Gollum

Erm that is a rolleicord V Peck, mind you I also have a number of Russki copies of the hass and other brands here as well. Oh and a number of them new fangled Yashica Mat's and canons and erm, yeah, enough !. What was the difference between the 'Flex and the 'Cord anyway? I never used any TLR except the aforementioned Lubitel, so I'm not an expert. What I do remember - and lusted after at the time - was the very nice little 35mm compact that Rollei brought out in the early 80s. My first 35mm camera was the Zorki 4 - a very competent imitation of the pre-war Leica III. No lever wind, no meter, and a shutter speed dial from hell, but a great rangefinder and some very good lenses. I still have it, and its standard 50mm lens (the 135mm and 35mm lenses must have got sold off years ago). The flex had better lenses, bodies, auto cocking and wind of the film ( cords had a knob to wind te film so was not as fast as a flex when shooting), the cords also had no metering on them and the view screen was not as good or clear. Other than that just personal preferences I guess, I like the cords as they are cheaper to buy, but if I was to buy a rollei and mmoney was not a thing I would have a flex, I have a small 35mm Rollei round here somewhere, and one of those russian spy cameras as well, though how a spy hid that thing I don't know, they aren't exactly small. I have to go in the loft this week to sort it all out for selling so will take some pics before I do.

Dear Ebay police, this letter is to tell you that accumulator, ColinG and Azda are all the same person and are shill bidding on a penny coin owned by Rob. Right, now their taken care of - £5.

Back off boys lol 31 quid Typical, always the rich that get the goods.

Not ebay but Put that in your pocket and then ask why eveyone is leaving the lift !. http://coins.delcampe.net/page/item/id,145769513,var,GREAT-BRITAIN-1-FARTING-1908-1217,language,E.html

+10% on top from me.

I nearly fell of my chair then. Clarification from a tax officer !.

just the domain name first, when you get webhosting it wil usually be part of that package that you can set up an mx I do anyway, but I used to host my own sites for free with freedns direction and run my own mail server till BT got snotty about the open port.

Its something i'm definately thinking about, but not as anything for selling, probably on the similar lines what accumulator has done then perhaps sometime in the future eventually start selling. I realise it can be time consuming, but right now i don't think i have the nerve to sit here and plug away at a site, i spend enough time on the internet searching coins that if i spent even more time sorting a website that their might be a divorce on the cards (actually now i'm thinking about it) lol I have most of my pictures so far apart from the Pennies after my USB stick went tits up, i recovered most of it apart from the Penny pictures and will get around to redoing these shortly. So i guess design and style is what i need to work out, saying that though, i suppose a website would also safeguard the pictures i already have if the stick ever went tits up. So just to confirm, i'd need a domain name first of all (whats the cost of these and where do i i register one)? Then a webhost. I get mine from LCN.COM if its a .co.uk domain I get them for about £6 for two years, if you want a .com domain go to godaddy or such in the states and its a lot cheaper, I find that .com purchases in the uk are a lot lot more to buy.

Seb, I noted all the above and will do as instructed regarding the settings, after posting I went and had a good in depth look around, I am glad to see that many of the sellers are selling their run of the mill circulated stuff for peanuts ( well lot lower than the 99p ebay minimum ! ) so that pleases me immensely, however I have one further criticsim, there is no shopping basket, I went into one sellers shop, saw a lot of coins I liked at 20-50p and decided that I might like to buy them as fillers, but it means clicking on each coin and then clicking buy, I find that a little annoying, can you put a shopping basket on the site please. So far contrary to my initial post, it seems a nice site apart from feeling clunky to me, that may be down to being used to the ebay format, I don't know yet, but if you can promise to keep the forgeries out or at least declared as such in their own section then we can have a happy partnership as venue and buyer.

Thats my kind of talk, they probably got enough "Tax" on it in its lifetime if it has chaned hands a number of times in and out of the country.

Seb, sorry, I took a look at the site just now, and I find it very unhelpfull and clunky, not to say that some if not a lot of the coins I looked at are way to high in price compared to the same item on ebay, 1877 shilling for over 108 euros !. The format is, I don't know, chunky is the only way I can explain it, and I also do not like the fact that if I want to see a price in sterling I have to run and convert it. If I just happen to log in and find a coin I like that has seconds or so to go, I don't want to lose it because I have to do a conversion, i would rather see it in front of me in my currency and click buy fast. Having said that I registered out of decency for your posts and the fact I spotted a nice 1898 shilling after I said the above !. Next criticism. Why would I want to credit my account with £4 to become verified, my paypal account is already verified to me and my home address and that is how I pay, if it's good enough for them it should be goood enough for you.

Erm that is a rolleicord V Peck, mind you I also have a number of Russki copies of the hass and other brands here as well. Oh and a number of them new fangled Yashica Mat's and canons and erm, yeah, enough !.

ESC is ok but I think a little dated now. The rarity scale is a fair reflection, though milled is not my thing now, but like the Spink price guide the ESC is only a guide too with regard to rarity, for example a few years back I owned a 1825 shillig with the roman I in date which is classed as an R7 in ESC...hmm R7 states one or two examples but I have seen probably at least a dozen the amount of these in the last decade...so worth thinking on!! Okay, will probably just stick with the Spink 2012 and Coincraft 1999 that I've ordered for now, and will try to "digest" these first. BTW I found the Introduction section of Davies very educational, especially the Historical outline, hope there's more useful background material in Coincraft and Spink, not just coin lists (though they're useful too, of course). Whatever else you think of Coincraft or their catalogue, there is a phenomenal amount of useful background information in there. Not just good articles as appendices, but in the introduction to each denomination and reign. It has the added bonus of recommending what grades are best collected in each series. It's a mineshaft of information. But which copy of coincraft is best, the latest ( 2000 ) or previous ones, not all newer versions of something are better than the past ones.

next to you're whips and spanish fly cream? You been peeking in the wifes wardrobe !.

