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Had this arrive from Australia- the seller couldn't work out why anyone would pay AU$30 shipping on an AU$2 coin.... then he looked closer, realised what it was, but said it was his mistake and honoured the deal!!! His Ebay name is 'the_jittery_horse'- a real honest seller!

Totally agree with Nons on the wordpress recommendation, I do exactly the same. It also helps with posting pics on here, I just copy/paste them into a reply such as this one! Here's another newbie I'm quite pleased with, could do with less bag chatter though ...

not much on the coin front metal detecting wise, always nice to dig silver, has 24 above the date, die number ?

Cheers Kev. I couldn't believe it- I was doing the usual...you know....you know that if you did some standard searches once a day you'd catch stuff, but then you're too busy or can't be arsed and suddenly you get the OCD urge to REALLY look, so you get involved in a two-hour trawl... It was 2 in the morning, I'd finished the malt,.... "just one more look".... and this guy had about fifteen 1908's in a row, all similar condition to this one, so I thought " this lot, then stop".......it was the last bloody one.....I was so tired I had to look again and again....... ( I told my friend that we all thought he was OCD, and he said " you mean CDO, surely, ........alphabetical order......" )

A lot of those poor buggers in WW1 lost more than a 1/-

Do yourself a website on wordpress. Extremely easy to do and as long as you remember to upload the photos you can keep track and compare grades etc of what you have v what's on offer. Mind it won't stop you buying duplicates. I have 3 x 1911 and 5 x 1923 half crowns.... www.noncoins.wordpress.com Is mine and is really useful at the coin fairs.

The forum has been like the Marie Celeste of late - where is everybody? A Victoria copper halfpenny for consideration.

You're really setting the bar rather high for us mere mortals

Struggling to get them in focus but my 1829 Maundy set:

After 8 plus years, i think I've gone as far as I can, for the time being, on the 1860 to 1901 series of pennies. I still have some very obvious gaps, but the rarer pieces are very difficult to come by, so my acquisitions from this series have slowed to a trickle. As a result I've branched out to the pennies of George V. Most of these are relatively easy to obtain in UNC at much lower prices than the bun series, but there are some rare ones, or at any rate, rare in high grade. The KN's are among the few in that era which have an exceptionally steep price/grade differential. I'm therefore very pleased to have obtained this 1918KN, which, unusually for any pennies of that WW1 era, has an exceptionally good strike, with very good hair detail on the King's head. There is a tiny metal flaw between Britannia's arm and the trident, and the tiniest blemish to the right of the trident, neither of which detract. But that apart it's issue free and has noticeable residual lustre and nice even toning.

Well, of course it's "upper" - you wouldn't find a seraph in hell!

The video in the link worked fortunately. My crystal ball broke and I didn't see it coming lol.