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Nordle11

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  1. I recommend signing up to codecademy.com, it's where I first started out with html5, css, jquery etc. Excellent tool and you will learn a lot even from the free stuff. 

    Depending where you store the info, you might need a little MySQL experience too ;) 

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  2. I thought VS won both of the '05s? -

     

    On 28.5.2016 at 6:57 PM, VickySilver said:

    I was the "guilty"party on the '05s (yes, I liked the cleaned one also), the '07 and the '09 - sorry that was me. I thought those prices entirely reasonable. The OMS  QE II I had to let go of as with premium that now approaches 600 quid and far more than I have paid in the past for similar issues; maybe that is the new price for these??

     

  3. 2 hours ago, davidrj said:

    I was the underbidder :D

    It was at 50 when I put 200 down, I figured it would get up to 100 odd which isn't all that bad considering it was actually a very nice 1934 in itself, and added an extra 100 because of the missing waves. I did wonder if someone on here nabbed it.

  4. I don't think you need to worry about treating the wood if you're keeping the coins in quadrums. When you get round to it Brian, start a thread and post some pics while you're doing it, would be great to see it progress! :) 

  5. 9 minutes ago, VickySilver said:

    Welcome to the club, LCA soured me quite a bit in this same way several years ago and has dissuaded a lot of bidding from me. This IMO is a very poor business motto that reminds me of what they try a lot on the East Coast of the USA - burn the customer up front for as much as possible and damn the long term consequences. Not to name names but Stack's in the USA does this same type of thing...

    I still bid but is quite irritating pushing me to find a rep for auctions.

    At least I got a free club membership from it I suppose. Where do we meet to malign LCA?

  6. One thing that really p***** me off with the last LCA auction was that I put a high bid on one coin as my maximum, it was way over the higher estimate, and because it was via email and I wasn't in the room they just opened the bidding with my maximum and of course that was the hammer price. Even though it states on their website;

    "...this does not mean that you will pay the maximum, you will pay the next bidding step up from the under bidder." and "Bidders will supply their maximum level and London Coins will execute this instruction at the sale, lots may be obtained for less than the maximum bid."

    :angry:

    Needless to say, that wasn't how the CC auction went.

  7. I quite enjoyed that type of auction, but I suppose I was bidding and not selling. I think I would prefer an auction house though because I think they have a bigger client base and can therefore reach more customers. I would also say that the quick-fire and pressured situation an auction brings might cause some people to bid higher than they should, because you don't have the luxury of time to think.

     

  8. 10 minutes ago, 1949threepence said:

    You can, but you also have to remember that buying coins off e bay is like searching for buried treasure in shark infested waters. For sure, there are bargains to be had, but you need to be experienced in working e bay auctions to best advantage, as well as really knowing your area of interest, such that it becomes an area of expertise. Not to mention possessing an ability to accurately discern grading from often poor photography.   

    I reckon I can do it now, but it's taken 10 years of trial and error, and several occasions of getting my fingers burned, to get there. Good luck B)  

    Yes be prepared for that, but don't be disheartened. It happens to us all, even as you become more experienced.

    Sometimes you take a punt and it turns out to be nothing, other times not. It's all part of the fun.

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  9. Get yourself to a coin fair Chapps, there'll be an excellent selection just to browse and get a feel of what you like.

    For example, pictures cannot prepare you for how small a farthing actually is. All coin denominations look the same size when they're squared off and blown up in photos.

    Welcome by the way ;)

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