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There is a 1906 Shilling on there £120 CGS 70 Gouby 2A. Now does he mean obv 2 rev A or 2A rev A? because if he means the former that coin has been wrongly attributed. That coin is the rarer type obverse 2A with the split foot on R short arm of E and the straight legs away from the adjacent legend letters. How can CGS make such an oversight. Unless it was slabbed pre 2009?

I think the seller gives a start time and a finish time. a start price and bid incr of a £1. He then counts down the sale like 90 mins ,hour left, 30 mins down 10 secs left then end . Not private bids

I was in a few groups on facebook prob the ones you guys were in pre-decimal group and another but the toxicity of folk just puts me right off. I guess whoever the guy is Darren had the right idea he auctioned off tickets @ w/e price per ticket So he knew when all were sold his cost or call it reserve price was auto fixed e.g 50 tickets @ £2 for a kew 50 p. . He always had punters falling over themselves to get tickets and he never over did things like 1000 tickets or ridiculous amounts. One of the good guys. It serves well as reputation builds quickly and if you flout it and try and hoodwink folk your name will spread across the channel quicker than verdigris on an old penny. Lost touch a little as I couldn't sit and watch decent folk get taken advantage of. 1966 Half Penny in a coin capsule £5 "posted" If it came by securicor I wouldn't give £5 maybe for 10 lol

Hi folks need a little assistance in the photography world if we were to compare it to an IQ rating mine's about 5 Question is I think half my problem is if I am thinking on the right lines my 35 mm x optical zoom Praktica camera isn't man enough for close up work even on the copy-stand it still has blur and that is with a timer and super macro setting. I am starting to understand little by little about shutter speeds and F settings. So if I by a macro lens 70-210 mm will that be a better set up and if so how do i fix it to the front of the camera do I need a conversion ring? I want to use the camera so as to show coins in the true state and not from a x200 microscope that really is meant for variety identification. The tinies mark looks like a bolder has been dropped but in reality under a graders loupe you would be lucky to see it. I mean it is probably 99% pilot error but I have tried over the last 2 years with all settings and I cannot replicate the nice clear pictures you see online and even zoomed in the quality never changes. Zoom in on mine and you go wonky eyed . any help would be most appreciated thanks Rich

You only have to type in rare error and it is frightening how many there are . Or I should say are not errors at all just scammer bait. Perhaps they should change the name to Ebait lol

look how much the prices have changed this post was 3 years ago and he was hoping to get an edinburgh in a few years i.e. today for £20. and Kew's in 3014 were £30 if only

Many of these about chaps. 187 7 normal and 187 7 ?

The blaggards.

RM price hike? that's the price on their web page

All together boys and girls OHHHH NO it isn't https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1908-Penny-Fman-164A-Very-Rare/152761603017 Declan has that harp got PIE written on it?

Description should of read used to be two sided https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Error-Coin-Half-Crown-dated-1950-One-Sided/332424278000

Best I could do VS I am afraid. I think they have an anti-snap stealer or the thumb is so small but it might be ok

It is a shame as the good guys and we have prob all of them on here get judged from afar with the same mistrust that old saying " all the bloody same" which couldn't be further from the truth. However I think the good guys are in the minority when it comes to dealers. M.A.Coins and V.coins should show you that. I don't know how many there are between the two outlets but it must be hundreds. All Crooks. All can't grade and all overprice and never mention any faults on the coins. How did it get so bad? I'll pay for a coin whatever the value should be but when your faced with x2 to x5 book value. I wonder how they pay their bills? Everyone and his dog knows that spink UNC coins especially the Bronze and copper issues are for RED FDC coins not Brown AUNC coins or even Brown UNC. My take was whatever the EF price was, is the non red colour prices. I have seen some of the websites from guys here and they are the only ones who have credibility IMHO and tbh you're too generous with your undergrading. But like myself I know why you do it. And its kudos to the dealer that looks at a possible AEF and calls it VF. Not many will

Doesn't the Martini set have Martini written on the cover? And why show only the reverse of a coin so valuable. Sorry but no way would I dip my toe unless I saw the 1983 that goes with the reverse It is the heinz with the name on the cover. Still would want to see the obverse

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/EAST-INDIA-COMPANY-1840-ONE-RUPEE-BETTER-DATE-NO-RESERVE-W655/362141511225 What you think? A member of everything known to man 129k sales and selling this junk. That just hits my panic button.

This is just gross this guy has this and the next sale below I don't know which is the worse cast rubbish out of the two http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/India-1-One-Rupee-Rupia1840-Queen-Victoria-RARE-106-2/152458880618

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2016-Beatrix-Potter-Peter-Rabbit-Silver-Proof-50p-Coloured-Coins-Full-Set-5-2/311966819331 I picked that one as the seller has high rating and the cross through on the buy now means he made a deal. But at what who knows? My guess is £1500 but utter madness if you ask me

Also stranger things have happened at sea it could be serial numbers?

Looking on the RM site it has mintage figures of 30k for each but that's just the silver proofs

I am not sure if there are two versions of the silver proof normal and coloured but when stocks were still plentiful they were still fetching £150 and now I guess with the RM sold out of all of them Demand has caught up and human folk being human folk will pay anything to say I have one?

Hi folks I am assuming this subject has probably been broached before . How to ascertain How many of each die number was allocated to each coin. I was trying to think of a logical formula . Example for 1873 sixpence there were a total of 90 different die numbers used that are recorded. So mintage of 4,594,733 /90 = 50,000 (rounded to make it easier) different die combinations of which 79 die numbers were used on reverse A again rounded for ease of explanation that equates to 82% of the total die numbers struck are reverse A which is 40,000 (simplified) Which leaves 10,000 coins struck between reverse B with 6 die numbers and reverse C with 5 die numbers So something like 5,500 for rev B and 4,500 for rev C. The only problem is they would of had to use every die number the same amount of times throughout the mintage year but did they? Who is to say the used more of one number than another Which I suspect would account for the missing die numbers? Any thoughts ? it's a very complex formula to try and fathom and probably impossible. Only anecdotal evidence would be a strict keeping of all sales records for every die number and that would still leave those coins in private collections.

Peter rabbit Silver proof @ £900 and still going. Not a bad return on £60 investment for someone

£600-£900 Is the general concensus, But I think in our hysteria fuelled society after seeing the die 5 1863 and narrow 3 1863 pennies in no better than fine grade trade our for £35,000 Any amount wouldn't surprise me. I am thinking at least the £1000-£1200 mark? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4049058/Time-shake-piggy-bank-1983-New-Pence-2p-coin-worth-THOUSANDS-thanks-error-production.html This is the kind of misinformation that fuels the hysteria. These fake news people. If that coin sold for £100 on fleabay then it is a fake. Obviously 2 different coins and I doubt that coin came from a BU or proof set. Reporter claims thousands were made in error. Total BS . People can search mount kilimanjaro and they will never find one. Unless someone who had a set decided to just lob it in his pocket lol. I know Michael Gouby had a set for sale but no idea what he wanted for it or if it is still available

I seen NGC slabs and PCGS slabs with them in and the all appear to have and incuse B on the center trident prong. Lots of fakes will have as well and there are thousands of them. bur if you bought from a reputable dealer you should be ok. failing that take a few snapshots and post them and I amsure you're mind will be put a rest

The Royal mint as always very cagey about amounts. but 681,000 were struck in 1983 Allegedly and only for the BU sets and proof sets No royal mint set had coins with New pence error on them.It only concerned the Heinz and Martini sets. Not all of those had the mules in . Doesn't really answer your question fully I know but . It can't be very many