Peter

1978 was a great year for me.I lost my virginity and super Ipswich won the FA cup.I also had my 1st motorbike and a 1717 farthing.

Geoff The more the merrier. I like fossils,cars,bikes and well anything.

I would give you £10 for that.

Just let a small fart out. The sprouts should assist.

OK I have known for a while due to my age that State pension will not be paid to me until I'm 68. (So where are the people protesting at the 3 years of swindling going on?) At present rates it is costing me about 16K. I'm type 2 diabetic,I no longer drink alcohol or smoke a Cuban apart from special occasions. Since being self employed over 100k in corp tax paid in 8 years. Mrs Peter has recently lost her pin money job so I suggested Job seekers allowance....not available. So if I stop trying to work it will be nil £ plus we are not insured...nil £. Rant over.There are loads more issues. bah humbag. I will just get back to my coins.

I hope it does because my face is like a smacked arse.

Brilliant. My little face will be pressed up at the window.

and directly from your site Clive. I will be back.

It is just some of the sellers I exclude from searches. I mean I don't want to look at sellers who deal in modern tat. Of course I have had some goodies from Ebay

I'm pleased a compromise has been reached or appears to have been. Over the years of watching Ebay I'm not interested in items for sale.

Chris A typical example of promoting you http://www.coincommunity.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=165615

Now re listed at £99 BIN. I do respect the seller. Caveat emptor.

I would avoid the seller.Long time Ebay t** on my avoid list. Cleaned and spoilt but....Ummmm....I just wouldn't want it. You've paid top money it would be worthless to a dealer(apart from ebay). Move it on and get a proper one.

Long way to go. However if PCGS opened an office next door their letter box would not be rattled by me.....unless all my coins weren't real and I suddenly lost the will to live with not being able to grade them. .

I often recommend your books.I don't really tart you....well maybe on Cow fancier monthly

eBay gum (sic). That does not inspire confidence. Maybe they need to pass eBay chatline support to a suitably qualified linguist? Now that would be a cunning plan

Chris has his feet up in front of the fire. (I have been tarting you on other forums ) I'm looking forward to it. It is one of the few books I always have at hand when surfing Ebay.

Bill chairs their meetings. nuff said. I did enjoy his input but the UK market isn't ready for the US method / type of collectors. Likewise the average UK collector isn't dumb and go slobbering after a slabbed 2013 coin. Great if you want a Northumberland shilling/gothic crown slabbed but they can bugger off on my farthings/early cu of which I'm confident on being a better expert than they will ever be.

I thought I would start a thread on protection and the like. I have many coin books which in their own right take pride of place in my collection. Peck,Montague,Bramah,ESC,Freeman,..............et al They all need a bit of love and care. Here is the Pikey bit (I won't suggest names but buses and boats spring to mind ) I have been doing a fair bit of building work on Peter Estate's and noticed at Wickes fabulous thick polythene bags (used for split cement bags ETC) A bit of the smooth tounged Peter and I left with several of these bad boys. Mrs Peter has then trimmed these and covered my books in a high grade polythene. I suppose you could also do your Jazz mags

just a bit of one!I'm glad I'm not alone then! They'll never be worth more than face, not even in my son's lifetime I shouldn't think? I have a large padded envelope where I store my decimal keepers.I think I may get a larger one so I can climb in too. I really have no interest in decimals but I have a complete set of the Olympic 50p's. It is frightening that decimals have been around for over 40 years...should I be storing mint bags of 70's decimals?

They were openly on sale in the East End in the early 90's

Stuart you are just a Liz tart I do confess to putting BU decimals away.Our local PO often gets bags of earlier decimals and they put a few aside for me. I think Chris will have to market his book minus the pre. I can't see how Spink can do a better job.(or could Chris do it for them?) I was hoping Spink would split the book hammered/milled.

Welcome to the forum! Santa managed to bring me Spink 2014, so I've had lots to read. A number of changes in presentation this year and the promise of 2 volumes next year. A few day's break before the New Year festivities now I got my copy as well How is the book going to be split...hammered/milled? If CCGB can eventually cover milled it will be interesting.

Excellent news Chris. I think you have it right with varieties. Covering George 111 seems a great idea...maybe George 11 in 2015

Well done Richard You're job is a vocation. I hope you get some Charlie orientated stuff.