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What Rob said ....

Or a Buy-it-Now offer he couldn't resist...

Well, the date used to be under the head - if it's gone, it's gone!

Very good question! Some get included, some don't. It's all down to who compiles the literature. This one has been in all the books for years, so it's widely recognised as a variety, when strictly speaking, it ain't.

That's the thing with that one, Vlad. It is a die fill, so it's progressive. You'll be able to find all stages of the fill right from not filled at all to completely invisible and everything in between.

Hard to tell from your photo, Scott. Here's a W.W that I sold recently if it's any help...

...and yet I had a BU '57 calm sea a few months back but it flew out of my Shop like it had wings. I think it lasted less than a day. It went to Canada, where someone obviously collects them! And Rob does, of course. And I do, but then I collect everything.

Another new collector! This is good... For all our scoffing at the Royal Mints tactics, it does seem to be working you know...

ooh, Lot 1837. That's a far better pic than the one in their glossy...

Good for you, Matt! Took me bloody years to get to the Midland.

Best thing to do with the casual collecting of older coins, is to try and put some date runs together starting at 1967 and working backwards. That way it won't get too serious too quickly, as it might if you started collecting by type. You'll soon find out which dates are the tricky ones, and working like that you'll e able to be very choosy as far as grade is concerned, which I wish I'd done right from the start - would have saved me years of repetitive upgrading! Decimal stuff - no idea! Someone here will though...

Yes I have, Colin! The shop is the only part that is even close to ready though. It tends to be squeezed in right at the end of the day when I have done everything else...

They can't argue with you Rob, really! Proof buyers buy for the perfection of it all...

Very nice, Brandon. Nice to see coins that are coin-coloured too!

...superb

It is good yes - it looks like a PrestaShop template - have a look at Colin Goode's header on his site and you'll see the parallels. My prototype shop uses it too, but you mustn't look yet because it's not really ready...

My Desktop is always ridiculously busy.... just now: 2 Explorer windows : coin photos folder and coin literature folder Chrome with 11 open tabs: - BBC Weather (so I can see if I can skive gardening this morning) - Gmail inbox - Twitter - My website's backoffice - Predecimal unread posts - This conversation - the interesting JNCoins 1860 penny conversation - thesaleroom.com - PayPal - eBay - and I'm keeping an eye on Kharkov in the Ukraine, because I'm not entirely one-dimensional! 2 Excel spreadsheets Firefox with 4 open tabs - my snipe engine - my Watch List - Ending Soonest - Tony Clayton (if you use two browsers, eBay doesn't notice that you're signed in as two IDs on the same computer, so I can be a seller on Chrome, and be logged in under my buying ID in FireFox) 2 test files in Notepad - eBay blacklist - some HTML I'm working on Turbo Lister Adobe Reader with Bramah in it. and that's a fairly quiet start to the morning!

Sorry Peck! I always have an eBay tab open anyway, so I kind of assumed everyone works like me. Not the case, of course. For me it would be: 1. move mouse to beginning of eBay item number, drag through to end and then click Ctrl-C to copy 2. switch to ebay tab that is already there 3. click in eBay Search field, then key Ctrl-V to paste eBay item number and hit Enter

can you not Copy and Paste, Peck?

Welcome aboard Arthur! I have no idea about the Straits coin - unless it is a serious rarity then grade probably consigns it to curiosity value. Somebody here will know though! The 1864 is a good date, but it's one of those dates that is relatively common in your grade, but becomes one of the most difficult Bun Heads of all in higher grades. The gradient of scarcity (and thus of value) is steeper for the 1864 than for most dates in the series. Incidentally, the 1864 comes in two flavours, the Upper Serif (referring to the shape of the 4), and Crosslet 4 varieties. Yours is the former, and is slightly commoner than the crosslet. I expect you'd be disappointed with what they'd fetch - have a quick look at Completed Listings on ebay.co.uk and you'll get the picture. Keep 'em, I'd say.

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Somebody watching us, watching them, then...

You can't keep both! That goes against all the rules, blimey, whatever next. At that rate people will be collecting whatever they like, not what they have to get.... ...it'll be anarchy

Absolutely, Garrett! I use an average of 4: CCGB, BCMV, CYB, and Spink (everyone OK with those acronyms?), then chuck my own sales records in for good measure. Quite often all the books are miles out from what I think I could reasonably get for a coin. Any eBay coinie who has been playing this silly game for a while now would no doubt say the same.

Given that the name is predecimal.com you don't need to be Sherlock Ho Um. Whoops