Coinery

Thanks, gents! Reassuringly unreassuring!

Rob and Clive might be interested? Probably better than eBay after a bum set of bids and 15% off of everything, including post?

How soon do they put the hammer prices up?

Chances are coinery if you get it ,will be at your top bid and not less.Yes, it's not very often I get a nice surprise with proxy bids!

It's a shame they don't even provide a sound-link so you can listen live!

'Limited to 20 students...be sure you don't miss out!'

Here you go chaps, just had this emailed to me! For around £200 you too can be an expert grader! http://engage.collectiblesgroup.com/index.php/email/emailWebview?mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRonu6vPZKXonjHpfsX66O8lXKCg38431UFwdcjKPmjr1YIAS8R0aPyQAgobGp5I5FEOTLbYV6Z6t60PWQ%3D%3D

Yarp! Not good, is it!They really should get the sale room fully onboard, it would do them endless good? Certainly no harm could come of it! Maybe they prefer the stability of knowing they've got X100k in the bag, even before the auction takes place?

I wish, as I've had to use the least favourite method of mine for buying coins, the proxy bid!

that's probably the problem! They do say books make instant experts! Oh, dear!

that's probably the problem! They do say books make instant experts! Oh, dear!

Hi LED, I'd be surprised if you could get more than £15 for the entire lot, especially as the postage is going to cost £5+ There is a member on here (Scott) who buys up lots of bulk lots...might be worth messaging him? Good luck with your sale!

I agree TG, stick Rob's 1800's provenance on that coin, and Nicholas might've been buying the other coins he was interested in?

Goodness, don't you just want a collection of coins like that! Why didn't slaney have that provenance with the coin? Why wasn't it even researched by a numismatist for the sale?

Yes, many HROTD!

I've always used XP, I hope that sounds like I know what I'm talking about? I know that my neighbour, who's much older than I, sees me as the font of all computer knowledge (which I'm not, though I can navigate my own system for most things/repairs) and is forever asking me to do things like back-up stuff, and maybe load printer software, etc...easy I say, until I realise I can't even navigate the most basic functions on his top-of-the-range Windows system. Why do they have to change these things so drastically? This is where my son will one day go 'duh, dad'! And it won't be because I'm computer illiterate, it'll be because they've changed all the paths I'm hard-wired to follow! I haven't got time to spend another 20 years, working my way into the bowels of a PC, only to find once I've got there that they've turned the map upside down and renamed it Swaziland. It's no good at all, when I've only ever known it at Suffolk and Lyme Regis!

Did you watch that BBC Documentary about the plight of the German, and German-speaking, people after the war? I posted the link in ChKy's thread...what a breath taker! On i-player for a few more days...truly worth a watch!

Isn't EVERYTHING from the Bedale Hoard nowadays?

Nooooooo!

Milled coins just ain't what they used to be? They just got a whole lot better!

Well, while Dave's shilling is still hot, I thought I'd post this random thing. I while back, Rob got into talking about the re-use of old die stock/bar, and proposed that often a piece of bar/stock would be filed off and reused to sink a new die. He mentioned he'd coins where different legends could be seen below (Charles Halfcrowns I think it was?). Anyway, I've since found my own examples of this phenomenon, so it's a practice that's clear in my mind now too! So, whilst I was staring at Dave's proposed R/B James shilling, this jumped out at me! Now, it's pure speculation, but thought it worthy of putting up here, if only to highlight the phenomenon, and have us looking a little more intently at the numismatic potential of such finds. Incidentally, the only REGINA shillings of Elizabeth were the Early ones, which of course were also lis-marked shillings (at least a reasonable percentage were). I doubt we can take it much further than speculation, unless some of the other marks favour an underlying Elizabeth shilling... ? something diagonal through the bottom loop of the B in BRI? ? Something between the R+I of BRI? ? Something diagonal between the O+B of IACOBVS? (this would be especially interesting) So, for a bit of fun, here you go...

Goodness me! Definitely blurs the boundaries! I feel so utterly ashamed of my membership within the human race! http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b05x30lb/1945-the-savage-peace

They certainly look convincing side by side! What's really needed now is a super-macro image of it to really take a proper look? Is that a raised bulge above the top bar of the F or an optical illusion?

However, looking at the bulge above the top bar of the F could also point at die-damage, much like the recently debated open/closed mouth horse on the reverse of the veiled-head crowns? ?

Prelimenarily looking at the spacings above the F I'd say the two examples are likely from different dies! That being said, I think it would be a struggle to deny you an underlying letter, which is likely a P to be fair?