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As I understand it, under the Distance Selling Regulations you have a right to return goods bought at a distance - and therefore which could not be inspected before purchase - within 7 days for a full refund. If eBay suggest that sellers can refuse to accept goods back then I believe they are in error. Of course, if we have any legal experts here who can confirm or deny this it would be appreciated! Regulation summary

Neil Paisley emailed me this afternoon regarding the split, it would seem that if it isn't in Part 1 it is probably in Part 2, if it is in the collection to begin with. Hi John, Sorry for the delay in replying - we have been finishing off part 1 and you will probably notice that it is now on line. The split is pretty even between the 2 parts for example - in Part 1 there is an 1864 Serif 4 and Part 2 is an 1864 Crosslet 4 also there is a good 1869 penny in Part 2 where you will notice that date is missing from Part 1. I hope this gives some insight. Kind regards, Neil

They usually occur when parts of the die fills during striking, usually get a faint outline, this wears with age/use, under a lens you will probably find traces. I wouldn't say they are worth a great deal more than the usual price for the grade. One of my examples I forget to mention the same could occur with a mis strike, this could leave weak impressions on both sides of the coin

They usually occur when parts of the die fills during striking, usually get a faint outline, this wears with age/use, under a lens you will probably find traces. I wouldn't say they are worth a great deal more than the usual price for the grade. One of my examples I have re attached the image

They usually occur when parts of the die fills during striking, usually get a faint outline, this wears with age/use, under a lens you will probably find traces. I wouldn't say they are worth a great deal more than the usual price for the grade. One of my examples

Unfortunately I do not have that info, but will email Bernie. He did say catalogues will be available soon from Cookes, so I will email Neil at the same time. John, will you be able to give us the heads up when the catalogue is available ? Cheers Bernie has just emailed me Hello All, James’s penny collection part 1, now viewable at Colin Cooke website, Bernie

Unfortunately I do not have that info, but will email Bernie. He did say catalogues will be available soon from Cookes, so I will email Neil at the same time.

Bernie emailed earlier, need to correct with the following It is my son James’s collection that is up for auction, mainly accumulated by me. There are many extremely rare and pennies of the highest grade on offer. There are 243 pennies in the collection of which will be sold in two auctions

Heads up lads and ladies, Bernie Workman emailed me last night, he is putting part of his collection up for sale through Colin Cookes website. Bernie has one of the most comprehensive collection of 1860-1953 Bronze pennies I personally know, so I've asked Bernie for a little more detail/ highlights, for the meantime I have attached the link sent to me. http://www.colincooke.com/index.html Definately one for the diary Regards John

Silence is golden!

Even a certain meuseum in Germany can shed no light on this medal Found the following link, http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/collectie/zoeken/asset.jsp?id=RP-P-1924-20〈=nl Date and Rev inscription seems to tie up with the subject matter, but I can't read or translate Best of luck John

You do get 4 pieces in there, so it isn't as bad as might first appear. Does anyone know how many were made and who the designer was? Well I've tried to find out, but drawn a total blank. There is one report from the Royal Mint itself, which refers to the initial test design in 1994, but gives no designer name. The only names we are given are those of Rushin & Maklouf for the reverse and obverse of the eventual circulation issues in 1997, and Rank-Broadley for the 1998 obverse. The link is here Unfortunately all the other links on the issue, appear to have cloned the Royal Mint report to some degree or other, so the name of the trial coins designer is unknown. Maybe a Royal Mint employee. Hopefully somebody will have access to this obscure information. Can't find my set at the moment but I have an image of the four stages

You do get 4 pieces in there, so it isn't as bad as might first appear. Does anyone know how many were made and who the designer was? Well I've tried to find out, but drawn a total blank. There is one report from the Royal Mint itself, which refers to the initial test design in 1994, but gives no designer name. The only names we are given are those of Rushin & Maklouf for the reverse and obverse of the eventual circulation issues in 1997, and Rank-Broadley for the 1998 obverse. The link is here Unfortunately all the other links on the issue, appear to have cloned the Royal Mint report to some degree or other, so the name of the trial coins designer is unknown. Maybe a Royal Mint employee. Hopefully somebody will have access to this obscure information. Can't find my set at the moment but I have an image of the four stages

There was a set issued by the Royal Mint when the bi metal £2 first came about,showing stages of the minting process, the final coin has 'Trial' on it, they were originally made to test vending machines, probably a set been broken apart to be sold, the set usually sells at around £20/30, where as the blanks fetch more as an 'error'

I think you mean Spinks, the other is a top shelf book!? Most publications will deal with the commoner varieties, this forum and some of the members have published some very good general guides which are relatively inexpensive compared to the more promenant publications containing similar information, and are as good if not better. Post questions and images, there is always someone online that will be happy to help.

Classic example of overdates being difficult to see! That looks like a normal 1853 to my eye.

Robert, unfortunately not in the best of condition, the verdigris would normally be the nail in the coffin, but, there is a but, and the reason I asked for a clearer image. It looks like it is a large Rose reverse, quite rare, I have seen them change hands on Ebay circa £50 in similar condition, when presented correctly. John

Robert, could you post larger images of the 58 Rev, looks like a penny and the weight/width would confirm this, but there are several varieties all have differing values and grade is hard to determine with the attached image. John

The 3/2 overdate is very obvious, downward loop of the upper part of the three alomost joins with the central protrusion, the diagonal is faint protruding as a point at the base of the lower loop. Cant seem to attach the image, but will try again tomorrow John Thanks John ~ now that you've pointed that out, it is obvious. The art of recognising overstrikes, it seems to me, is knowing exactly what to look for in order to distinguish from the others. I have attached a closeup of a 53/2

The 3/2 overdate is very obvious, downward loop of the upper part of the three alomost joins with the central protrusion, the diagonal is faint protruding as a point at the base of the lower loop. Cant seem to attach the image, but will try again tomorrow John

Might have a look at them myself, that's around £0.40 gramme, 25% better than most Silver buyers are quoting.

Thanks for the information Azda, I need to sort through, most of the Royal Mint are just worth scrap because of the number issued and tend to be from commonwealth countries rather than UK, but I have noted a few rarer ones like RMPC and Lune dollars from Canada, Early to late 1990s Canadian/USA BU/Proof Commemorative dollars, and several very early Half dollars from America. I'll compile a list and publish when I finally find the time John

I have a similar issue with some Silver I have inherited over 5kg of Canadian, American and Royal mint commemorative issues. Spot price is a round £0.30 for .999, and £0.25 for .925, I have looked at the selling patterns for Solid silver modern issues, if you were lucky the coins would make £7-8 each on Ebay, less 10% listing and selling fees, I would go with the buy back at £12.00, probably a third of what was paid for them, but at least it is guaranteed. John

I have got AVG but never experienced what you describe, It might be worth dropping thier teckkies a line, AVG updates daily so could be a simple coflict between existing programmes and the update, I have emailed them in the past and they usually respond within 24 hours. John