That poor rolleicord is still waiting for me to put some new leatherette on it !. The leather has been in my drawer waiting for at least a year now

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BOYS-TOY-GADGET-COOL-THIS-USB-MICROSCOPE-/270896224208?_trksid=p4340.m185&_trkparms=algo%3DDLSL%252BSIC.NPJS%26its%3DI%26itu%3DUCI%252BUA%26otn%3D10%26pmod%3D220930149024%252B220930149024%26po%3D%26ps%3D63%26clkid%3D5752971494754612965 Damn...I missed that one. Thats ok Peter, I missed an identical one yesterday for £6.99 All in.. Well I couldn't make my mind up on whether I should or not and lost it.

"The trouble is if detectorists don't record then they are accused of stashing hoards of treasures away, and self interest" Yep and the archeologist does it with approval.

Prime example of a museum / state dept "keeping national heritage safe!. http://germanherald.com/news/Germany_in_Focus/2011-12-08/1142/Minting_It

http://www.coinworld.com/articles/ban-on-sales-of-replicas-starts-on-ebay-feb-2/

I think it is false economy to think small in terms of reference material. Unless you are determined to only collect within a fixed range in perpetuity, having books which only cover the existing collecting criteria means any expansion will result in you having to buy literature which in all probability will also duplicate your current books. An added advantage of having literature outside your current field is that you can do a bit of reading and maybe find that it gives you inspiration to broaden your collection. Very few collections can ever be completed. Currency issues over a narrow range possibly, but beyond that you will in all likelihood struggle to find a few rarities. I can almost guarantee that you will see things outside your current range of 1816-1936 which you find atttractive and wouldn't mind collecting. Post 1816 there are a few killer dates for whichever denomination you choose. For halfcrowns it is the 1839 currency issue, though a decent 1828 will be problematic too. Shillings come unstuck with an 1850, florins with 1854, sixpences you are stuck with the solitary 1847 - so which lucky person is going to be the one that completes the series? For the moment it appears to be quite easy to say that only 1816-1936 are collected, but in time, as it becomes more difficult to fill the gaps, the temptation to diversify gains momentum. View having reference material for both current and potential future collecting periods as a means of problem solving. I have to say that I was stuck on collecting decimal coinage, primarily because of finances and they are so easy to get, however after a visist from Rob and some other words of wisdom by Peter, I then started to look at other coins of other eras, the truth is I like ALL coins even if I berate French ones as junk !, they still do some nice stuff and will keep them if found. So I am now in a phase where I love the shilling, mainly from Victorias era, but any will do as they are all shillings, I was then sent some coins from George III's reign by forum friends which also got my interest, this has culminated in my having to seek out literature on various types to the point that many may think I am just wandering in the dark or leaping all over the place when I am not, as Rob says, a diversity of literature is a good thing, and if for no other reason I will seek out all manner of reading material even if not in relation to what I like most because it may be that one day I will change focus and then find those books etc I want will then be out of print or also be more expensive at that time. If I had the finances I would in all honesty collect hammered as well, sadly that is not a reality for me at present even if I do like the look of them, but may be in the future as well, I have a thing for druid coins as well, but those I can not find from my armchair, so maybe one day I will have to leave it and face going further afield. I say collect ALL books, and you can also look at it in the light that even if you never use them, they will also become a collectors item or appreciate in value with age.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BOYS-TOY-GADGET-COOL-THIS-USB-MICROSCOPE-/270896224208?_trksid=p4340.m185&_trkparms=algo%3DDLSL%252BSIC.NPJS%26its%3DI%26itu%3DUCI%252BUA%26otn%3D10%26pmod%3D220930149024%252B220930149024%26po%3D%26ps%3D63%26clkid%3D5752971494754612965

LCN.com do webhosting for about £2 - £3 per month or £20 something a year, so maybe when the year is up I will change host !. Customers can be sneaky too.

The only thing I coud find on HMRC site or whatever it is called is in relation to gold or bullion coins, and someting about other coins of value as collectible but no VAT rate, only soomething about if the coin is of lower value due to it being damaged or worn and of less value as a collectors item. They do not make it easy to surf or find things on their site do they, typical Gov't misdirection or obfuscation so the average person gives up looking.

Thanks, Azda! You really will have to forgive me here, as my knowledge of these things are ZERO, but are there any reasons why a camera is better than a scope that could do the full job? Also, was there a particular scope you were referring to? Many thanks for any further info. Sometimes a scope can get closer than the camera could, this is only to check if a letter or digit is stamped over something else, that's the ONLY reason i use it, camera is for pictures alone. Gollum mentioned a usb scope in another thread somewhere and i gave him another ebay number to which the scope i have relates to which is selling on ebay just now at 20 quid or so http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/USB-Microscope-1-3-Megapixel-Camera-Traveller-/180797585224?pt=UK_BOI_Medical_Lab_Equipment_Lab_Equipment_ET&hash=item2a18603748

Sneaky? Why sneaky? It looks a good deal at $10 for the year, i might give it a nibble myself. I consider it sneaky putting a direct debit into a link without informing the person clicking it, amazing what companies do these days.