Gary1000

I do wonder if at the end of an auction someone goesin with a better offer or tips the seller off that it's a rare variety so it never gets posted.

I've had this a couple of times and it usually happens when I've got something far too cheap. The seller will wait until you ask then immediatly give a refund.

And from me too.

Can you get a Springer to sit still for long enough on a scanner

Up until a year ago I would every evening do a 24 hour new listings search of British coins. Once the numbers got up to the level where they exceeded the maximum search number (10,000) I could no longer search the whole previous 24 hours, so I gave up.

I'm of the opinion that the ridge often gets filled which is lest than helpfull in determining the type.

I'm not sure about if they are fakes but he has definitly used completed auction photo's. That 1903 HC sold a few weeks back for £1500ish

I would think one give away is that an off-metal strike is unlikely to have seen any circulation as it would have been hooked out as a curiousity almost immediatly.

Are they not different companies? Baldwins are part of the Stanley Gibbons Empire, which includes SG, Noble, Baldwins, Dreweatts, Bloomsbury, etc. Spink are just Spink. Albeit international. What I don't understand is that with all their money they seem to have trusted their IT to an amateur ... Edit: And just for amusement I tried a simple search just now. After a minute of waiting it told me to log in. So I attempted ... Nothing. I disabled Active X filtering ... Still nothing. I put in my details, clicked "Login" and .. FA Been like that.. what, two years now? I did email a few times complaining but can't be arsed now. Pointless them having a website as far as I can see. . My mistake, I knew it began with S.

. Are they not leaving it too their Baldwins arm to look after that sort of thing

But his 1933 penny barely looks like a penny let alone a good copy. That pattern is something else.

Yes I think I'll order myself one from China as a gap filler.

My dream coin would be the rocking horse crown in gold. It's the one in my 20th centry run of crowns that is just not going to happen.

As there is only one known and it's British Museum your chances of finding one are pretty slim.

It needs to look like this one.

They must still have bags full of the last one, didn't they learn a lesson.

I have all of mine delivered to work, much safer.

Not certain, but it looks to have been plugged at 8pm on the reverse, which would favour its authenticity.. certainly something going on there. the R on the other side is a bit of an odd shape. If it's plugged they've done a good job, I wonder if it has just been flattened at that point.

I had a disgruntled buyer who couldn't understand why his bid had jumped so much when he bid above the reserve I'd set. He was going to complain to ebay about it.

If a coin has been minted with a polish die one side and a currecy die the other surely it's a mull as it would be an unintentional die pairing.

I've not heard of that one, why is it a mule?

Davies quote two reverse varieties for the 1935 crown but I've only ever seen the one type.

The MPs will have completely forgotten about it all by the end of next week. As they say "seven days is a long time in politics". Looking at that spending per head it's the East and South East, both adjacent to London, who are the hard done by. On the few occasions I've visted the Up North everything looks a lot better than where I live, the food, housing, transport, petrol and beer are all cheaper. I guess we don't moan enough about how we get such a hard time. As they say it's the squeaky hinge that get the oil.

Agreed, but they are ramming it don't own throats and treating it as a great big circus. I'll be glad when it's all over and we can get back to the Pistorius trial. You're a bit late aren't you? Verdict already handed down... The verdict maybe but still awaiting his conviction

Agreed, but they are ramming it don't own throats and treating it as a great big circus. I'll be glad when it's all over and we can get back to the Pistorius trial.