Gary1000

I suspect that he means tanner, but with this seller anything is possible. Not ton(n)ed?

There website is there but I can't browse any catagories. Is that the problem you are seeing?

That's just modern crap, the guy's talking out of his bottom. The genuine originals came in a twist of blue wax paper.

if in acid i would have imagined the whole coin to be affected not just a liitle bit as shown. as acid makes a mess of anything Acid will affect all areas equally so the thin areas will go first, but you will retain a surprising amount of definition

its right up there with "from a pet free home" meaning it aint a dog of a coin..... except it is I received a coin from a smoker yesterday. Not a pleasant experience opening the envelope.

Oooh. Much as I need one of those, I couldn't live with that... I suspect it won't look so bad in the hand, maybe a long time before another turns up, or maybe tomorrow.

There was a discussion a few weeks ago about the scarcer of the two 1964 sixpence which I haven't been able to find again. I believe someone was looking for one. Anyway here is one on the bay, a bit knocked about but I'm sure would fill a gap for a while. Davies 2502

Should have got that guy to mend my shilling, would have save a bit of money there.

I totally respect that area of collecting, and can see how it appeals. But for me I just love the historical context of Pre-Pre-decimal coinage. For me it's about 'getting in touch' with a generation whose footprints have quite literally shaped the land we now experience in their absence! All very arty-farty, I know, but exactly where I'm at when it comes to coins! The person that asked me about the £2 was so excited and enthusiastic, that I wanted to mIntain it by introducing them to the concept of this forum for the answering of questions such as this! I know I could have trawled the net, but how impressed was the enquirer to read a response from Paulus in such short time! Viva la coins, and diversity! Decimal has been around over 40 years now What's a generation counted at 30 years. I think we are already there.

I collect pennies but am not aware of anyone really collecting misalignments, other than as an interesting curio. To be honest, I rarely check alignment so whilst certainly not common, it's hard to accurately estimate rarity. Interesting all the same, and a good spot! I think if it was 180 degrees out it would cause more interest. I have a 1948 penny that is 160-170 degrees so nearly there.

Perhaps she would be more at home in our members area

with eBay search in such a pickle it's an excellent time to be shopping! Bargains a-plenty. Not such a good time to be trying to flog stuff though... That makes so much sense! I've noticed a 50% tail-off for 2 weeks now, it's broke a consistent set of selling stats that have held up for nearly 2 years! Ebay topped 80,000 British worldwide last weekend. A wide search is far from easy at those numbers. It can only end in tears with sellers going away.

Correction: I've just run into the character limit that I was assured doesn't exist! It's 300 characters. The other thing that has been annoying me for a while is the change to a 10,000 search limit. Yesterday for instance I started in Coins British at about 5.00pm and only got back to about 9.30pm Friday evening so I missing about 4 hours of new listings. Does that 10000 limit include all ebay items or just coins? As the current total in the coins section is about 60000 British, there surely can't have been 10000 listings in just over 4 hours. Something doesn't add up there. Isn't the 300 character limit overkill as titles are limited to 80(?) letters if I remember right, so you can't use any more in any case? It would be better if the search results offered you the option to remove churchill crowns from a list of crown search results for example. You can exclude them by era unless someone has listed them in the wrong section, but then you can't legislate for all events. That's 10,000 in 20 hours, 9.30pm the previous evening.Every day I check the previous 24 hours, and worldwide it's more like 75,000. That makes an average of 7500 per day so 10,000 is never far off.

Correction: I've just run into the character limit that I was assured doesn't exist! It's 300 characters. The other thing that has been annoying me for a while is the change to a 10,000 search limit. Yesterday for instance I started in Coins British at about 5.00pm and only got back to about 9.30pm Friday evening so I missing about 4 hours of new listings.

$100 including Fedex back to me.

Like the five figures somebody in the US spent on the gold halfpenny I formerly owned. Just because the heavy gouge was repaired and smoothed over, it suddenly became eligible for slabbing as a Proof 64 Cameo by NGC as opposed to XXXX details, scratches/environmental damage or whatever reason they would give for refusing to grade. Or maybe they just turn a blind eye to certain favoured individuals if the repair job is good enough? I'm sure repair work goes on all the time, with the best jobs going undetected and the TPGs indifferent as long as the repair work isn't in your face. I saw a piece of hammered gold once with a ticket where the (barely detectable) adjustment to the ticket indicating the coin was pierced was more obvious than the plugging done to repair the coin. The catalogue description for the date on the ticket was immensely helpful here. Allen Stockton said it's not unusual to get job lots of 50 coins for repair.

The one's around here only seem interested in lead and copper.

The cheapest sausages are known in the business as school sausages. Think about it.

to be honest Peck, my answer would be i wouldnt want a fake or a repaired coin. I can see the attraction of the repair for some.....its just not for me. It's everyone own personal choice I guess. I'm sure seuk would be just as disappointed to find one of his coin wasn't a fake after all. I am quite happy to fill a space with a fake/altered date rather than a modern copy, at least it has taken some thought and possibly a bit of sweat in it production. Also I think repairing which in this case I wouldn't consider conserving, also to have its place and which would to be individually considered in the merits in each case. If one of the great rarities turned up damaged I sure it would be repaired in a heartbeat. This coin is now in my collection where it's going to stay, probably for many years. In total this coin has cost me under £100, it would cost me £500-700 to replace it.

That's a very impressive work, it's quite amazing! I'm not sure whether it's your photography lighting, or great skill on the part of the engraver, but that looks like some great moonlight! Yes, I was thinking of Mongo only the other day! And still no news on Gollum? And by the looks of the reverse that HC hadn't been in circulation for very long

Ah, but is yours slabbed?

Allen had some family issues, a bereavement, then slipped a disc which put him on his back for about 4 months. Time went bye. I believe the work was done within the last couple of weeks.

Certainly a keeper now.