Paulus

Best I can do for an Anne R&P from my collection (shilling) ... I am sure others can do much better but my pockets are not deep enough, or I wasn't collecting 20 years ago!

Thanks you guys! First birthday since I joined the forum, and to think I used to try and get by without it! I shall buy something unusual and post it when I have it

Blimey that's worth over £3K!

Can't get pic to upload. That would be hugely expensive! Wouldn't it? What is the most valuable/rare one you have and the hardest to find do you think? I have the £5 Elizabeth 1st and £2 Bank of England

Do any forum members collect these? I have been given a couple and it started me looking at various sites and the Bay, do they have any numismatic appeal do people think?

It was quite funny, the cow looked a bit like Chris!

Wonderful magazine even though I haven't bought one for 25 years. My favourite was Buster Gonads and his unfeasibly large testicles. Brilliant. Terry F**kwit and Top Tips had me laughing out loud on the bus For those that it has passed by, this is the kind of 'Top Tip' (very very silly): "A mouse trap placed on top on of your alarm clock will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep"

Wonderful magazine even though I haven't bought one for 25 years. My favourite was Buster Gonads and his unfeasibly large testicles. Brilliant. Terry F**kwit and Top Tips had me laughing out loud on the bus

I know many of you love debating these things, is this coin worthy of GVF-nEF money In Your Humble Opinions? Thanks

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I really hate it when there is competition from Forum members for quality eBay items I have been watching, this one's mine!

A £2 collection is a great way to start, affordable and 30+ different commemarative coins so far, beware of the postage if buying on eBay

I've noticed this myself Nick. My normal pictures are bigger than ebay enlarged ones which to me is quite strange.......I've enlarged my own pictures on ebay only to find they are smaller than the ones i've uploaded or are on the main auction picture. I completely sympathise with eBay because their storage requirements must be gargantuan, but for me - if the button doesn't result in an enlarged image then don't call it 'enlarge'. Here, here! A huge bugbear for me too! Does anyone know how to get the eBay 'enlarge' feature to work? I imagine it's an extra cost somewhere ...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/230855983448;jsessionid=FABC6E713C7654FA60F907E3DE95042C?ru=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fsch%2Fi.html%3F_sacat%3D0%26_from%3DR40%26_nkw%3D230855983448%26_rdc%3D1

Give or take a thousand years or so!

I also like the 2x2 Lighthouse self-adhesive coin holders, I store them in Lighthouse albums. The one thing I don't like is that you can't read the edge legends ...

I also like the 2x2 Lighthouse self-adhesive coin holders, I store them in Lighthouse albums. The one thing I don't like is that you can't read the edge legends ...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/300785097856;jsessionid=FC9E7E191ABE14B1B1FF86357C0F40E6?ru=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fsch%2Fi.html%3F_sacat%3D0%26_from%3DR40%26_nkw%3D300785097856%26_rdc%3D1

Hi Penguin, welcome to the forum! With reference to your original question, I never upload pics here, rather I link to my Photobucket pics, you can do the same with all similar online photo sites, many of which are free I believe ... Do you specialise in any particular area? And sorry to be ignorant but what or who was HB?? I don't wish to confirm Dave's impression of my antiquity but I think HB refers to a pencil - in other words Penguin is admitting to being someone unused to "this 'ere modern technology" (my apologies if I've read it wrong, Penguin!) Possibly, but I also wondered if he/she meant to type 'HD' for High Definition!

Hi Penguin, welcome to the forum! With reference to your original question, I never upload pics here, rather I link to my Photobucket pics, you can do the same with all similar online photo sites, many of which are free I believe ... Do you specialise in any particular area? And sorry to be ignorant but what or who was HB??

Welcome to the forum, those are fantastic examples!

It would make sense to collect the scarcer dates/types at the moment and wait for the bullion price to recede before picking up the common ones. They are never going to be in short supply unless there is a government inspired and legally backed impounding and melting of private gold. Prices being what they are at the moment you are only paying a few times bullion for what are quite scarce coins in some instances. A mintage of a couple tens of thousands only costs 3 or 4 times that of one which has a mintage of millions. It isn't until you get to the quantities available of the 1920S and 1819 that collector demand way outstrips supply. Even the Ansell sovereigns are not rare in low grade, though go for silly prices. I am finding this thread very interesting and would like to make some points and add some questions for our undoubted experts! I am not remotely worried about the CGT on coins as I don't expect ever to make over £10,000 profit on a single coin ... if I ever did I would be delighted and I am sure would get away with not declaring it! - a nice problem to have! I have not yet regarded coins as an investment and have been careful to distinguish collecting/the hobby decisions from investment decisions, as all the best advice would recommend I would seriously consider investing in gold and silver coins if and when the price of such precious metals fell back to their pre 2009 prices, as I would confidently expect to make a good (tax-free) return on them in the medium to long term, expecting them to occasionally return to current levels sometime in the next 10 years, and if not, to certainly beat other (taxable) investment options My question is - if you invest in gold and/or silver coins that are priced at/worth say 1.5-2X bullion value (sovereigns are a prime example), how much are they affected by fluctuations in the bullion price? For example, buy a sovereign for £500/$800 now, assuming that is the going rate for that date/rarity/condition, and the bullion price of gold halves to $860, what might be the effect on the value of that coin? Is there an inherent content value built in for coins that have significant precious metal content, but are collectable beyond their metal content? I hope the question makes sense, it is the same question for pre 1947 silver!

I don't suppose the disposal of a valuable coin collection in the latter years would be tax-free, would it? It would be if you don't tell 'em! Does anyone know the CGT position? Are gold coins exempt and others not?

I'm sure I read somewhere that it was resolved and he was not out of pocket? Lets ask the Horses Mouth................Paul, what happened with that piece of shite you bought? Yes it was resolved eventually, and I was fully refunded ... got it ex Downies, I happened to be in Melbourne in February and took the coin to them where they (the top coin auctioneer) gave it a clean bill of health - mainly on the basis that it was a lower grade than the fakes they had seen and their seller was reputable. Then I took some advice on here (yours I think Dave, thanks), and with Rob et al repeatly casting (!) doubt on it I sent it to be graded/authenticated by CGS. It came back as dodgy and on the strength of that I got my refund, so CGS worked for me on that occasion. I did post at that time, but thanks again to everyone who advised me!

Hilariously the seller has named himself The 'Ring' Master!!