Gary1000

After nuking the french quarter.

Chris, are you comming anywhere near Stansted as I've got a box on coins you may be interested in.

Apparently the RM is worried about the number of fakes in circulation. I don't see how this makes any difference, if the royal mint can make them so can anybody else. There's nothing magic about the presses they use.

An opportunity to blow off some old machinery to save some money. I guess the 2017 £ has about the same buying power as the 1967 3d as well.

I can't imagine there will be much US interest until they are slabbed.

I like that, "change England for the better changing fro a rural wool based economy to one driven by inventors and chancers." and now the invertors have gone we are left with just the chances.

Thanks, let me know as obviously I would expect to pay all costs. I just don't want to go to the trouble of a membership just for one coin. I'm also looking to sell in the states if all goes well. The coin was originally a top pop PCGS PL67.

Is that a serious offer. I've been looking to get my 1937 proof crown reslabbed as a one off. It originally came out of a PCGS slab but I guess an NGC slab would do the trick.

Produced for collectors? Then how do you account for the 60/59 overdate? My view is that the 1860 issues were done very briefly to meet demand in the event of the bronze conversion running into a few delays. Though that only makes sense completely if the 1859 dies had been used up due to the anticipated changeover. Wouldn't they have just knocked out a few more 59s even if it was just into 1860? To me changing dies would occur at the end of a run ie 60/61 not at the beginning of a run. So the 59 dies would be use in 60/61 to finish a run and save going to the 61 dies.

Sorry, ever the contrarian, but I don't necessarily. I usually put them date up, but even that relies on the customer having binocular vision - very unlikely. Many are as blind as a bat! Ah, but you are a collector, you realise the the date is important. Many of the dealers at the Midland's show head up with the coin in a flip and the label underneath. When there's a scrum at the table I often can't be bothered to ask.

Slightly off topic but why do dealer at shows display their coins observe up, most annoying.

I didn't have any of this when I received an empty envelope. Mind you there was an embossed coin beside the tear in the envelope. After much abuse from the seller ebay just returned my money.

Silver is silver, wouldn't they have just used French coin.

You could just paste it directly into the eBay home page, you don't have to sign in.It's a real pain for iPhone uses, as eBay will not let you take a link! It's possible to add links for just about every other webpage you come across, just not the eBay pages for some reason! Really sorry about that, Peck, it does rely on others kindly adding the link, which I myself always do for others if I'm on a PC and have viewed the eBay item in question! It's a nightmare, don't be cross with us poor smartphone users! I still want to join in! Then I'd have to have the steps : 3. type 'eBay.co.uk' into Google 4. click the eBay page in the list of Google links on page 1 You see, my bookmark, unsurprisingly, takes me to MY eBay where I have to sign in - if I didn't want to go to my eBay, I'd have to search for eBay in Google. Makes sense, right? Thanks Paulus. I don't a have a permanent tab open for eBay (it would just add to Safari's bloat, along with iPlayer, TV Guide, two other forums, Facebook - I try to keep the number of open tabs to the minimum possible, but I still have to quit Safari and relaunch sometimes when my RAM is nearly all used up.) I rarely go to eBay except for what you guys post in this forum, or the once-in-a-blue-moon that I buy some household item. Just add ebay as a favourite then launch and paste the id number into the search at the top. Simples.

By the look of the 20p's he's selling he is being honest about not knowing anything about coins.

The photos work for me if I right click and choose the option to open in another window. I worked that out in the end, my mistake was trying to double click it.

Where to sell it is up for discussion. I'm hoping it's a £200 but £20-30 on ebay definitly would be a loss.

Nothing wrong with a bit of wishful thinking. Surely you mean wistful thinking.

Same here, David. I found an F175 amongst thousands of circulation coins but never put it in my collection or on the website, being sure an EF/UNC example would appear shortly. That was several years ago and, although I don't have time to check every 1913 listed on eBay, I've never seen a decent one since! I've come to the conclusion that they're really quite rare.David Groom lists the four types in his book but doesn't discuss relative rarities. I wonder if he has a view on this? Personnally I think the F175 is harder to find in any grade than the F176. I picked up a nice F175 in the summer and was thinking of getting my worn one slabbed as there are currently none on CGS. What put me off is that the slabbing would likely cost more than the coin is worth. Here's my F175

London Coins used to offer the option of slabbing coins assigned to their auctions for £10 each. Not certain if they still give this special rate to sellers. I was not aware of this. THe coin was originally lot 153 in the Crocker Collection auction. Although I can still see the jpg I can't seem to open it. Perhaps Neil can help us. Here is a link http://www.colincooke.com/coinpages/the_crocker_collection_of_pennies.html

I agree, if a price guide author doesn't even follow it's own price guide when they sell coins the price guide is about as useful as a chocolate teapot. I guess this is a question for Chris, do you take any notice of your price guide when to cost the coins you sell.

The problem I have is when someone like Spinks produce a guide but take absolutly no notice of it when selling coins. This makes me feel very synical, does the Spinks book mean anything at all or is it just a revenue stream, well it is yes but do they really put any effort into it if they are not prepared to stand by it.

i don't know any Shetlanders, but my Orcadian friends feel far more Scandinavian than Scottish It's my impression that the same can be said about the Shetlanders. I believe Shetland, Orkney and the Western Isles are talking about home rule should Scotland split from the UK. They obviously know which side their bread is buttered.

This matt proof sold last year for £480 + juice. It is the variety with the bright edge and was talked about on the forum at the time. (The auction photo was poor with a lot of reflection and so there was little interest here then). Someone slabbed it after purchase. Personally, I am not too excited because of the contact marks and hairline that Paulus highlighted. I think the bright edge was just a red herring. At the time I looked at mine and the edge is brightish, definitely much brighter than the currency piece. Also the top surfaces of the lettering are matt. A good way to tell the two coins apart if you are not sure is to look at the edge.

I don't recall when we started that but they were/are copper over steel. If you left one in a puddle for a length of time it would blow the copper cladding. Of cause some enterprising people would remove the cladding and try and sell them on ebay as a mistrike.