re US based aren’t you? Yes, it must be difficult to steal a bargain from overseas. I get the impression, though, that all the best pieces are slowly but surely being hoovered up by the American market…it will soon be too expensive for us all I fear.

Couldn’t even watch. Too far off the numbers for me, no point in unnecessarily bleeding out the soul…I’d rather sneak something from the lowland markets whilst the Royal Court are distracted by the king

Thank you and, agreed, their archive is excellent, but the search facility on their live auction catalogue, and just about everything else, is a real ball ache imho…maybe iOS is the issue? Couldn’t possibly be me

No, it’s just that I happened to buy one last month in a significantly better grade, so was really interested to see what this one came in at, given the LCA description of it. Thank you, though…is that what normally happens at LCA, they don’t simply mark it as passed or unsold? I find their website such a pain to navigate that I barely even bother to look at their lots nowadays…they need to get up to speed, and fast, it’s getting to be so much easier on all the other platforms.

Anyone know what happened to the realised price for lot 1652 in the recent London Coins sale?

Two big fat Rs for Restrike…or is that Replica? Terrible show!

I’ve been through the BNJ list and can’t seem to fully ID this ticket? I think the stand-out details are capitals throughout, and the loop of the R generally reaching the bottom of the upright and then heading off horizontally? Any ideas what the reverse info pertains to? Not your hand in nib, rather than biro, is it @Rob?

All appears to be well on iOS - hope you get it sorted, so frustrating!

The mint mark looks to be a P in brackets (P) which makes it a Tower Mint shilling under Parliament, dated1643-44

Perfect, that worked a treat…PLUS I’ve now managed to save that specific search for future access, a great workaround, thank you! 🙏

Many thanks for that, will give it a go

Does anyone know if it’s possible to search an entire category (using iOS in my case) without using a search word? Effectively, can I search, say, the entire hammered section on eBay without entering anything into the search box? Hope that makes sense?

Who on earth gets these things encapsulated? I was looking over 10 or more NGC Edward I pennies the other day, not one of them was worth more than £15 in the raw state. 🤷‍♂️