Gollum

Erm what link, I didn't see one, and i just emailed you too. The one in the post above Sneaky aren't they !. Ahh well, i will leave it for a few months then cancel it, let you get your freebie first.

Erm what link, I didn't see one, and i just emailed you too.

Kendal Mint Cake = that's the prince of mints :-) ooh only if I can eat them of Naked Felicity herself

and how do they know you sent me ?. and how do I stop the autorenew, is it an option presented to you.

I suddenly have a lot of foreign relatives

Ok so I got a new domain now I may want to look at hosting for it, so who is the cheapest about, answers on the back of a silver threepenny bit please

They had been placed in "Spring water", silly idea really. Spring loaded tins are not fun.

I would like to see a site where the info is upated freely by such as Rob or Peter or Dave Groom and others here and is not just done by the large companies. One that would be freely available to download by forum members and the like. realtime info on new finds, errors, or the such. Dream on huh.

Hi Peter, I actually got some today in the post. a set of Fuzion rogue 650 ones. So its all go now. How have you been keeping , ok I hope ? My girls are studying (14&16) so they have exclusive use of the laptops to catch up on work so, I've been putting my farthings in my new cabinet. and watching a few DVD's with my wife. Glad to hear you are ok, i myself am having fun reading and collecting Vikki shillings and some other things, like finding someone to rip down my large bits of old mahogany window frames etc into planks for me.

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Oh you have got me started now !. I despise most archeologists, as far as I am concerned they are nothing more than self serving hypocrits and egotists, their ardent belief in the fact that only they are intelligent or superior enough to preserve or catalogue a coin gets my back up, it is nothing more than to promote their own positions and perceived importance as the upholders of our natinal heritage ( many of such things having come from foreign lands so really aren't our heritage! ) they want it all for themselves and fame, one word comes to mind about most of them, it begins with w and ends with s. I recall a lot of the tricks they pulled in the 70's with leaflets calling detectorists thieves and how they were robbing the countryside and how you were asked to phone the police and report them or not let them onto your land. They are for want of a better description by myself and in my mind nothing more than detectorists without a detector, a plague on those who actually do do the work in the cold and wet out of their own pocket. They of course would not dream of going out on a cold wet day to do such unless they had a team of followers and a packet of money donated from some institute or rich person, they take what they proclaim ou heritage and hide it away, later to sell it to anyone who can bail out their failed museums or such. They are nothing more than leeches with a funny and recognised title from some educational establishment. I agree with Peck, it's spot on. If it wasn't for those detectorists much of the "history" and national heritage those clowns called archeologists whine about would never have seen the light of day and they would never have had anything to write their fame seeking thesis about. I'm stopping because I am more angry than logical now and I am losing the plot !, arghhhhhh.

Ok so all of you that would like to see it, what would you want a web site to show you in reference to a coin and its value, what layout etc.

All editions are an improvement on the previous ones and 1992 is the last printed, but anything in the 1971 would still be valid. Alan Rayner died a few years ago, so there will be no 6th edition. Like all reference material, it has omissions and many rarity values are demonstrably incorrect, but it is still a valuable addition to the library, listing as it does a reasonably comprehensive summary of the milled silver coins. It doesn't go into as much detail as Davies, but covers a longer period. Thank you Rob. I just got this http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/310369811829?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649 £7 isnt a lot for educational paperwork. Must go look up Davies. Doh ! duh ! was I blonde the last time you saw me. That's actually the 1974 edition - same as the one I've got. It's a useful book especially for the early milled series (Davies is better from 1816), and is virtually the defining work for pre-19th Century milled silver. Though as Rob says, such books are always going out of date - however it's a great learning tool, and the rarities it lists are all genuinely rare even though more have been discovered since. Arrived today and it's not in bad condition so I am happy, lots of educational material to read now. Should catch up with some of you in about erm 9-10 years rather than never now.

Hi Peter, I actually got some today in the post. a set of Fuzion rogue 650 ones. So its all go now. How have you been keeping , ok I hope ?

Very, VERY, nice! Azda, what is your photography set-up? I'm in the middle of researching a good set-up for myself, just for coin photography. Do you know enough about the hobby to offer any suggestions? Coinery, you may want to look at the ebay link Gollum has above, thats more of a professional setup for taking coin picture, camera seems mounted. I personally do nothing special, just the natural light (outside) I have a blacony on the house with a large ledge which is where i go (sometimes freezing my nuts off if the weather is cold and i have a few coins to do. I think basically its allabout the feel of your camera and knowing when the picture is right. Larger coins you can get quite close to, smaller coins need a little more distance or else they can look blurry after cropping Well if I am honest, I have all the things needed to do it properly apart from a macro lense for my canon digital, I was thinking of buying a cheap usb camera just for fun, and I have a light box in my darkroom that I can put coins on for pics if I can be bothereed to go into the loft, so if Coinery wants to grab that then I wont be moaning at him.

