rpeddie

Hi everyone After being locked out of LCGS verification I was wondering if someone here is still a member from the forum and would be able to get a few of the verification pictures so I can check some coins? The UIN's are as follows: 33418 34809 34808 Either sent through here or an email (removed) I would greatly appreciate that. Cheers RP

i use a forwarding address in the usa for purchasing coins from across there called shipito. they charge a flat $2 for per package, i usually get items free delivered(ebay) to my address over there and send untracked from myself(usa) to myself(uk) for cheaper than they offer as i don't need signed delivery. they also offer multiple postage options(fedex dhl the likes) but again i am with coinery with the insurance, cannot get a reasonable rate but so far i am 23/23 for packages received from my forwarding address I don't have to worry about being charged the wrong tax as i just use the 5% vat code and never a mix up.

straight $10 for pcgs and $5/15 from ngc, otherwise you get the trash pictures taken with a nokia 3310

have to pay extra to have half decent pics of pcgs/ngc pics that would show the hairlines

anyone planning on viewing any LCA lots in person and is willing to do me a massive and get alternative pictures of a couple lots while you are there? (if it is possible mind you) I will forever be in your debt LCA seem reluctant to reply to any communication

well these are the pre-conserving, nice and massive to try spot where my $100 went.

i just recently graded a coin with NGC and had to pay a stupid amount to have it conserved(aka have some substance removed from it). Got an email saying they will not give you a grade unless you go through with the conservation but the conservation costs 5% of fair market value. I if you decide not to go through with it you lose your initial grading fee already paid and it doesn't get slabbed. Possibly the same case as what atlas did here? Will post before and after pictures when I get it back for you guys to judge if it was worth the extra $100 or not

Im in for a free twentier off

Just got the 1 myself

Nice this the first of many?

www.cromwellcoins.com http://www.sunandanchor.com/ Both my go to

thanks ill have a look into endica

Me again Looking to post some valuable coins over to Germany and surprisingly got stuck with postage options. For insured up to £2000 the best I seem to be able to find is £90 postage, which seems a bit excessive? What postage options are there for this sort of thing or is that the right sort of price for what I happen to be looking for? I was kiNd of expecting it to be about £20-30 but nowhere near 100 Appreciate the help in any form

hoping they are all above a cgs75-pcgs/ngc 63 appreciate the help and opinions anyone has as always

Hi again Been thinking about sending 3 coins away to get graded but wanted to check with you first to see if maybe im just seeing things and they are not as good as i think they are. the 3 are below will try get some better pictures if needed these are just the ones that i had on hand at the moment to get the ball rolling. (i know how you guys feel about grading in general but im a bit stuck in my ways now )

managed to stumble on these last weekend looks like the crown was maybe purchased in the 80's? quite a fortunate stumble (Dublin 1000 years of irish coinage museum)

i think i struggle from the same thing you are struggling with, my problem is i cant seem to get gold coins to show their actual colour in pictures they always seem to come out more silver/white than they actually are, maybe a lighting issue, where instead of too little light maybe too much light? DNW pic Spink Pic my pic All pics not too great but its alot more 22ct goldy looking in reality

this is my MS65 if it helps at all? I purchased for £175 but that's beside probably the slab speaking

my small ebay peeve is people that list something as "hammered coins" only for me to open it up and there is only 1 there and those 4 seconds are forever lost to my life

would need to click on the last image to enlarge it in case it causes confusion as an addition this image is what gave me the idea

Still a way to go with this but been working with a '35 crown using putty/power rangers play doh would have worked better if i would have been able to get the whole circumference in one picture rather than having to crop 3 together. as i said though work in progress

thanks for that was a good read What was the reason again for the addition of copper plug to the coins (same with the farthings of the time)? Was this to try get people to associate a newly made tin coin(worth less than copper at the time i would assume?) as having some intrinsic value?

it appears that none have sold for 10-20 years at least (gold ones), there anywhere at all (quite a few of the reference books i am yet to aquire still) as to how many were struck? checked ESC but doesn't look like it falls into that books catagory(for the silver proofs anyway)

yea no problem was a shot in the dark anyway. Got much further than i expected saw the silver one a while back and browsing through the books and was curious

thanks for that rob ill keep looking in SCBC there is a gold 'extremely rare': halfcrown 1690 april, gold small size HC 1690, 4 different shillings and 3 sixpence in gold. also continuing there are apparently a 'finer' gun money crown done in gold too.