copper123

I thought there was a embargo on south african goods at that time !!!!??????

I suppose we all learn in life from the "school of hard knocks" and in the end , we are all the same fish in a barrel ,so if one fish jumps out it learns it's lesson by dieing on the floor very painfully gasping for breath.

I find it strange he went mad and said I was wrong with the coin being cleaned , unless he is 135 years old (very unlikely) he will not have been the only person to own the coin so how can he state categorically that it's never been cleaned . In fact the coin looks like its been cleaned a good seventy or eighty years ago and is toning down so it has not affected the value that much to most collectors maybe knock 33% off

If you have no idea what two drunks are talking about your probably sober :D :D

We can be a little abrupt on here and tell non regulars what they don't really want to know , that is the hobby's problem as well and not only ours we will not waste time buttering people up and not telling them that a spade is a spade. Coin collectors almost immediately know the value of a coin and its grade

but sorry fluke THE COIN LOOKS CLEANED

Fluke is partly right we can be a little unfriendly on here and you do have to remember everyone has to start somewhere , we all remember that first coin that started us off collecting , there was so much to learn from the beginning

Looks no better than VF to me , also looks cleaned , I doubt if the coin is worth over £20

I like the crown best - totally yummy.

As numismatics is concerned decimal coins will never be scarce or show a great profit , I must admit in the last ten years or so it's got far more interesting with commems being fired out right left and centre. I think this bodes well for the coin collectors in the future as really the age of the average collector these days is prob around 55 years old and the hobby will die without new blood. I suppose things like the publicity around the undated 20p and kew gardens 50p can do little long term harm and more good than anything really. Sixties and seventies crowns did little for the hobby in the long term , in fact putting many people off putting money into coins for life (remember the bags of Churchill crowns marketed as an investment)

I think many American coins are really lovely V nickles, wheat cents, buffalo nickles, and those huge silver dollars which are really quite cheap due to plenty being around,the gold esp. the early stuff is very attractive and make you think of the wild west. I must admit the prices of rarities are around 100 times more than a similar English french or German coins Overall though I am happy to collect UK coins.

I would have a guess at around a hundred - but it could be far less. More and more will come to light in coming years . I suspect this variety might be worth around £300 in a few years time as more and more finds are made, and the novelty fades away There again i thought that undated 20p coins would be worth £5 now and they still fetch £30 so I could easy be wrong - it's not an exact science

I don't think Scott specializes in coins costing over £10 if you know what I mean

my grandads were inscribed on the edge , or just the silver one was he was an ord tommy in the royal marines - not sure if he had to pay extra for that. By the way ist WW medals were superbly struck though it is rare to see one these days that has not been well cleaned. English WWW1 medals are often called Pip squeak and Wilfred , after a popular cartoon in a national newspaper I think

Yep like medals and the like. There were so many medals given out in the first world war that for the first time they were not awarded at ceremonies but posted out in the post at the time - this did not go down well with the ordinary privates (who to be fair put their lives at risk every day , just like the rest). Many even threw them in the bin in disgust.

Doubt very much she is married she sounds like a sexually repressed spinster to me

This whole sorry tale leads me to the conclusion that the whole company is inept and should not exist with it's attitude to customers . BREATHTAKINGLY USELESS

"You must pay final value fees " is wrong as well you can always ignore them and get banned from using ebay again , well in that name anyway

Well yes, the designer of these coins thought more about the quality of the design than the practicalities of making the darn things , best left to other folks in the know they thought, i'm sure of that

Ok I'm sick of the nipple clamps and the stretching in the cellar , Now i give in, "Ok You can go to that bloody coin fair at Birmingham this coming weekend"

Ghosting is quite common on Edward Penny's less in halfpennies and almost none existent in farthings

MMMMMMMmmmm lovely coin fantastic rev shame about the light marks on the obverse Very desirable

Many happy returns may the coins in your cabinet equal the years of your life

Bet you felt ripped off lol

These are also repro in china and sold to tourists as cheap souvenirs , Millions are spread over the whole world now , so please don't get excited it might be genuine it prob isn't