zookeeperz

My sources come from actual family who work in the NHS hospitals. You know the Irish they do like to become Nurses . Thankfully most are dealt with long before they reach a hospital ward. . No different to any other business there will always be those who try it on. Even the qualified ones go rogue from time to time.

Yes we need the service but we must vet carefully who they employ. Some of these nurses and doctors are not even qualified. It's frightening to be perfectly honest.

On a more positive note after the £2 debarckle A very smart 1862 Half Penny

Postman arrived about an hour ago which is unusually late for them but I was pleased as it was my order from westminster or is it changechecker? with my twin BU 2018 Mike the bike Isle of man £2 40 and 60 year commemoratives . Biggest load of crap I have held in my hands. I think changechecker must of made them themselves Just horrible scratched contaminated rubbish. I wanted to take them out of the sleeves but then I am open to them saying the coins were fine when we sent them bla bla. So excuse the pic quality but you will get an idea of what they look like. Trying palm these off as BU coins. I am so angry is there no safe haven from scamming b********ds?

The non proof coin are the same perhaps the subjects they chose were undernourished and were given wrong stylist advice about hairstyles

Don't ask me why but i just find this coin so appealing . I don't think I have seen many cleaner struck coins. Unless I am missing some minute detail it as perfect as perfect gets. massive coin in terms of weight . Makes our cartwheel twopence seem light in comparison . Weighing in at 62.90 grams 50 mm but price tag of £70 seems a tad high but then with a mintage of only 888 is it really too high? Fiji 2013 .9999 Silver Proof year of the snake. what do you think chaps?

I am the purveyor of bad news I contacted leftovercurrency and asked about the prices they had listed on certain coins as they seemed to be rather generous. I think I might of saved the guys job So I am expecting a gift in my mailbox . They had just updated the site and the prices we saw were input errors. Shame really as I was just about to purchase 1500 stotinov coins 10-20-50 500 of each for £79 in the hope of receiving just short of £7000 as the price for the 50 stotinov was advertised at £9 each the £2.50 and £1.50 ish. Oh well maybe this time next year we'll be millionaires?

I am waiting for you to discover another coin that will make you trip over your bottom lip.

Conspiracy theorist that I am makes you wonder why they are willing to pay so much for obsolete coinage as in specific coins? Have they been tampered with ? is there something deep in the coin that they need to retrieve? All these questions will be answered tonight on Film at 11

Yes I saw those but I didn't want to be too greedy lols

Only that coin though the others are pretty much worthless. look on the site you will see it. £3 a pop. luvly jubbly I will ring them tomorrow to confirm their prices before I make a suicide purchase lmao

In that case i'm about to take europe by storm and buy £6000 for £150 lol

No that site i looked through the exchange rates for coins and most are just pennies as you would imagine but when i looked at the exchange rate for italian coins all were crap apart from 1955 1 lire i think the series runs from 1951-2001 for every one you send you get £3 surely that can't be right???

Are those prices right? some of the coins have massive values one 1955 1 llre £3 each surely not?

I normally go on NGC and type a few of the years in and see what they book them at. Sometimes one of your coins will surprise you how much they are worth. I even sold a holed USA Dollar flowing hair type for £250 and a 100 mils can't remember the date 1935 ish only had mintage of 200k Sold that for £200. and a tiny silver coin with a peacock on for £150 unknown to me at the time had a character somewhere on the coin that made it a rare type. Think it was burma. And for the most part foreign coin lots are punted out by Brits so they don't have a clue what's there and can't be bothered to look unless it is something well known and some coins you wouldn't look twice at and are quite modern are worth thousands. Example 1953 canadian 5 cent NSF (no shoulder fold) Near leaf in AU-50 so GVF drum roll $6,900 canadian £3000+. That's where I try to hone in on the other countries Variety types but I need more books and some of them are unbelievable how much they cost £100+. But the net has quite a lot of good sites Sammler deals with german coins and lists all the rare coins . Even the new Euro's Some of them are now worth thousands. There must be a lot of foreign coins in the marketplace for each year even dates in the 1800's are like 1971 Pennies you think they must be worth a few pennies but they are abundant even in UNC. It's worth having a look it will pay for itself

