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Hello, New to the forum, Ive been interested in a multitude of items over many years and now I have time on my hands so need to play catch up as time is catching up on me as well. I've had a stroke in April 2024 and need to keep my head working as some time its broken. I have a collection (of sorts) of coins and will show and tell what I can remember, a few years back a pile of worn out silver ones were sold for scrap and a bought some others to replace these. many thanks for adding me to the forum I really need a new this in my life now, all the very best "H"

Hello and once again thank you for adding me to the forum. Ive had coins for over 38 years and its been a mixture of well its old so of interest and give it to him to keep him quiet. a hoard was given from my mother that were her fathers, all very old, worn and even some were drilled. I took the worn out ones and had them appraised by local coin experts, sadly just scrap value, it was a hard day choice but sold off them and bought a sovereign coin, time moves of and i then added Guineas, these will be a show and tell later on. I hope this is for interest for today. I will show the 1 Scudo, I had no idea of when or how much.. it wouldn't have been that much in them days i do remember it was before computers so 1992 ish Sanctvs . Marc . Venet 1624-1629

If in doubt, leave it out. Simples. They've stopped sending out catalogues ('to do their bit for the environment'). In response, I for my part am also doing my bit for the environment by not spending a day going through each lot one at a time (processing power takes a lot of resources too). Now I just look at the thumbnails and see if the coin is potentially of interest. I know I missed plenty in the last sale, but I'm afraid there are only 24 hours in a day (still, despite technological advances). As for Thursday's sale, quite a few lots were self eliminating due to not knowing what I was bidding on. Sloppy cataloguing in recent times means trust nothing written unless you can verify it yourself, with various examples of incorrect descriptions and provenances that simply aren't true. All they had to do was consult the catalogues in question, look at the images and save writing bs. They are not alone.

agree, especially they are going to have more profit through higher hammered price if decent photos are provided. I believe most of the potential buyers will stay away from these no pic lots or just place a much more prudence bids.

I'd be a bit more than chaffed if it was my consignment and they neglected to fulfill their obligation to sell at the best possible price with decent images.

Henry VI Pinecone-Mascle halfpenny of Calais. 1431-2

All this is just my understanding... I'm not a tax expert or a financial advisor. Ebay have a reporting threshold if £1740 per year https://www.ebay.co.uk/help/account/regulatory/sales-reporting/uk-digital-sales-reporting?id=5454, which I guess might trigger HMRC to check whether that is from trading or not. I think HMRC use this "badges of trade" system to assess whether someone is trading https://www.gov.uk/hmrc-internal-manuals/business-income-manual/bim20205 If you are trading, then I suppose you'd be taxed like a small business (I don't know much about that). If you're not trading then there is still capital gains tax (from disposing of possessions), but I think almost all coins would be exempt De-monetised coins count as chattels, so they are only chargeable if they sell for more than £6000 (per coin, or set). I'm OK... 😀 Foreign currency (that is legal tender in that country) is chargeable... so foreign bullion could get you over the annual allowance. Modern sterling is exempt anyway. (explained in https://www.gov.uk/hmrc-internal-manuals/capital-gains-manual/cg78305) That's it for tax. Eb*y are introducing buyers fees from next month... so that will affect the viability of using it. From what I've read on other forums, I'm more worried about avoiding all the scams that people try 😟 I haven't sold on there for years, and everything is putting me right off.

From the size, it's a penny or halfpenny H. Groats are larger and a very different design. Edward. The reverse reads VIL /<>LA/CAL/ISI so Calais. The diamond between the Ls (<>) helps identify it further but not my area I'm afraid.

That is just crazy, isn’t it! What a farce! The coins I’m interested in would be very popular if bidders could browse the images in good time…it really isn’t good enough to put the pictures up in the final hours of the sale.

I would agree that there seems to be a lot of metal there. @fluffy998 if you can weigh it we could compare to an unadulterated halfpenny. I still can't work out what it was done for. It looks like a wheel for some toy, but then you would expect and axle hole in the centre.