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Lord knows what the circumstances were, but I've just snapped up a coin on eBay for £96 that was sold by Lloyd Bennett only last month! Beautiful little thing in hand! Anyone know where/when the FEJ collection got sold off?

I am very pleased to announce the birth of my first granddaughter and second grandchild, Victoria Luisa. I had nothing to do with the choice of name but I am sure we can all imagine what one of her christening presents will be. Mother and daughter are doing well.

Not as straight forward as that, sadly...there's literature arguing one way or the other across a small window of types, so ultimately you'll have to find a place you're comfortable with, and accept it's the best you can do in light of the evidence! In reality, the primitive method of minting coins and cutting dies of that period are always going to overlap. Consider this: when the great recoinage potentially includes coins that have covered many, many, hundreds of year's circulation, I can't imagine for a second that a monarch's changeover could be distinguished by just a few die/punch details, even when their own vanity is taken into account? The great news is we'll know one day, simply because collectors are constantly asking the questions and digging ever deeper into the dies and historical documents! For the moment, however, I'm personallly happy with the Bente/Withers division. If this ever definitively changes, my coins won't...I'll just move one or maybe two coins along the page, nothing more!

Tim Farron, asked about the likelihood of the LibDems accepting the offer of a deal with the Tories: "No deal is better than a bad deal".

Congratulations to both you young fellers . I have five with one up to 17, born Jan 2nd 2000 just missed millennium day. Terry

It could be this Mick http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1911-One-Penny-Georgivs-V-Nice-Coin-Take-a-look-1-/252978713731?hash=item3ae6b4d483:g:yV4AAOSwfRdZErPV GoubyX. Terry

Thank you, Ukstu

According to Spink its Class 11a. ?

I know. Mostly for the better, though all the new 'themed' bars and souvenir tat shops in Mathew St. are a bit depressing, hardly the Mathew St. of our time which was the Eric's, Probe, Armadillo etc. of the late 1970s. You're right, the dock is always worth a visit. We had a very pleasant time there with our wives one evening, including a good dinner at Gusto.

So much has changed there. A lot of buildings where pulled down and new ones went up in the lead up to the capital of culture thing. The docklands area has had a lot of work done on it and attracted a lot of businesses to it mostly eateries and trendy bars but good for a quiet night out.

I was there last week for a walk around the old haunts with a friend who was over from Thailand. We hardly recognised the place as so much has changed these past few years. Liverpool One is quite impressive but I still can't believe that lovely George Henry Lee building is now a pound shop.

Me too, for 30 years. Now living near the Dee (via Cambridge).

They are in trouble. This is why they are shifting all the remaining stuff out of the basement. Just as in the 80s they jumped in and paid too much for stock. Couple that with the 'investment' side of things and it is quite easy for things to go wrong. What happens when investors want their money back? The odd one can be absorbed, too many and the prices crash. A good example of why coins should be for collecting and not investing in. Yes they might appreciate over time and give good returns, but given the spread between buying and selling, it is never going to be a short term investment. Every coin bought at auction should be marked down by 30% in value in the immediate aftermath because that is the combined difference between what you have just paid including the juice and an immediate resale net price after commissions. All their stamps will be priced according to their references. Does the market agree with the valuations - not at all. We all know that stamps can be picked up in most auctions for a fraction of what SG claim their value to be. Too many short term motives. My immediate thought when they announcecd they were buying Baldwins was that the top of the market was nigh. OK, I didn't guess the timing that well, but when anyone tries to corner a market and determine prices, the greater market will always win - whichever angle you come from. The steep increase in prices of the last decade has in large part come from marketing to people with access to significant amounts of money arising from quantitative easing that has no place to go, and is not related too closely to scarcity or past valuations. Kew Gardens 50ps anyone? You could probably cover one floor of Canary Wharf with the number struck.

You won't find any genuine dealers passing on coins that have previously been identified as copies, notwithstanding the permanent risk of a good one getting through. Dealers also tend not to list coins as unidentified. Particularly coins that verge on the iconic - this being the very first groat.

You should forward his responses to ebay. I would.