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Clearly I had a bad day when I posted this.... I wont the 02 and 05 not the 06 Bith just arrived, both look better in hand although there is a touch of verd on the 02 Its not clear on the pictures that it is verd but in hand it is clear to see. It looks like it will just flick off when I get home though

I had an email earlier saying they were shipping them today for delivery tomorrow

Is MDF safe to use? I though the glues used to bind it could potentially affect the coins. Is there anyone with more experience able to confirm this?

I guess the first thing to ask is what type of wood are they made from?

I won the 1902 and the 1906. The 06 is a weak strike but looked OK for the money. The 02 I am hoping is better in hand.

A new Farthing for my collection this week

Well I won two lots so that's a couple of nice additions.

The three I bid on are marked as sold at the price I dropped on them but no email confirmation a yet.

Welcome Bob. Check out the grading book from rotographic as a good starting point for later milled predecimal. It's a great starter book.

Chris is usualy at the coin fair and is a decent bloke to deal with. The coins I have had off him I have been happy with.

The Quadrums are great in the Lighthouse S6 case, andyjack also sells these:

I have no hope of contacting them at the moment. The CGS number goes unanswered and the London coins number gets answered by Semra and you're told we're not CGS and get hung up on.... emails are hit an miss sometimes the reply is within minutes others there is no reply. I will have to wait and see what happens but contractually they cannot take the higher fee as its not what I signed up for.

Seems to be fine here and no changes to the fee's mentioned above that I can see

They can't charge anymore than I signed up for on the submission form as far as I am aware. I am guessing they will either return my coins or charge me under the pricing model on the submission for I signed.

So I have decided to send a few coins to CGS in part because I had to send two slabs in anyway for reslabbing so I decided to sanity check my grading against a TPG. @azda asked me to post what I was sending in so you could give your own grades and I was discussing the whole process with @Paulus yesterday. I had these down as: Coin Obv Rev 1817 HC GVF GVF 1911 HC EF gEF 1912 HC aEF EF 1913 HC aEF aEF 1916 HC gEF gEF 1918 HC EF EF 1919 HC gEF gEF

Sorry to hijack your thread @ozjohn I will create a new one when I get the coins back.

Well seven Half crowns will be going to the post office in about an hour along with two pennys to be reslabbed so I imagine I will see some results back in a couple of months I think most will be graded between 50 and 70 based on their grading guide if they are not rejected. I will post the UIN's once I get them.

I am still new to all this compared a most of you but I totally agree with azda. I started to focus on George V half crowns as they were relatively cheap 8 months ago (is it just me or do the prices for decent George V half crowns seem to have gone a bit mad on ebay/at the coin fairs of late?) and not knowing how much the quality can vary so much year to year. I still find it hard to judge if my grading is accurate or not. It seems the ear on a 1914 HC, which would be gvf on other dates, is EF on a 14 etc. I have actually decided to take the plunge and send some of my half crowns to CGS to see what grades I get back versus what I think they are.

Thanks Pete it arrived today and is my first example of a Bun head penny. Spot on!

Thanks for all the coins Pete. Every one is spot on.

I asked the seller about this pretty much stating sold at LCA, March, £100 etc etc. The feedback I had was: No sorry think you have made a mistake I brought this on eBay not less then 3 weeks ago for nearly 500 on bids if you have the info for this coin please share as I will be contact eBay bout this matter as I've had another dealer tell me a coin I had was another from another aution which i also won on eBay many thanks again shelly So it appears they may have been had in the first place.....

Sorry Jon Looks like I am going to be adding a new penny page to my web site

Yes please Pete.

Paid Pete.

Go on Pete add it to the others please.