Paddy

In case anyone is interested, I am selling off my collection of British Trade dollars - most dates between 1899 and 1934. They are at The Coinery auction finishing Sunday 4th Feb. The Coinery are very reasonable on their commission, charge sensible low rates for postage and dispatch quickly and efficiently, so if you have not bid with them before, be reassured. Their listings are on Easylive.

I've had no problems. No idea what that code means.

It has 139 teeth. (My eyes are crossed from counting!) This makes it Obverse 6, the more common one I think. The scarce one he hopes it is is obverse 2, which has 143 teeth.

I decided to splash out on a few coins last week and ended winning lots at two different auction houses: Auction One on Thursday (I will not reveal the name for fear of being accused of libel): I won two lots totalling £265 before commission, Commission 30% including VAT Confirmation of lots won received same day but with requirement to create account at auctionet, so I did that. Links to invoices received next day (Friday) - two separate invoices. Logged into auctionet to request postage. Could only be done separately for each lot. Total £39 for two tiny coins. Spoke to auction house - had to email auctionet to get the invoices combined, so did that. Received reply Monday - complicated explanation as to how to request combined invoice through the auctionet website. For this they would give me a "generous" discount of 30% on the postage, bringing it down to £27.30. Oh, and they would post within the next 1 to 3 weeks. At this point I cancelled shipping requests and paid the total for the coins and commission. That had to be done as two separate transactions on my card and required me to log out of auctionet between transactions before the second transaction would process. I have now arranged a friend to pick up the coins in the next few weeks and I will get them when we next meet up. Auction two on Saturday (The Coinery - happy to reveal their name as service was impeccable): I won 5 lots totalling £585 before commission, Commission 19.2% including VAT Invoice for all lots combined, including postage, received a couple of hours after the auction finished. Postage £13.15 plus VAT, Paid that evening by bank transfer. Confirmation of receipt of payment and postage received first thing Monday morning. Coins received by Special delivery, all correct, Tuesday Lunchtime. Needless to say, Auction house One is now off my favoured list! The Coinery I will happily use again and recommend to anyone.

I had a look at Great Collections - I had missed that they are US based, so postage costs are likely to be an issue. Also, they seem to deal only certified and encapsulated stock, which is not my bucket at all! Thanks for the tip though.

Just to clarify, the Lawrences I referred to is nothing to do with David Lawrence as far as I know. 12.5% is remarkably good - I must look them out. B Frank & Son (on Easylive) are also very reasonable, though they have had little of interest to me in the last few sales. I can cope with around 20% as long as the service is good. I object to paying 30% or more, particularly as the service at that level is usually no better and often much worse! As a tip to the wise, total buyers commission through Easylive usually works out a % or two less than through Saleroom.

Sorry if this is old news to most of you, but I only learnt about it today from a friend, who is a legitimate Ebay trader. Apparently the Ebay sellers' forums are all agog with this. Ebay, Amazon, Etsy and all online selling platforms operating in the UK are now required to provide details to the HMRC of the registered user's address, bank details and trading summaries. The HMRC will use this to send tax demands to anyone who has made more than £1000 profit in any given year and has not already registered to pay tax on this profit. They are expected to go back over the last 5 years or more. The expectation is that many well known sellers will be hit with huge bills and face criminal proceedings if they do not pay. Some are already running for the hills!

Good for you @SilverAge3 All we need now is a few dozen more like you! There are still a few good regulars here, some with a huge depth of knowledge, but many have faded away.

All the info I have is in the thread in the Wanted section of this forum. I can't seem to post a link to it, but if you go into Wanted it is on the first page - Bronze Coinage (2016).

Yes - others have commented on the same problem. I guess the fairly limited print run sold out quickly to people who really wanted a copy! It may also be relevant that the pages came loose fairly easily from the spine on this issue. Certainly mine has, and I think I saw other similar comments. As a result, any copies that fall into the hands of book dealers would probably not be listed as they are damaged. Pulped sadly!

