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the PF62 is just a lower res image, if you look at it closely its got a bit of damage on the face as well as being significantly off centre struck for a proof.(this alone on a proof i feel is enough to downgrade) Also for once i feel the heritage image is sub par, the Japanese one is a bit better exposure and colour has been manipulated a bit

and the threepence you mentioned in a previous thread is up too, gonna go for that one and be competition for me?

interesting to see DNW still sell CGS coins

removed the link, wasn't sure if i should have left it in. RM are horrible at sending spam though

" Want to get your paws on our brand new Paddington coin? The wait is almost over! Our official Paddington coins will be going on sale Monday 18 June. Prices start from £10. To register your interest, visit: website" from facebook, not advertising it just passing on knowledge, these will be out later next week rather than later this year

Never seen this before, pretty weird and interesting :) 1939 Halfcrown with GV REV

lovely sixpence, i was watching the recent CNG one with great interest , its the added history that aluminium was only fairly recently made a fairly common metal that is interesting. Any idea if this is the first example of an aluminium coin? recon if a country has one it would be France. I find graded coins mostly keep a consistent pricing and is mostly what i use as my "price guide"

the offender I still have my "job lot" of these, 40 in total all with the same grade(not all slabbed just the 1)

I sold a CGS 88 1935 for £150 a couple years ago, by far a more common date( this was when CGS still had a bit of reputation mind you)

one for today from my new favourite seller

I use SHIPITO, ship my items to a virtually free mailbox in the USA(they charge $2 per item processed but no standing charge) and average shipping costs are $7 or so. This is normally cheaper as most USA sellers offer free postage to the USA so international postage costs $9. This mailbox allows you to specify what to put on the customs form and i have never been charged the wrong amount(i.e not 5%) over the last few years send 22 items and all have arrived(even a couple risky £1000 purchases not insured and not tracked came ok) I can swear by them, have never been upset with what they provide I have included affiliate link i'm sure you wont mind

or £42 :)

the things you see sell on ebay surely the essay in the description is enough to put someone off buying it

i always wonder what happened to those 2 as to why they were sold out before this offer came out, why were they so popular

my one and only time I "won the luck lottery". on the Royal Mint website+facebook page they were doing a stock clearance of 27/29 of the full set of these(packaged) and sold them at face value. my only mistake was they limited 3 of each type to each household and i only purchased 2 for some reason. so suppose i 66 1/3% won the luck lottery? For those that don't know the 2 that were missing from this offer(Simply weren't offered for sale) were the basketball and triathlon, i would like to attribute their inflated prices to this deal. Last time i see that with RM as nowdays they milk every penny they can get from tat

£5000 seems (relatively) cheap to me considering the 2x? gold GV sixpence sold in the last few years for over 20k

good news is the 3 pence might be affordable, a proof 4 pence example sold 2016 for a measly £5400

1927 PF62 1/2 Crown sold recently for £53000 link

I know there was a disparity of silver bullion price($0.45-$0.60 per ounce) to face value with Morgan dollars($1) in the late 20th century, some 2 million+ fakes were estimated to be made and were only picked up on in 2005 or so through thorough die pairing analysis. Regarding precious metal content these coins showed an actual higher silver content than their authentic comrades(up to 96% where there should only have been 90%) but looking at the difference in bullion vs face value these guys were still doubling their money. Possibly the same case could be said for sovereigns and their contemporary face value vs £/$ market per ounce?

get your bids in fast guys from your favourite(private listing so cant see shill bids)seller lukaz

still time to bid guys and gals

I don't understand why people submit coins to LCA. The amount of bidding wars i get into against other live internet bidders is enough to tell me that them not offering it reduces the end price. Combine this with their lack of replying to emails and you have a lose lose. live bidding would be an investment that i feel would be recouped after 1 auction with the increase in prices

also could be an imperfect mixing technique where there are "pockets" of higher CuNi content rather than perfect mix all over

ITEM for someone that sells a lot of rare roman coins(check sold and current listings) this guy doesn't seem to have a clue /s. (hint is most are fake and he hides behind "unresearched" which any time someone mentions it, 99% chance it is fake) Most worrying thing is his negative feedback doesn't reflect how many fakes he peddles and there must be hundreds of people out there with worthless junk

what y'all think of this one