Paddy
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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!
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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!
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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!
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Yes - the Spink books site seems to be broken. I have no idea whether this is permanent or just a glitch.
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Surely those are two pictures of the same coin? The spots all match exactly, only the colour is different?
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@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.
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I didn't know the Kama Sutra included a position "bent as a love token". Has anyone tried it?
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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!
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A very merry Bah Humbug to you all!
Let's hope the New Year brings a more peaceful and prosperous future for us all.
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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.
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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? 🙂
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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https://www.predecimal.com/forum/topic/13698-useful-tips-on-windows-for-coin-people/
This is the link to the suggestion
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9 minutes ago, secret santa said:
As Peckris says, acknowledge the source out of politeness. I'm sure that most sites realise that their images can and will be downloaded.
And for those that can't, I screenshot the webpage, paste it into a Word document and then save the image as a jpeg file where it can be cropped with something like Adobe Photoshop.
You can also do a selective screenshot of just the image. See the tip I posted under useful tips in the technical section on here.
Saves a lot of faffing around.
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First cartoon to make me laugh out loud in a while:
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I think I'd like to wait until I have my coins safely in my hands before I insult them directly.
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Auction One gets worse and worse! Automated emails from them last night - If I do not collect by Friday they will charge £5 per coin per day storage fees! Unbelievable.
My point about the difference in buyers commission was more about the expectation that with such high commission levels they should be geared up for great customer service. The reverse seems to be true.
If anyone is desperate to find out which auction house I am talking about, please PM me.
PS: Have now spoken to them and they assure me they will not be making the above charges. If so, why have their computer send out such annoying emails?
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"I wish I could gnash my teeth at you..."
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1 hour ago, TomGoodheart said:
Was the first a large auction house? I'm bemused by the need to register with auctionet afterwards. How difficult is it to have someone take card payments over the phone, particularly as you presumably were able to bid without doing so? Sounds overly complicated!
Yes, the first auction house was quite a large one - long established and holding posh sales roughly monthly as well as clearance sales fortnightly. Until fairly recently they were family owned but I believe they have been bought out and this maybe why auctionet has entered the scene. They only do coin auctions once a year - I hope they have got themselves sorted out before the next one.
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Lots of great comments about The Coinery - I have sent them a link to this topic for their information.
No comment on the appalling experience with Auction One - do I take it that this form of poor customer service and over-charging is taken as normal?
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5 minutes ago, Coinery said:
Interestingly the name Richard also popped up when I was subscribing?
The auctioneer introduced himself as Richard something, but I cannot remember what surname he gave. I just assumed both Richard and Guy are involved in the operation.
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New Edition Freeman Bronze Coinage
in Coin Publications Forum
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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).