Gary1000

On balance when in hand I decided that the coin was a Obv2, well closer to a 2 than a 2a.

I'm off as well, a week in North Wales. I have my oversized wellies for harassing the sheep , then a week in North Devon. Not sure what precautions I will need for there.

The penny is back on ebay so not all is lost. Thanks, but it wasn't for my benefit - I don't want one. I suppose the point I was really trying to make was that it would appear that you don't get the penny in the picture.

The penny is back on ebay so not all is lost.

Oh, it all helps at the moment, believe me! Just managed to get a tenant into the Gillingham house as of yesterday. It was only empty for 15 months. I know what you mean, trade is veeerrrryyyyy slllllooooowwwwww at the moment. I'm even thinking about selling the kids for medical experimentation At least the Royal Mail is working, the three Maundy boxes arrived today, thanks John. Oh and thanks for sorting out the postage. As it was you I didn't worry about haggling as I assumed it would get sorted.

I am. I'm loaded. I've got nearly £60. I've got more monney than sense, I'm up to about 86p now.

I had to may do with a 944, the 911 was too much dosh for me....and they were so ugly.

I'd much rather own a well done altered date than a repro. The altered date probably had a lot more thought and skill gone into it than the repro. The fake 1905 Half Crowns have fetches a couple of hundred pounds on the rare occassion one does come up for auction.

lol must have been in cahoots with someone I reckon, doubt that this was a genuine sale! What are you doing watching such c**p anyways?! I believe it was a Gouby X whoever bought it well spotted! Nice bargain too!! I had a close look at that one and decided that it wasn't a Gouby X

Easily removed if you have a soldering iron. Probably ex mount. A soldering iron is more likey to make an even bigger mess. If it solder it will have alloyed with the silver.

Although I don't import coins very often it's only been since last year that they have been charging 20%, previous to that I had only been charged 5%. I assumed they had a new batch of monkeys arrive. I don't know what if any linkup there is between Parcelforce and customs but the fee is on a sliding scale so the greater the VAT/Duty the bigger the fee.

We were copying across all the data on our working drive overnight to a new drive. This pushed the old drive over the edge so we now have nothing and I've nothing to do so here's some light entertainment. A traveling salesman visits a small town in the Midwest and sees a circus banner reading: "Don't Miss The Amazing Scotsman." Curious, he buys a ticket. The tent goes dark. Suddenly, trumpets blare and all eyes turn to the center ring. There, spot lit in the center ring is a table with three walnuts on it. Standing next to it is an old Scotsman. Suddenly the old man lifts his kilt, whips out a huge penis and smashes all three walnuts with three mighty swings! The crowd erupts in applause as the elderly Scot is carried off on the shoulders of the crowd. Ten years later the salesman visits the same little town and he sees a faded sign for the same circus and the same: "Don't Miss the Amazing Scotsman." He can't believe the old guy is still alive much less still doing his act! So he buys a ticket. Again, the center ring is illuminated. This time, instead of walnuts, three coconuts are placed on the table. The Scotsman stands before them, then suddenly lifts his kilt and smashes the coconuts with three swings of his amazing member. The crowd goes wild! Flabbergasted, the salesman requests a meeting with him after the show. "You're incredible," he tells the Scotsman. "But I have to know something. You're older now, why switch from walnuts to coconuts?" Well, says the Scot: "Me eyes are nae whit they used to be."

There's very few 1970s cars that DOESN'T apply to! Datsuns and Italian cars arguably worse than even British. My 2nd car, in 1981, was a 70s Alfasud. The Alfa's and Lancia's of the time were total rust buckets. My 3rd car was an old 1968 Porsche 911, very solid and well rust-proofed. No room in the back, but I didn't have kids then! I currently have an Italian car, but that's mainly aluminium bodied I had a 944, so back seats of a sort. We've got a Smart now so no room for the 18 year old in the back of that either. Mind you it's hard enough to get him to sit in the front as well.

Thats a great business strategy by London Coins I must say...."We have a lot of business on the go so lets leave the phone off the hook so that we dont get any more..."....God forbid that any new clients get through to us whilst we're busy doing admin... You could always get them slabbed by CGS and sell them that way! I noticed Jill lockett selling a slabbed Halfpenny recently on ebay and it went for less than the slabbing cost.

Pray tell, I have a fake 1905 half crown and wish I knew what points it out as a fake. From what I gleaned on this very forum, there's a small break in the R of EDWARDVS that is the prime giveaway on many of them. But there may be other flaws on those from other sources? Are you certain that this only appears on fakes? I have seen more 1905 halfcrowns with the defect on the R of EDWARDVS, than without. The EF example in the Andrew Scothern collection (being auctioned by DNW later this month) also has the defect. The only giveaway of fakes that I'm aware of is the wonky I of QVI on the reverse. As I say, I only heard about this on this forum, and only in connection with fakes. There may well be genuine examples with the same defect, but I hadn't heard of them here! I pointed out on here some time ago the broken R but it was pooh poohed at the time. My fake is 0.900 silver so not quite sterling. It's got the wonky I. Thanks, Gary! Where did you get the .900 analysis from? Was it cheap? I bought it as such from London Coins

I just sold a 1953 proof set through Baldwins, they seemed very professional.

Pray tell, I have a fake 1905 half crown and wish I knew what points it out as a fake.

They do it to try and make sure that their listing appears first in the list because the default sort criterion is price. Are you sure? If I don't set anything, the default they select is "Soonest ending" Yes. If I type eg "1965 sixpence" into the "Search..." field at the top of the "My eBay" page - it returns a list of items sorted by "Price:highest first" How odd, I always get 'Best Match'! Just tried the same in different browsers: in Firefox I get Best Match; in Chrome I get Price:highest first. Weird. I always assumed it was "Best match". I use firefox.

Bought on ebay 29/03/13 for £761 and sold less than a month later for close to £500 profit, not a bad couple of days work I suppose!!!! I see the serious bidders dropped out at £191. I guess it will be on again nextweek.

Bought on ebay 29/03/13 for £761 and sold less than a month later for close to £500 profit, not a bad couple of days work I suppose!!!! I see the serious bidders dropped out at £191. I guess it will be on again nextweek.

I am similarly aflicted but have not tried that combination for many years. I had noticed that even a relatively small amount of booze makes me feel tom dick, I put it down the the Metaformin.

So do you have all three in currecy as well? Yes, with multiple examples of most for sale in UNC. The 2 commoner proofs are already there as well of course. Yes I realised that it was a bumb question just after I hit the post button. I picked up my unlisted proof as a single 4-5 years ago from a seller in Greece of all places.

So do you have all three in currecy as well?

Some companies offer 75% Spinks so I guesss it comes down to you to prove the grade of the lost coins. I think I need to think seriously about photographing my collection. I think the company I'm with offer 100% Spinks. If they use Spinks as their benchmark where does CGS come into it.

Yes that is a big problem. If the micro variety is rare enough so that its value goes above the threshold where you have to give an individual valuation its no longer a problem. We need Spinks to take more notice of micro varieties otherwise we're screwed.