Gary1000

Chris or anyone, I seem to have put this in the wrong section. Feel free to move it.

I've put a few bits on ebay, probably nothing for the hardened collector but you never know. http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/gazza-d/m.html?item=401024330609&ssPageName=STRK%3AMESELX%3AIT&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2562

It sounds as though it's been minted without the collar. May have a small value if you can find someone interested in such things.

Whaaaat... Do you have a comparison pic? I've not heard of the wide 2 1902 before Ok to save someone stating the odvious, yes the picture is of the 1/2 penny but it shows the difference between the normal and wide 2 penny. The 2 is over a space on the wide 2. I'm at work and only have this picture on file.

Yes nice coin, now all you need to find now is the wide 2 variety

Customs duty should be 0% but there is 5% VAT. If there is any doubt RM makes it 20% VAT

Not been on here much laterly so I only just come across this, Oh shit I'm sorry to hear this.

If you put in an odd value then creep up in £1 increments the next bid increment before before you reach the highest bid will be an odd increment so you can tell what the highest bid is before exceeding it. You can then sit below it and not panic the highest bidder.

The 1960 polished crown was minted exclusively at the 1960 US exhibition using dies specially prepared for the purpose. Comparing the UK minted crowns to the US exhition minted coins should be like comparing chalk and cheese.

Perhaps he also has a few friends watching

The 1906 year is easy to tell as the maundy has a different bust to the common of the two currency 3d. The maundy 3d has a wider gap between the I of IMP to the : The scarcer 3d uses the maundy bust so you are then back to comparing strike.

He's been in Berlin about two weeks now and is settling in well.

Since when has such minor details got between a student and a beer. I was viewing it from your perspective. As far as I am aware, just because they are living away doesn't mean to say you aren't coughing up for their pleasures. Having personally dropped in on a friend in Singapore for a day's liquid refreshment, I appreciate that Munich is next door to Berlin. Actually its turned out quite cheap so far. My son saves the £9000 tuition fee this year and gets something like 2500 euros from the EU plus his student loan looks like we pay very little this year.

Since when has such minor details got between a student and a beer.

My son has just started a year at TU in Berlin, I'm sure he will be most happy to find that Oktoberfest is about to kick off. One spot of difficulty he is have is that his Dell laptop has just fried its mother board. It doesn't seem as easy to get such things fix in Berlin as it does in the UK. There doesn't appear to be an equivalent to PC World, or he hasn't found it yet.

I think where restored items fall down it's when they are restored to better than they were when new. Like giving an old tractor a paint job like a modern car, it never came out of the factory looking like that. It's all down to how sympathetic the restoration has been.

The way I look at it, possibly incorrectly, you have currency dies and polished dies along with plain blanks and polished blanks. Polished die and polished blank gives a proof. Polished die and plain blank gives a specimen (1935 specimen crown) Plain die and polished blank give proof like (1951, 1960 crowns) Plain die and plain blank gives currency coinage.

Owning both VIP proofs and out of the box proofs I can honestly say they are like chalk and cheese. You can tell just by picking one up, the reeding feels like it will cut your hand, and the 1937 as an example has different areas of frosting compared to the out the box proof. 1965 was only issued as a VIP proof.

On my PC the banner at the top is covering all of the tabs

My brother was a banker until he retires early a couple of months ago on a 2/3 salery pension. For us mear mortals the days of big pension annuities are long gone.

I must admit to having reservations. I have always mistrusted annuities but at least the money is always going to be there. I suppose once the pension pot has been blown there is alway the state pension to fall back on.

Just a bit of doubling on the one, nothing unusual about that.

If it costs more than a pound to make nobody with bother to forge it.

Looks like a cross between a thrupenny bit and a tanner. Overall I like it.

I have 6. The proof like with the edge lettering either way up. The proof from the proof set with the edge lettering either way up. The VIP proof and an edge error.