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I have a non coin item finishing tonight on which I placed a Buy it Now of £95. I've just checked, and it's on £102. So, I'm puzzled, happy but puzzled. There was a bid of £80, then the next bidder went £100. Why did he not pull the trigger at £95? I've just realised that it can't be the incremental buying rate because the next bid was £2. Any ideas?
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Interestingly, he may have a few unusual coins, but he knows nothing about exonumia. And long may that continue. I've had a number of bargains from him.
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Value, as with all late C20th machine tokens is negligible British Machine Tokens, by Ralph Hayes, 1986 is probably the reference book you need.
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From memory, it's for a range of machines under the Monarch brand.,
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And quite a lot of Ancients. Islamic, Roman, Greek and Indo-Greek are, in the main really inexpensive. The trick is to try to learn the language of the coins. I'm doing semi OK with the Islamics thanks to a book our landlord Chris sells. Chinese is proving harder. A seasoned veteran on another site suggested that learning to read Japanese coins made it easier to then study Chinese. Not tried that yet, elderly grey cells need more stimulus.
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I'm glad you found Calgary Coins, when I tried it came up 404.
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At 51 mm, it's just a bit oversized. AFAIK there were only two fifty cash of this period over 48 mm and they were Hupu mint. With George's coin, I'm trying to reconcile the characters on the reverse. The top one is Chou and the two bottom are Shih and Wu, and I can't find a match, it doesn't help that I only have Krause to go on.
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This explains why you don't get large denomination cash coins http://www.coincommunity.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=234855
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The one you link to is not a coin, it's a "lucky" amulet. Worth around £1.00.
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It appears that the countermark was for use in Brasil, at least that's where they turn up.
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The Mountain Groan Collection is in the words of Coinwiki "more noted for quantity than quality". But if you ever need a picture of a coin, it's likely to be there. Grading on your coin has to be slightly subjective. Low face value coins seem to have to work harder in Africa for some reason, and I'd guess that yours has to be in the top 5% of the existing population.
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Found it. http://www.coinfactswiki.com/wiki/Brazil_1781_40_reis
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No offence meant MBE, although I hadn't quite grasped your intent. I used to deal extensively in African coinage and looking back on the records, it seems I've never handled one of these in any condition. One way to grade it is to find a good example of the Brazil 40 reis of 1753 which has the same design or there is an uncirculated 1781 40 reis in the Mountain Groan Collection, which should be googleable (is that a word?)
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MBE, the other forum you have asked on this subject have given you answers based on their experience of world coins, and more specifically coins of this type. Predecimal is the go to site for GB coinage. Respect other sites for their unique knowledge
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Today, the bar was at +/- £9200. Mrs B is very interested as I'm using money set aside for her new car, post March 1st. If this carries on, as I believe it will, for the next 8-10 days then I could cash out at around £10K. Not that I'd see any of that. Car expectations are being seriously ramped up.
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Is Bob Reis still selling? I've bought some strange and wonderful stuff from him years ago.
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And there is also the matter of a seller with zero feedback offering an item at that money. That's not possible on ebay.uk, new sellers are restricted, financially, as to what they can sell.
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Last week I decided to put my money where my mouth is and bought a 10 oz bar @ just over £8,500 inc. brokerage/delivery. In eight days it has risen approx £100 nett but if I were to buy it off the shelf today it would be around £9050. No increase in bank charges, although they want to increase my ceiling if I buy any more bullion. It was actually difficult to get it to the bank, Mrs. B was fascinated by it and wouldn't let go.
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It was reported on another forum. I'm trying to find the original thread.
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This one is known. Irregular denticles just below the thistle:
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Shanghai is getting ready to open after New Year, Hong Kong has been open for a week and showed an upward trend in the appetite for bullion. Tomorrow U.S. and Canadian bourses will be closed. I predict a riot! Go for gold.
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I b****y well hope so! I'm holding on to a bit more than I'd like. Silver's problem is that the main users are industrial. If the public aren't buying then manufacturers aren't producing. Warren Buffett seems to have faith, he's reportedly buying silver futures big time. BTW, he's also poured +/- $! billion into Phillips Petroleum so far this year. Although it's the refinery side he's plunged into, not production. All that cheap oil has to be refined eventually.
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I was thinking more of glitz bricks, 1Kg bullion. 4x 1Kg on 31st December 2015 £92,463.00 Today, £109,32.00 Raw prices without brokerage and handling. I'd personally like to have one or two 500gr. ingots in the mix, but that increases the outlay if only by 1%.
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Physical gold would be my bet for the next six months. When the markets resume in China after New Year it's likely that they'll resume buying gold (and desperately trying to flog whatever Beijing will allow them to sell) Last year the Chinese were taking physical possession of on average 4 tonnes gold a month. With the Hang Seng below 3000 and likely to fall without further government intervention I expect Chinese investors with no way of exporting funds to push demand skywards.
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To be fair, as all their debt is dollar denominated, Janet Yellen did them no favours with the rate rise but I believe that huge percentages of that debt have found their way to Deutsche Bank and BNP. Both of these institutions are regarded as critically overstretched and should one, or both, hit problems it could be Goodnight Vienna for Glencore.
