Rob

I've got two or three here in stock. I need to buy other things.

If they are copies, he must surely be using someone else's pictures. A group of genuine coins might possibly contain examples of complete and broken E coins, but copies would be all from the same batch, i.e. full or broken E, but highly unlikely both. It might be worth buying a second example to compare. If genuine, £50 is a steal. If not you can get your money back.

Looking at the previous sales, the earlier picture had a complete E in DEI, whilst the one currrently on offer has the broken E. It could be a genuine small group that he has acquired. Other bulk groups of mint state same date coins have come to light in recent years. 1825 and 1890 farthings for example, or the group of 50 1905 sixpences.

With a buy it now price of £50 it has to be wrong. Whether you know anything about coins or not, a simple search will show things in that condition selling for a couple hundred.

Quite possibly a literal stock photograph

The colour looks too uniform for my liking. Even with a full lustre coin you see some variation in the toning. It ought to be 175 years old, after all. Having said that, it is the commonest date. Question is, are the marks the same on all coins?

I think it is a case of one (or both) being off-centre. Need a larger statistically significant sample size to confirm. The gap from the crown to the letter looks to be the same and the rim on one is not cleanly struck.

Thanks. That's answered a big question. Database can now be expanded - a lot.

Thanks Nick. Any expansion on what I have to do? If not, this will be an ongoing job for willing volunteers.

How do you save images such as those on Baldwin's where there is a magnified image when you hover over it, but no right click save as etc? Thanks. http://www.baldwin.co.uk/coins/great-britain/halfgroats/charles-i-silver-half-groat-worcester-mint-crowned-bust-left-value-behind-initial-mark-lis-both-sides-rev-oval-quartered-shield-of-arms-in-scrolled-frame-beaded-circle-surrounding-with-legend-0-82g-z62912.html?usrc=1

Only one of me is. The other is quite normal.

Silly estimate on the 1667/4 halfcrown - £12-14K. Colin offered me that for £1600 before he consigned his collection which contained the better of his two for sale later in the year, but I couldn't bring myself to buy it given the condition. John (argentum) bought it for £2100 in Spink's March 2005 sale. 12 years, 12K increase in value? Surely not. Someone's having a laugh.

Before they were on a link. Now the pictures show automatically. No link to click - maybe a sign in problem?

They are obviously different dies, but all conform to type. What is your concern?

Do you mean either of this? Only one picture.

Thanks. I think that's it, but I didn't hit the boxes at the top. Don't know why? Presumably it's a case of hitting two keys at once.

Help!! I've hit something and don't know what. Not looking good. Trying to write a document in word, but now it puts a line through changes and highlights in red and it puts a vertical line by the side. I can't get rid of it, nor do a copy and paste to show a picture. How do I get rid of it without discarding the whole document and losing pages of data If I can't get rid I've just wasted 4 hours. It also came up with lots of red boxes and horizontal lines if that helps. Everything I write is now in red, despite changing the colour to black - to no avail. Thanks.

Oh good. Mine's a pint. I smell a pub on the green.

Not for the first time I can't help due to technical issues. Is there any way of not using Photobucket? All I see is a blank screen when you post using a link.

We seem to be nearing the final destination, so common to many forums - the obligatory spat where one comment invariably finds an offendee and is returned with interest. Never happens at coin club meetings where people are face to face Please mention Hitler sooner rather than later so that we can move on. Thank you.

I believe it was my picture they used from the first page. I'll get my lawyers on the case. And yes, I do have an example..... that one.

If you have a lot of spare trays then make your own cabinet. That's what my son did for me. Killed two birds with one stone. It did something with the pile of trays that were always being moved and dumped somewhere else, and from his perspective solved the perennial problem of what to give me for Christmas. It has been posted before, but here it is again. For anyone thinking of carving the front panel of a hardwood cabinet, I have been assured that it seemed like a good idea at the time.

Yep. It's a no-brainer for a TPG.

Yes, but at least he/she can sleep safe and sound now in the knowledge that the US Mint is producing genuine coins and not copies.

Ah, thanks. Given the herd mentality of social media, I thought it was the in vogue or politically correct method of addressing people.