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Its generally agreed that 105,000 of these were minted but no catalogue offers a price. For those interested, Albertis is one of the best guides around: http://www.albertis.fr/topic/index.html

DNW are going to spoil my Christmas one way or another. They're selling a fantastic token collection December 4th. If the estimates are anywhere near accurate, I'll probably spend too much and we'll be eating baked beans on the 25th. If some items take off the way I believe they will I'll probably be sulking until February. https://www.dnw.co.uk/auctions/catalogue/results.php?auction_id=506

A wise man pointed out to me in the 60s that a lot of these miraculous escapes from certain death were the result of a .22 bullet fired under controlled conditions on a range. All the better to play the hero back home. And to be fair, in many cases he was right. A .303 or German equivalent would have blown seven shades of s***e out of that watch, and the initial impact point would not have been flat.

The Post Office are the worst offenders as they charge clearance fee + VAT on non dutiable items

9705000090 is 5% rated and covers coins, although it could be debateable when it comes to gold and possibly silver.

The HS code also tells customs what dutiable band the contents fall into. It would be useful if we could determine the lowest rated commodity code for customs and pass on that info to sellers before they ship.

I prefer acetone but recently had a problem. I've bought a large quantity of uncirculated old round pounds that have spent their entire lives in plastic flips and look a bit shabby. A new litre of 100% acetone was bought via fleabay but didn't seem to be doing any good. As I was working outside anyway I decided to leave 2cc of acetone in a shallow dish, and see how long it took to evaporate. 37 hours. I've got my money back, but there is some misdescribed stuff out there.

No, it appears on some early medieval English jetons. It's past pub closing time so the memory is fallible but I think Edward II and one other English king used this symbol.

You've picked a hard one to crack. The reverse is described as a lis-tipped cross in tressur/Croix fleurdelisée en tressure. Along with the Ecu de France probably the most common known jeton design. I've played with the image but all I get is SURMATENT, which makes no sense in either Latin or middle French. I put this as late middle ages and the best reference for these types is Feuardent rather than Michiner but it's going to be a long haul. Something for me to do as the nights draw in. Also with your permission I'll put your images out into the jeton community where somebody may easily recognise the type.

Xylene is probably one of the most hazardous things you could use. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2996004/

Table or wardrobe pomander, late C19th. Can't tie it down too much geographically but the design says either Tirol or mebbe Croatia.

Spotted this on another forum, but it concerns an old friend of ours. Not sure who's to blame here. Is the slab genuine? Because the coin certainly isn't. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/-/232964403056/

Gold on silver (silver gilt) is technically called Vermeil. There are instances where this term is applied to the much rarer gilt bronze.

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/news/article-4647352/Royal-Mint-buys-stake-Sovereign-Rarities-Limited.html

As far as I remember we talked about it here but can't find the thread. Sovereign are in a joint venture with RM to sell off some of the mint's goodies.

This non American also knew about the 555 code

Check out the phone code

Someone's hoping to snare one of his relatives.

How can I break this gently? He's sold ten from this latest batch. I've been seeing this same listing for longer than I care to remember. He's certainly ticking all the buttons with his SEO.

I price the coins for my local Age and British Heart shops. Keep it reasonable and they sell fairly quickly.

Another counterfeit from the same shoot. 1774 halfpenny that's 1.1 gram underweight and the date is unusual.

That's the answer I was hoping for. Evasion or counterfeit?

A picture might help.

I've been trying out a new camera set up for coins and using some hard to capture pieces to test focus. When I checked the results, I thought I saw this as a 1773/3 although I had it listed as Obv. B, Rev 2. Any thoughts (apart from the fact that it's a washer 🙄)