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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?
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30 minutes ago, Michael-Roo said:
The snake is quite successfully rendered, but the two men look as though they've been sourced from a primary school art project.
The non proof coin are the same perhaps the subjects they chose were undernourished and were given wrong stylist advice about hairstyles
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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?
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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?
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I am waiting for you to discover another coin that will make you trip over your bottom lip.
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1 minute ago, Unwilling Numismatist said:
why not .. 500 pesetas @ £1.59.
I think I might have to google the ones they pay most for ... must be an alterior otive there surely!
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
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2 minutes ago, Unwilling Numismatist said:
5 centesmi are £1.50 .... thats 2 worth looking for!
Yes I saw those but I didn't want to be too greedy lols
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5 minutes ago, Unwilling Numismatist said:
I punted a ton of lira a couple of months ago, worthless I thought. hmm.
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
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2 minutes ago, will1976 said:
I'm not sure zoo, they paid me out at the prices they quoted on the website with no quibble
In that case i'm about to take europe by storm and buy £6000 for £150 lol
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1 minute ago, Unwilling Numismatist said:
What new euros? as mentioned, I pulled about 50 euros out of this pile, some are aunc....
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???
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On 29/05/2018 at 6:23 PM, will1976 said:
I've recently disposed of a couple of kilos of foreign coinage and some obsolete banknotes through 'Left over currency' https://www.leftovercurrency.com/ None of the banknotes where decent enough grades for collecting so this was the next best option. It is a little tedious sorting all the coins and logging them in but it was worthwhile as I got back £122, it will just depend on what you have but from memory they paid quite high for Swiss and German coins. It took about a week from them receiving them to paying out
Are those prices right? some of the coins have massive values one 1955 1 llre £3 each surely not?
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On 29/05/2018 at 5:56 PM, Unwilling Numismatist said:
I'm going to have to face up to the task and go through all my foreign junk soon, but I was wondering if anyone had and words of wisdom first please?
Is it worth it, or should I job-lot it all out of the door.
Is there anything I should be on the lookout for - I don't want to play variety hunting with this lot, so the totally obvious will be fine, anything microscopic will go in the pile for bulk unless it might change my life or wallet contents significantly.
It all dates from late 1800's to now-ish.
Thanking you all in advance for any wisdom imparted.
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
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2 hours ago, Peckris said:
Not a minor variation - it's the new obverse and quite possibly unique for 1920. As the known example is in the (?British?) Museum, it has never been overlooked.
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
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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.
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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
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3 hours ago, Unwilling Numismatist said:
I have to say that sounds remarkably positive of them in their new approach.
I'd probably be in the same mind set regarding mis-strikes though, take £2 coins for example - many many of these are not "quite right" with regards to the beads around the Queen's head, so how would you best add a category.
For variety collectors, there would probably be way too many combinations of missing or mis-struck linear circle dots and degrees of angle at which the coin is affected (you never know, one day people might want to try that lol - just playing DA)
To simplify it though, why not just have a mis-strike comment in the same manner that there can be a (cleaned) comment on the label.
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
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Not recognise mistrikes. almost sacrilege . Glad they saw the light though
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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 revisitsOn 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
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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
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17 minutes ago, 1949threepence said:
I'd imagine it is. Did fakers ever bother going down as low as 10p?
Well I have seen contemporary shillings george VI so not beyond the realms of possibility?
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ebay tried to tell me they charged the correct amount so having had just about enough today with one thing or another. I copied and pasted the customs charter in his PM box lmao. And said read this you thick B********d. I guess i'll get reported again. already been banned from the forum lol. Don't you just get enraged when you know they are reading from a dummy card and have no common sense whatsoever? bunch of clowns
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Latest news the seller cancelled the sale and said stuff ebay GSP. Put $14 expedite shipping on buy now £69 total inc shipping. Result
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2 hours ago, Unwilling Numismatist said:
Nice R/B there Zoo!
yes really lucky on this I originally bought it because I thought it was first I over I sideways in IIII but not so sure . I can't get the right light to show it. Looked more obvious from online but because there is die break it's kind of masking what it is. Gladly take the former
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