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best I could do in ten years...accidental find...

Will the coloured ones be more expensive? If so, I can imagine the likes of marleybob and other Ebay trash buying those big sets of Sharpie pens that have lots of different colours!!

It depresses me that the plural of forum is now accepted as "forums" instead of "fora". Even spell check highlights the second, not the first.

yes very difficult unless the image is good and has been photographed central and at right angles ....😑 but still a nice coin 👍

Plus the ones further round look thicker. I bought it anyway because it was a reasonable price and it's better than my current 1911, so I knew I had nothing to lose. Didn't think it was, but was worth a look if only for comparison purposes. But this is my pic of the same obverse. You can immediately see the difference. The moral being, when it comes to border teeth and things pointing to them, pics can be extremely deceptive.

Yes yes yes!! This afternoon I had a friend reckon that the console I've nearly finished is "pretty unique' and I pressed the button.....!

The one that bugs me constantly is "unique". Everything seems to be unique these days, even frequently qualified with "very". If something is unique there is only one of it, so "very unique" is meaningless. On the antiques programs, which I generally enjoy, "unique" is trotted out for almost anything even slightly out of the ordinary.

I am pretty sure the crayoned in coins are more expensive

I acquired mine for 350 when Stone sold up, which was ok given he paid 500 for it in Nicholson. Happy days

ooh yeah! It is second declension, after all, which is what people assume about 'referendum', and come unstuck. 'Referenda' was often used by people who wanted to appeared learned, rather like 'Alas, poor Yorick, I knew him well' and 'stuff that dreams are made of' etc..etc....I don't worry any more- language evolves, but when someone talks crap with a smug look on their face I press the button marked 'launch all missiles'....:)

Since the start of Covid, 'data' has been referred to as a plural, strangely, after decades of everyone getting it wrong... 'Referenda' seems to have vanished now, thank heaven, replaced by 'referendums', but remember that we are often not the arbiters of good usage: in US supermarkets one till/checkout is labelled '15 items or fewer', quite correctly, instead of using 'less', and it can easily be argued that 'math' is the correct abbreviation of 'mathematics', and not 'maths'.....

Those days are difficult for collectors. For example, the briots sixty shilling ms61 is bought by wessex coins for around 10500 pounds(including buyer premium), but he lists that on his website for an unreasonable 18500 pounds. For some rare coins, you need to be "luxury" at some time, otherwise you are likely to find it far more expensive on a “dealer"’s website.

Hmm..saw that....it's tricky - I think the light angle is once again moving the teeth about.....a bit like Ken Dodd's passport photo....

I only bought one coin in the spink auction yesterday -- 1732 half guinea au55. The price is slightly beyond the "fair price", and I am quite lucky. Those kind of rare coins can easily be far more expensive than "fair price". An au58 1731 half guinea sold for 4800 pounds without buyer premium.

https://www.dnw.co.uk/auctions/catalogue/results.php?auction_id=598 Lot numbers are spread around, but 1869 sixpence is 471. If you want a lot number for a particular coin just ask.

Thanks Eric. You might be interested in the 1869 sixpence that you liked when I posted it a long while ago.

I think one of the problems is that you see the word written down somewhere - often in the media - and if it's not a word used very often, you just assume it's correct. Inheritees isn't a "derivative" of a word I'd frequently use, and it sounds looks plausible enough. Whereas if someone writes, for example, "could of" instead of "could have", that immediately hits you in the eye as obviously incorrect grammar. Yet many do.

I did win two lots at decent prices, but missed out on four others. LCA has some nice coins soon, so hopefully a win or two there.

There is a lot of 1818 fakes .They are good ,but they all have a couple of things in common .A broken garter belt at PENSE and a dink on the forehead . Yours have neither , so looks alright .

Is the alignment right? It should be medal alignment, not coin alignment. There have been some very good forgeries of the 1818 and the only thing they got wrong was the alignment.

Looks kosher, and I doubt you'd see those contact marks on a wrong'un.

think my half crown is the bog standard one

I think Danelaw's hammered river finds are something special.... I've had some finds when hammered....

Is this just a case with some US collectors chasing the highest PCGS grades and paying over the top for the "finest known"? Would the price be a lot less if it say PF66 on the plastic rather than 67?

Here's a price rise in that sale: Anne pattern halfpenny P726: £1,800. I sold it in their March 2020 sale for £850. Aaagh..... Someone made a few hundred quid on it.