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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

Uh huh, I have the capability to make anything complicated including the use of an abacus

Wonder how much I will get ripped for. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260937397578

Ten sticks of dynamite hanging on a wall Ten sticks of dynamite hanging on a wall And if one stick of dynamite should accidentally fall There'd be no sticks of dynamite and no bleedin' wall (Thrown out of Scout Camp, our Liverpool troop was, for singing that round the campfire). Try the campfire with the French Foreign Legion you going to start singing Le Boudin for us then Az ?.

And just to be an idiot, more books. The early coins of America and the laws governing their issue. Comprising also descriptions of the Washington pieces, the Anglo-American tokens, many pieces of unknown origin of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and the first patterns of the United States mint (1875) by Sylvester s crosby http://www.archive.org/download/cu31924029793472/cu31924029793472.pdf An Arrangement of Provincial Coins, Tokens, and Medalets: Issued in Great Britain, Ireland, and ... (1798) by James Conder http://ia600303.us.archive.org/18/items/anarrangementpr00condgoog/anarrangementpr00condgoog.pdf American colonial history illustrated by contemporary medals (1894) by C Wyllys Betts http://www.archive.org/download/americancolonial00bettuoft/americancolonial00bettuoft.pdf If you right click and save as they should come down as pdf files, they do for me anyway, quite interesting so far. click this too as normal http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=numismatics and follow the links, all good fun.

Spent most of my working life (as a histologist) working with these solvents and I'm still here, and I've worked with lots of things far nastier Wear gloves, use plastic forceps, use them outside or in a well ventilated area, avoid naked flames, and you'll be OK NB avoid nail varnish remover, can have unknown additives, my local pharmacy sell small (50ml) bottles of pure acetone, with is ample to soak a couple of coins in. Acetone evaporates quickly, so use a jar with a lid if you are planning on a soak rather than a quick dip Don't know where one would buy small quantities of xylene though, I used to buy it 25 litre drums, but if you do locate some ensure it is marked "sulphur free" if you are going any where near coins. David I once tried to buy a small 50ml bottle of acetone from Tesco's, they wanted some ridiculous price for it, I then got a 500ml from ebay for less + postage. I am surprised it came in the post as I thought it was a banned substance to post.

Happy birthday to the two old codgers I am currently watching one foot in the grave , how apt

However, cellulose thinners was what car body shops spent their entire lives working with until comparatively recently, and as an old car buff I have used it a lot and know of a lot of other people who have too. Most of them are still around... Meet someone who used to use it a lot including when he worked in a spray shop that painted, yes painted furniture a horrible duck egg green with it, the only mask I had given to me was one of those with a aluminum frame and cotton in it that you squeezed round the nose, I forget how many time I would sneeze green muck out of my nostrils and now the old lungs are knackered. Nasty stuff that thinners was.