Rob

Likely nothing suspicious. When you have a reduced listing fee weekend, you take down the most expensive items, or those with only a day or two to go, and then relist to keep the fees down. Can save a fortune.

Do not cease hostilities or cede an inch to Russia as it would give them a breathing space. Your perceived weakness will result in them resuming their expansion when they have had time to regroup. They need to be forced out and the west needs to support them in this. By all means set up a demilitarised zone once ejected which could be run by the UN if necessary, but do not give them a territorial gain as a reward for invading. A wide enough buffer zone would give them something that potentially removes any NATO troops from the Ukrainian border, and also means that Russia couldn't sit on Ukraine's border, waiting to invade. Russia would likely never accept this as it would interfere with their centuries old habit of invading their neighbours. It's what they do best. Russia has killed many millions of Ukrainians in the past simply for being Ukrainian and would do so again given they look down on anybody from outside of Moscow/St. Petersburg. Do not encourage them in doing a rerun by handing over people who don't want to be part of Russia. When Russia is taking children as 'orphans' and resettling them by adoption with Russian families, it isn't because many of them didn't have parents. Russia's biggest problem is demographics, and continuing the conflict is exacerbating this. Every generation they have a cull of young males due entirely to their empire building. Maybe only 15000 in Afghanistan over 10 years, but Ukraine with 10x that number to date has set them back at least a generation in development. Russia is a cancer on humanity and hopefully will implode and break up at the end of all this.

One illustrated in a publication. This coin in this case.

A reminder that Huddersfield is on again this Sunday.

What's wrong with people. It's not even as good as the Spink plate coin, and that only cost 34K last time out with a handful of bidders.

Like the guy who took exception when I suggested they were collecting opinions. Was it MS65 1967 pennies? Whatever, really rare because only a handful had been slabbed in such exalted grade. Thus proving that most people still retain their marbles.

Come the expected world food shortage, this should have value when we're growing our own.

Portrait is fairly flat, which is typical. Is there any trace of solder from a suspension mount on either side or the edge? Spink ticket and price suggests it will probably be in the Circular, but when? I'd have to plough through them to find out. I can't see any case for it being a touchpiece, as these were typically angels - the combination of saint and king provided the cure and/or protection . The milled Charles II touchpieces were produced later than this coin FWIW, this is my 3rd issue shilling. Again, flat in parts, though the portrait is above average.

Some die pairs are rare, but in terms of common, over half the 1551s use obverse A, which given there are 9 obverse dies across both marks seems disproportionate. No idea if the catalogue is online, as I always use my own copy. Must get around to doing a census of these at some point as I want either a crown or halfcrown to tick the y initial mark box.

You need to refer to the Lingford catalogue, where all the legend varieties described by him are listed (13 obverse and 20 reverse varieties). The top one is 1552 obv.A and the second was not listed by him, though the obverse configuration with just a colon before the tun does appear in 1553 as his 1553 obv.B, so is likely a late die. I haven't compiled an exhaustive database of images for these, so can't say how rare the bottom one is, but don't have any examples to date. I wouldn't lose any sleep over the lack of stop - it's just another die (even if not recorded by Lingford), and probably specific to just this one.

That's two in a short period of time. I bought the 8+J in the CCA/Nantwich auction at the end of November. It was described as 8+I (also described as such on the accompanying envelope) but obviously wasn't. I paid just under £45 for it. I'm looking for a 8+I, 9+K and 12+L if anyone has anything available, as long as it's not a washer.

And another one. https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1626272395819450369 Just waiting for Prigozhin. Hope springs eternal.

That's ridiculous. Any celebrity wearing that would need to arrive by chauffeured lorry.

Stabbed with a knife point to check that it is silver and not silver plated. The preferred Scandinavian method of checking for dodgy silver. It was used in the Baltic area long after the cessation of Danegeld payments. eg. one of my William II coins also has this. The TPGs are inconsistent in this method of rejection, frequently passing peck marked coins while rejecting others as damaged - it doesn't seem to rely on the quantity of peck marks! Pay no attention to the label, as it was a normal occurrence at the time.

I concur, it looks like the same coin. He could have used a few more pixels though - they don't cost that much.

Is it even the same coin? There's crud around the L which isn't in Zo Arms' image and a dig in the upright, not in the seller's picture which also has a small protrusion at the top of the F upright . I would say someone is being less than honest.

Well, you must live in a small world as there's 48 in the UK for a start, unless you don't consider us in Europe. As for the rest of Europe, I guess 26 in the Irish Republic, as non-English speaking countries will use a different word.

Mike Veissid (dealer)

Richard Groves (dealer)

I think it should be zero VAT. The main thing is that it is recorded as investment gold on the import paperwork.

There's no VAT on investment gold. It depends on what the coin is. I think investment gold goes back to the introduction of the sovereign in 1817. If you look at past catalogues, then these onwards have a g against the lot indicating they are investment gold, but up to the end of the 18th century it may well apply at the 5% rate.

Is part of the problem terrestrial vs satellite signal transmission?

Jon Mann collection ticket (as opposed to dealer)

Same old, same old.... A French newspaper cartoon from 1854. Not much has changed.