bagerap

Thanks all. I'm surprised that so much detail survives after nearly 50% weight loss.

This was in a mixed lot. 29.5 x 1.2 mm 5.2 gr Scan enhanced to show detail. At first I thought it had been put in a hydraulic press, but the diameter would be way bigger. And the weight's weird. I'm thinking maybe play money, any ideas? Bob

I like this: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=150835884823&clk_rvr_id=363371850122#ht_1005wt_1124 except for the starting price.

So, I'm not the only one having a bad day at the office with fleabay onanists.

First question has to be where and how were they stored? It isn't unheard of for a form of electrolysis to occur naturally given the right circumstances. Salts may have been exchanged

"When everyone has signed up, who are you supposed to sell to? " About ten years ago IIRC, there was a pyramid called something like Women Empowering Women. It was centred on a small geographical area, the Isle of Wight. Anyway although a runaway success for the founders, so much so that it soon spread beyond its point of origin; it became blindingly obvious that everyone on the Isle of Wight was trying to sell to each other. Press attention ensued and the scheme went the way of all "guaranteed business ventures". Splat!

I was watching that. I defer to Debbie.

ISN = International Silver Network. I sold something to one of their wonks last year. He then spent about two months trying to sell slabbed crap to me! I had to tell him that my policy vis à vis slabs involved large portions of Dremel.

10th July.

It may sound like an urban myth, but it's true. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geotagging However, you can turn this facility off. Check your phone's handbook.

Twenty crowns sounds like Turks & Caicos Islands. Mostly dreadful stuff, but people do buy them (thank God)

We've been here before: http://www.predecimal.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=4257 I sold a Heinz last year for £775.00. Wonder if it's this one?

Been using Debbie's grading scale...Very F**ked to Extremely F**ked! 5mithyg clearly has choice crap. However, one cannot fault his description that it would stand out very well in the purchaser's collection. Maybe he's a reincarnation of the guy in Cornwall who used to have this sort of material by the bucketload. Can't remember his id though (cdsteve(?) or something like that. Caused elderly gent to spit coffee all over his laptop, amusing the lovely Mrs. Bagerap greatly.

'rich even rose-chocolate patina' I may have to nick that for the next time I'm flogging off some dreadful continental tat I have some interesting minor German States to dispose of.

They got it right on the cheaper and nastier version:

No, is trick coin. The engraved side translates to summat .like: " Decree No 1817 of the 3rd September 1870" which was when the enabling legislation for the new currency was passed. Nickel, 27 mm.

Unusual one, initials RW? on a Brazilian 100 Reis 1871:

Whatever the taxman wants from me, he can have. In Churchill crowns and '67 pennies.

The curse of "Free Insertion weekend" strikes again. Up to 100 items, starting price above 99p and no insertion fees. Seven days later and there's acres of tatty overpriced crap to wade through, just in case someone's offering a real coin by mistake.

I've just had a UK buyer with nearly 5000 feedbacks ask: 1) What kind of tracking system I use 2) Can I put the item description on the outside of the packet. (sure it's a 1 ounce silver round) 3) Can I send him a VAT invoice by email. Given his options, he then pays for second class, unrecorded. I paid the extra 86p recorded fee myself as this had all the signs of a claim in the making.

Debbie, you've got yourself a good one. You don't see too many hand engraved Masonic Pennies. The usual rubric is something like: "They received every man a penny". Wages, probably not. Just a little more of the ritual. HTWSSTKS is an acronym for: Hiram, Tyrian Widow's Son, Sendeth To King Solomon. Masonic charitable works are often referred to as being for "the Widow's Son"

Instead of which they wasted money on 300 hours of an escape artiste's time to find out that he couldn't replicate locking himself inside a bag. 300 sodding hours!!!?????

Though to be fair to the seller, who's done me no harm in the past, he did start at 99p. 56 bids later its all gone a bit gaga.

This one surprised me: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1961-UK-HALFPENNY-COIN-NON-EXISTANT-DATE-AA36-/130685379636?pt=UK_Coins_BritishMilled_RL&hash=item1e6d74a434#ht_3946wt_1044 It all looks very altered, but look at the price!

5/7 with some guesswork. The two I failed were the only two I genuinely knew the answers to if I'd thought about it. DOH