I like that one. Shame it wouldn't come unglued from the screen it would been in my box rapido. , incidently azda, will any of the cheap usb microscopes on ebay be ok for coins like that blue digital thing you were talking about. The one i bought was called Traveller, it's nothing special, but it does the job for looking at anything you can't see in hand like the C over inverted C 2d i recently posted on the forum. I paid €30 new, a friend of mine got the same one on ebay late last year for 18 quid i think it was overkill then http://www.ebay.co.u...605910369268540 This is what i've got 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 that was on my watch list

I like that one. Shame it wouldn't come unglued from the screen it would been in my box rapido. , incidently azda, will any of the cheap usb microscopes on ebay be ok for coins like that blue digital thing you were talking about. The one i bought was called Traveller, it's nothing special, but it does the job for looking at anything you can't see in hand like the C over inverted C 2d i recently posted on the forum. I paid €30 new, a friend of mine got the same one on ebay late last year for 18 quid i think it was overkill then http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Carl-Zeiss-Tessovar-Micro-Photography-Unit-C35M-Camera-Collection-Only-/280807968214?_trksid=p4340.m1374&_trkparms=algo%3DPI.WATCH%26its%3DC%252BS%26itu%3DUCC%26otn%3D5%26ps%3D63%26clkid%3D5739605910369268540

No, but it's definately BU, just ask Peckris I am defo interested in it even if it is french carp , mainly because of the date ( fire of london and all that ) and it's condition. almost certainly a French Jeton - Louis XIV There are hundreds of different types, a field of study on their own. Some are rare, but most average circulated ones go for €15-25 on Ebay.fr French coins and jetons are fun!!! Hard to identify from the awful photo, I would leave this one alone, looks brassoed to me If you really want one dated 1666 try this link or here Thanks, ugly arent they , but I thnk I found what it is, is it the same as this do you think. http://cgi.ebay.fr/TB-JETON-CUIVRE-1666-BATIMENTS-LOUIS-XIV-/200662211948?pt=Fr_GW_Monnaie_&hash=item2eb8665d6c Actually I am cruising that site looking for something nice now, but its those horrible euros and the conversions from sterling I dont like it.

I like that one. Shame it wouldn't come unglued from the screen it would been in my box rapido. , incidently azda, will any of the cheap usb microscopes on ebay be ok for coins like that blue digital thing you were talking about.

No, but it's definately BU, just ask Peckris I am defo interested in it even if it is french carp , mainly because of the date ( fire of london and all that ) and it's condition.

Not a laugh but can anyone identify it. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Old-Copper-Brass-coin-dated-1666-Little-known-/280804306132?pt=UK_Coins_European_RL&hash=item41613dacd4

I think that is disgusting, if you have no other way of importing them other than by Royal Mail service then you are surely being forced to pay an admin fee you did not agree to, that is as far as I can see a contract you did not enter into willingly. Surely that can be tested in a court. What if you paid it directly to the inland revenue or customs or whoevr it is, are they still entitled to charge you ?.

This isn't elitist, rather common sense. Buying blind is the easiest way to make purchases you later regret. For all its benefits, eBay is also the repository for most of the people on this planet who are incapable of grading, or at times even identifying what it is they are selling. Good pictures are a must if you are going to make a purchase on eBay and as an aside, the prices realised are frequently too high for the item bought. Many times you can buy at a proper auction much cheaper than on eBay with quite a lot of the former items being sold on the latter site almost immediately after the auction because there are sufficient numbers of people willing to pay over the odds out there to make it feasible. Well I won't disagree with you Rob, you have been at it far longer than I ever will be, but having read a number of magazines and articles, buying blind may not be so bad or with blurred pictures etc if the fact that a number of rare or incorrectly attributed coins have been purchased for peanuts on ebay by sellers not knowing what they had, so someone is getting lucky if not me, likewise if you have a run of the mill ordinary coin worth no more than 20p and you put it on ebay, you and we al know you stuff the title with rareor hard to get and someone like me will part with silly wads of cash to get it from you. Maybe elitist was an incorrect description, maybe I should of said intelligent or a knowing collector knows that going to a decent shop whose expertise in coins is probably the best way to buy what you want, how you want, or the reverse, at a price you accept as reasonable. Most of what I have is what you may call run of the mill, and therefore I use ebay for prices, also because as you say, I can shove it straight back on if unhappy with it. I have now lost the plot and train of thought, so will be quiet before I dig the hole any bigger, not bad for a untrained monkey !

Well, me being Scottish (apparently we're tight) thought, to get around always paying tax in Gemrnay on every purchase outside the EU i'd get a friend of mine in the UK to buy a coin for me from the USA: Today he tells me the coin has arrived and parcelforce have gave him a wee letter saying i'm owing another 38 f*****g quid for tax, i would have been cheaper buying it myself and letting the Germans tax me 7% instead of the near 30% that i've had to pay. I really thought Germay was bad for taxation, but that just pales into insignifigance as to what i've just had to add to the UK Governments coffers. 7% German tax or near 30% UK tax, hmmmmm thats a toughie Thank you Azda, that has put paid to me buying any silver proofs from canada or australia, I liked the look of those year of the dragon coins or from USA.

So there I was, hungry and bored, nothing on the forum, so I went downstairs and rummaged about in the cupboards, i spotted a tin of sardines in a tin and thought "hmm lets give them a try" I prefer Pilchards ( same thing really ) in tomatoe sauce, but hey beggars can't be choosers and I have coins to buy, so it's student food for a month. As I stood there looking at them the cats came in and they knew what this tin meant, little sods. I started to open the tin very slowly so as not to spill the contents and the cats getting them ( I am very mean to my cats, I am the only one here who loves them )when all of a sudden the ruddy contents flew across the floor and the cats leapt at them and they where gone( this is all true by the way ). I was most aggrieved, I had lost my supper and the cats had gained. So, its too bed later hungry, I have no more left. Of course it wasn't my fault, and it wasn't the cats, but I do know what was to blame. I bet you can't all guess. Go on, it's dead easy to work it out.