Edward III penny and a cautionary Royal Mail story.

[jelida]

During the first week of May I spotted a 'Silver Hammered Penny King Edward I' for sale as a Buy-it-now' on Ebay, £38 total including Ebay insurance and 48hr Royal Mail Tracked delivery. As the coin was in fact an Edward III florin coinage penny of Canterbury, and quite scarce, I bought it and tracking showed that the vendor posted it on 10th May. Over the next 48hrs or so it tracked to the Birmingham MC sorting office - where it stayed. After a fortnight I spoke to the vendor who contacted RM and received an unhelpful reply and no coin. After 3 weeks Ebay gave me my money back within 24hrs of my claim as suggested by the vendor and I wrote the coin off mentally with much regret. It is noteworthy that with the refund Ebay actually state that if the purchase is subsequently found it can be kept and they do not have to be informed. Well, it was delivered out of the blue by postie on Thursday! Only 8 weeks in transit! The vendor and I have exchanged several cheerful emails and I get to keep the coin for nothing!

As far as I can tell the coin is S1547, N1122 (VR) and DIG Obv 1 rev Ai. 

Jerry

[Coinery]

We’re just getting ready to fly out to Germany for a wedding, so can’t comment at this point.

Interestingly, I hadn’t noticed the DIG Galata guide until your post, another book to buy!

[copper123]

Yes , royal snail do things like this very often now since they started their double digit price increases about five or so years ago ,

Disgraceful service

[scottishmoney]

I've had several rather less than commendable experiences with Royal Fail in the past few years.  A couple of them stand out, the purchase of a Scottish square £1 note from 1909 that seemingly took a long detour for four months about four years ago - I worked with seller, filed a claim got refunded and the out of the blue the parcel showed up and I paid the seller for the note.  Then about a year ago a parcel with some 19th century banking memorabilia dropped off the face of the earth in London - same thing, worked with seller got refunded and then like six months later it showed up.

What a contrast - I frequently get several parcels, even large parcels from Ukraine all the time with complete tracking and despite the fact they are at war with Russia - parcels come through with efficiency.  Ukrposhta is an enterprise that tries to deliver despite the circumstances - Royal Fail is a sad excuse.  Now auction purchases from the London auction houses have to come either DHL or Fedex.