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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.

I put this here because it's a kind of beginners question I always wanted to ask from the start, so if i buy a silver shilling from say malta, USA or the likes do you have to pay VAT or import duties on them. Is the VAT on historic collectors coins ( I think thats right ) only applcable to UK sold coins etc. Thanks

"Lastly - what's the best price guide book" . personally if I want the realistic value of a coin I look on the completed auctions on ebay. As a seller you want the max you think it is worth, as a customer the opposite, ebay whilst a ***t hole seems to speak for the various groups or grades of buyers. Unless of course your elitist and want to buy from a shop where you can see it in hand and judge it first. I am merely a peon.

michael winner dude!

Thank you oh wise one. Much appreciated.

here is one of them, best i can do.

Do you have any photos Garry? Are you getting frisky with me !, I like it , erm no I don't. I could do later but I can't gaurantee the quality.

Ok, here it is as best I can explain, I have old pennies that have very obvious Verdigris on them, but I also have coins that have what appear to be verdigris except it is unifrom and all over and shiny, more like a spray paint job in gloss paint. Is that verdigris too or a green patina ?.

Thank you Rob, I did look at one on ebay last night when I saw this, but it didn't seem to match so was wondering.

I have no clue as to what coin this is so can someone post a full picture please.

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.

I can get my hands on teh 1971/2 issue, is this still valid today. what has realistically changed since in the 1992 edition.

and can look forward to your wife ME spending it Watch out Garry - she's reading this over your shoulder she's behind me asleep so i'm safe for now

Stop prevaricating oh green one and scan away, I would like to read them also Mañana look up ! no thanks pigeons do things in your eyes, but yeah tomorrow is another day. To the Latins, it's always "tomorrow", especially if the missus needs a job doing my wife has italian blood so I am buggered, she likes a fight and i like peace.

Stop prevaricating oh green one and scan away, I would like to read them also Mañana look up ! no thanks pigeons do things in your eyes, but yeah tomorrow is another day.

and can look forward to your wife ME spending it

depends really......in terms of coins this may be good, but if youre still trying to flog youre missus on ebay, you may need to rethink the scale....accuracy....be diplomatic, she has feelings Ski you have no idea !, she admitted today she was fat, and needed to lose a couple of stone.... she piled into the xmas goodies big time. now she is paying.

Ok so what digital scales do i need and to what accuracy ?. is 0.1g enough of an accuracy ?

Stop prevaricating oh green one and scan away, I would like to read them also