Yes, I keep a tangible copy of everything important. I even have all my favourite music on CD. If, or probably when, the internet goes up in flames for whatever reason, all those people who rely on cloud storage are going to be lost, although that will probably be the least of their worries!

Fairly easy to get a CD drive stand alone that plugs into the computer via USB. I picked one up at a charity shop for £2!

Yes - the Spink books site seems to be broken. I have no idea whether this is permanent or just a glitch.

Surely those are two pictures of the same coin? The spots all match exactly, only the colour is different?

@SilverAge3 - tips on uploading pictures: In each post the limit is 0.49MB as shown, so first of all shrink each image down to that size. The main point is that if you try to immediately post a second time in the same thread, it will tell you can't because you have reached the limit, BUT if you come out of the thread and then back in, it will then let you load another image.

I didn't know the Kama Sutra included a position "bent as a love token". Has anyone tried it?

A Happy, Peaceful and Prosperous New Year to you all! A friend asked if I was having a "knees up" last night to celebrate the New Year. The only knees up I had was when I climbed into bed around 10pm!

A very merry Bah Humbug to you all! Let's hope the New Year brings a more peaceful and prosperous future for us all.

Yes, I have just had a similar message from Tim. I have replied thanking him for taking the comments in good heart and reacting accordingly.

Not really my specialist area, but I will contribute. Yes, appears to match #455 in the list of evasion farthings. I have this list in the back of the Withers Token Book 2010. There is no picture - just a description. In that it shows no date and there is no back up to indicate where this type was produced. There is also no value suggested, which generally indicates it is fairly scarce. In your pictures I think I can see the ghost of a date - 1798 or similar? A sharper close up might help. Value, as always with these, is a guess. Best market would be in the US where these evasions are closely linked to the earliest US coinage. It could make just £10, or £80 depending on who saw it and needed it for their collection. By the way, your Flickr links give access to all you photos on that site - I hope that was what you intended? 🙂

As a separate comment, I bought at Fieldings auction yesterday, and their service was impeccable. Combined invoice received with 1 hour of the end of the auction. I requested postage online and this was quoted within minutes - £15 plus VAT for lots totalling around £500, which is reasonable. I paid before 5pm yesterday and the coins arrived by Special Delivery today around 14.30. Spot on!

As the coins are now safely in the hands of a trusted friend, I will reveal all. Firstly, an amelioration of my previous criticism: the staff at Lawrences are extremely helpful and have resolved the confusions caused by their systems cheerfully and without quibble. So the criticism goes to their admin system - AUCTIONET - and whoever in management decided this was a good approach to customer service, and made this an obligatory default for payment. Specifically: It insists on sending out separate invoices for each lot sold, The process for requesting combined invoices is complex and requires manual intervention by AUCTIONET, not the auction house, The postage costs are set very high, and by default are charged separately for each lot, with minimal discount for combined postage when achieved, The payment process is buggy - it cannot cope with more than payment per session, so you have to log out and back in for each transaction, By default it starts sending out abrupt "storage charge" emails after only 1 week and with no consideration as to the size of the lots. So my advice would be: if you find out your auction house is using AUCTIONET, be prepared for frustration.

Definitely not the mule and I have messaged him to that effect. If he can't see that the border on the reverse is toothed, not beaded, he can check on the rocks to the left of the lighthouse. On the beaded reverse, there are 3 distinct rocks, whereas on the toothed there is a single large rock.

Going back through my penny collection I came across this one identified as 1* and B - therefore F8B. I can't remember how or when I came to that conclusion as I am not usually too attentive to varieties, and it may have been discussed on this forum before. Is that correct? If it is, I would have thought it would be imaged on rarestpennies, but I can't see it there. If it is wanted there, please feel free to add it.

I have it in the 2016 paperback edition of Freeman, published by the great ROTOGRAPHIC - page 29, 1* and B. Unfortunately mine is 1** and B, which makes it F763 - deep in the appendices.