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Chris, did Michael Williams give a Liverpool address?

I'm not too good at this, but possibly Indian. Maybe Bhopal C17th.

I've been looking for the Louis XIV elephant jeton for some time, haven't come across one in such good nick. Nice find.

If you hadn't noticed, ebay's changing it's price structure for private sellers next Monday. Probably the best thing is that their doing away with the "100 free auction only listings per month provided the start price is less than £1" option. So with a bit of luck that'll weed out a good percentage of the unsaleable grot that currently clogs up the pages. A new flat fee insertion rate of £0.35 will also keep the s***e levels down too. "Every month you’ll get to list up to 20 items in any category (excluding Motors) for free - these free listings can be in auction or fixed price format and can have any start price · Every month you’ll get to schedule up to 20 of your listings for free - this means you choose when they go live · Insertion fees after your first free 20 listings will be £0.35 per listing" So in effect there could be a potential 80% fewer washers, road kill coins and Christmas cracker rejects appearing.

In the sixties (yes I do remember them, God help me) there was a vague public awareness of KN pennies but not much else. Certainly no press interest. I can't even recall seeing wanted ads for pre 1920 silver until the early 70s.

"1788 A.D England King George III Gold Spade Type Half Guinea Coin / Gaming Token" Nothing that a bit of punctuation couldn't sort out. Because, to do otherwise would be unethica immor wrong cheati Saxbys.

I also live in Poole and will happily buy that seller a pint.

Irish surname. In fact, they both are.

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This could be the result of poor quality control of the Indian mints (a proud tradition which continues to this day). Nearly all Indian error coins show signs of heavy circulation, as long as it's spendable: use it. But I have seen plenty of forged Eddy rupees and half rupees. I think this may well be one of them, general overall mushiness and the position of the lettering with regard to the bust.

Looking back through his feedback, he hasn't sold the same coin (date/denomination) multiple times, not eventwice. Maybe genuine?

Every two weeks or so, ebay.uk has a weekend giveaway of 100 free insertions. And yes, I know that it guarantees that you'll see even more terrible old c**p for sale a week later but offers like this pale into insignificance in the face of the North American version. http://announcements.ebay.com/2014/03/all-sellers-from-march-26-31-get-5000-more-free-listings-auction-style-or-fixed-price/?_trksid=p3984.m2301.l3955

We have 7 & 8. I have 7 and love it. My wife, who is the household tech genius, has 8. And hates every minute of the time she has to use it. Her opinion of it is unprintable although she concedes that it does have some merit in hand-held applications.

At Blackbushe Airport Sunday market there is sometimes a very scruffy small stall, run by a very scruffy small man who knows a bit about coins. Rarely has anything above fine but his prices are realistic. He also has a fair bit of London Mint/ Westminster Mint/ Pobjoy tat that he always describes as cr*p and prices it accordingly. In short, he's honest, knowledgeable and cheap. And you don't get many of those these days.

The bad news is, you're a collector. The good news however is, you're a collector.

It was in the late 60s, maybe very early 70s. Sometime early in the morning, just about dawn, we were lined up at traffic lights and the police driver leant over and said "how fast are those anyway?" The upshot was that we both bombed along the A40 from Hillingdon Circus to Hoovers in Perivale. at which point I backed off. Discretion being the better part of not getting nicked, but I had about 15 mph advantage over him most of the time.

As a young man with lamentably few driving skills and arguably too much money I owned a Sunbeam Tiger which had a Ford V8 lump. .Great on the straight but useless on a curve unless you had a bag or two of cement atop the rear axle. Had a wonderful burn up with a police Daimler Dart on the Western Avenue, which I politely let him win.

Taxi driving cousin thinks that you'd be OK but be prepared to remove rear wheel as well.

I had visions of typical London cabbie (at least three in my family) saying: " Can't take you Sarf of the River wiv that bike, Guv"

French silver jeton de presence

One for Richard maybe: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=201034375595&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:GB:1120 All the provenance on the reverse as well. A real BP bargain

Given that the name is predecimal.com you don't need to be Sherlock Ho Um. Whoops

My wife's just remarked that I've spent the last half hour gazing at Garrett's Queen Anne farthing. It is absolutely bloody captivating. Who was the artist?

£12 delivered?

I shall be seeing Ernie first thing in the morning. He's still very active, although he seems to take a fortnight's holiday every six weeks. So, the game must be good.