wasn't that done for photographic purposes? I can't see 1 going in circulation and that's it even if it was not supposed to be released. history tells us there are always a handful at least before somebody notices? Probably not the best example to use as you rightly say it was a new obverse. But you could use the 1955 DDO lincoln as an example for British coin collectors Double struck even triple struck coins are much of a muchness unless it is a striking separation if they had continue with the opinion they had and had they been presented with the lincoln 1955 DDO would they have classified it as such ? I only used that coin in the convo's just trying to hi-light a variety becomes important to collectors for a variety of reasons and if something out of the ordinary comes in to be graded then it should be designated with any unique attribute never encountered before and you only have to thumb through the price guides and every single variety type has a premium over the normal except where coins like the 1888/7 shilling occurs when the normal standard date is scarcer than the overdate. But they did change their stance and has been a major step forward or you guys that have vast knowledge on variety types and have collected lots of data would of never seen your coins recognised or found it extremely difficult to get some in. If we have to drag the old school boys kicking and screaming in to the modern era where change isn't always a bad idea so be it I say

I enquired about payment methods and delivery costs to an auction that was taking place on the 26th may . I emailed them on the 23rd they answered the 28th. 2 days after it finished lol. But alas they are one of the bank transfer only or cash in person brigade and a delivery charge of £30. adding that to the vat and online bidding premium of 3% makes the lot you were bidding on or interested in just too expensive. It will kill the trade eventually just another government pocket picking exercise for items we have already paid tax on god knows how many times.

I was umming and rring about the xmas 50 pence's myself at one time. They have a huge following and prices just go crazy at times. Although it would seem the issuers have also cottoned on with the ever increasing purchase prices. No change there but too many thumbs in too many pies is never a good thing so I let it rest and just view from afar lol

True it isn't something that floats my boat but there are those that this is their niche area of collecting. You only have to look outside the UK and they catalogue absolutely everything as it is a historic reference as to what stage the die was at ,at any given time during it's life. We are less concerned with such minor variations but having said that if we took that approach for every coin the 1920 penny with colon dots to tooth would of been overlooked as just an anomaly. My concern with CGS at the time which was 2007 and when they first started grading was they as stated only recognising established varieties I had a coin 8/8 but because it was so high it looked like a 3 looped 8 if you get me . In another correspondence before this one they had said such a defect would not enhance the value of a coin to which I pointed them to a sale of two coins one in UNC and the other in EF with the same overstrike the UNC coin was just normal. The overstrike in EF sold for 3x more than the UNC coin which kind of put pay to their assumption. My argument was they are there to catalogue and not to decide what is or what isn't a variety. Collectors decide what is desirable to themselves and that is the great thing about this hobby it caters for every kind of indulgence weather you collect coins without any imperfections at all or coins with so many die cracks they look like spider webs, Brockages,upsets etc. A grader is there to really IMO as a 2nd opinion to confirm what you already know. Just because I tell you something that doesn't automatically make it 100% accurate as mistakes are made but if someone else has the same findings you have it gives fair weight to the claim you make especially if selling on the coins in the same way as provenance does . I just pointed out they would set a dangerous president if they were to cherry pick what they thought was deemed a variety type. Even some of the minor types have all now appreciated in value and that is only because there is demand for them . Yes but ultimately it was a real surprise after many discussions they did a complete U-turn which is kudos to them

Not recognise mistrikes. almost sacrilege . Glad they saw the light though

Stephen Lockett <steve@londoncoins.co.uk> To 'rich fox' CC paul@londoncoins.co.uk 23/11/07 at 12:51 PM Hello Richard, We have discussed your interesting comments. The first and simplest issue is rejects, our system has now developed so that any and all rejects should be returned along with a ticket fully attributing the coins and including instead of a grade the reason why it has been rejected usually verdigris or corrosion which the graders have seen on the coin. Although our system is configured around known coin types and varieties we have the facility to add new varieties as they emerge, our teething problem which you have encouraged us to debate is what criteria to use when recording new varieties. Our current position is that if the variety was likely created by a miss striking we will not set it us as a new variety but where it is clearly a product of a faulty of different die we will. We would like to see your UIN 3124 again and review and reconsider our position please. Also any coins you have received back un – encapsulated without a description of why they were rejected please send them back and we will provide a new ticket explaining the reason. There will of course be no charges for both these revisits On a general note I would like to say we appreciate your support, CGS is a very new service with at present a small developing client base and we are relying on the continuation of this support. All your feedback is valued and will be considered and it is our policy to move the business forward in a way that satisfies all our client’s requirements. Regards, Stephen Lockett CGS

Much better last time I was going to send off coins to ngc was 2 years ago and it was I think $38 for coins of value under $500 i'll check later