Colin G.

You can block postage to certain countries by revising the listing. Do you want to block all sales to Poland or just this one? If you only want to block this one, do as Dave has said.

That's the important bit!!

But more important to make sure you know what you are buying when you are spending bigger sums!! Easier to make a big mistake, so choose carefully and make sure you know exactly what you are buying

Maxine, I agree some pics would be great

No, it's not money by their definition, but it might be "valuables". The thing is you are not "offering insurance", you are complying with Paypal & Ebay's requirements, so as long as you have the tracking evidence you are protected from charge backs. If something went genuinely missing when sent using recorded, I would be willing to refund the customer anyway, because it is not their problem and then I would take my chances with trying to claim from Royal Mail. Buyer's risk stands for nothing where paypal and ebay are concerned, you can splatter it all over your auction, but if it goes missing, the seller ends up paying out...guaranteed!! Just follow their guidelines and problems are few and far between

That's why it is better to do it the way Ebay/Paypal want you to, you can justify the postage costs and it protects you. At the end of the day it is only to reduce the amount of risk for Paypal but it just makes life simpler

Peter I only offer recorded delivery now when selling on ebay, through my site I will use normal postage at my discretion. That way I am protected from chargebacks.....it took me a while to change but paypal forced my hand

My thoughts exactly although its not local.I've been to Wakefield,Harrogate and a few smaller local fairs but I always tend to find something at the Midland. Oi get aaarf my land

Whilst detecting I have found more counterfeit George III silver than genuine...it must have been prolific at that time. Obviously the examples I own have suffered substantially as a result of being silvered base metal, although I did find a "nicer than usual" example of a sixpence the other day, I will try and dig out some pics!!

Those bigger Roman bronzes are always more difficult to locate in higher grades

£632.50 incl. premium Cheers Rob!!

Rob, Do you know what lot 123 in Spink 154 (12 July 2001) realised? Do you realise you have become the "google" of the numismatic community

Ooh now we are talking!!!

Oh, I accept what you say. But my feeling is that specially minted coins were meant to be admired as presentation pieces or kept as examples for archiving and study. While they can be spent as regular coinage, I don't believe that was what they were created for. Hence the distinction. Connecting them with modern tat was I guess just Cabernet Sauvignon driven hyperbole! Yeah, laik. Dem youff wot haz no jobs an is on benefits, Dey don pay no tax does em? (Sadly I haz no street cred an carn't keep up wit de chavese, elsin I'd be payin no taxis eeVah, no wot Ah mean?) I even heard the accent in my head...that was so bizarre!!

A very interesting thread this has turned out to be...I am also in the "few hundred pounds category". Mind you it's not through lack of trying, I just must get tighter as the price goes up because I always lose out!! As for favourite coin....that is sooooo tough.......can there be several? Do we have any rules in place or am I allowed to bend them? Some nice coins going on display

I also wish they would keep the tickets with the coin in question on bulk lots

Rob good to see you got one of the coins you wanted from DNW. The prices seemed to be quite strong throughout the sale. Tom just to show I dangle my toe in both camps, a hammered farthing I recently acquired

I agree so many variations in this series, you will be better matching up early milled farthings with Colin Cookes collection, he managed to list a vast majority of the varieties in his various lists

I suppose you will also get denomination collectors who may be looking to encase their collection and therefore some of the later dates will inevitably get submitted. You just have to look at the vast amounts of modern currency slabbed in the states. The population report shows 49 decimal 1/2 pennies graded and 162 decimal pennies encased, so the halfcrowns look quite sensible in comparison

Any farthings in there you want to get rid of

I am jumping into your camp as well and would echo your comments entirely!!

That's the difference between photographing them in the slab and out of the slab, you can get the lighting right when out of a slab, but it is very difficult when encapsulated

The Scottish one looks like a David II, David can be made out in the legend

These must have been from the same hoard, but were not mine I only have a couple left which are slabbed and were the pick of the incuse midrib examples. They seem to be evrywhere at the moment, there must have been a huge bundle originally.

I was going to sy it's amazing how things have snowballed...but then I thought having the word "ball" is only going to fuel the flames