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  1. Rob

    Trump v Clinton

    No, the easier going bits of the traditional divide get on quite well really. Having said that, the extremes of right and left could have given this lot a run for their money. The bit that confounds is the presence of very rich lefties, and poor people who vote for the right.
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    Next York coin fair?

    3rd Friday and Saturday in January and July
  3. That presumably is the dilemma for all users. Once tied to one or the other, you have a load of unusable files if you try to change. Plus, I'm not sure I would be popular if I printed all the things I would want to keep - it's bad enough printing out all the ledgers for the year end.
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    1922 coin ???

    Possibly, we'll never know, but the paper is right and the coin is mint state, so if not genuine, then someone has gone to the trouble of wrecking a newspaper from 1705 just to wrap it in. Christmas present?
  5. Rob

    1922 coin ???

    That's what it was found wrapped in
  6. Rob

    1922 coin ???

    You mean like this one? http://www.petitioncrown.com/Queen_Anne_1705_Crown.html
  7. Rob

    Trump v Clinton

    From this side of the pond the contest appears rather unedifying. I would have thought there were more important issues in the world than two contenders bent on mud slinging. Fiddles, fires and Rome spring to mind. Trouble is, nothing gets done unless the President is the same colour as Congress and the Senate, but if they were of the same political persuasion, the thought of the potential havoc they could wreak is equally worrying. Neither of our countries benefit from our politicians.
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    Ebay's Worst Offerings

    He could probably help himself by believing what he says. If a much better example than one which sold for £2K through LCA, then surely doing this should realise a higher price still? Added to that, by going through an auction house he would bypass much of the suspicion associated with eBay, whereby you assume that someone is trying to rip you off. Particularly appropriate given his historical baggage. Furthermore, the statement that it can only go up in price when inflation is somewhere close to zero should mean a hold if he believes what he says. Or perhaps it's just all b*****ks.
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    Helping hand

    Someone heavily into coins not wanting to mention them or be associated with them? Weird
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    Helping hand

    So he doesn't want us to put people off buying the things they would never dream of buying in the first place? This forum will have zero impact on sales. For us it's just a case of thank you, but no thank you. The numerous discussions elsewhere (mostly US) however, suggest a different story. Talking of Henries, I bought a Henry last weekend - and it wasn't a vacuum cleaner.
  11. Rob

    Helping hand

    Agreed, but there are far more concerned parties elsewhere than on this forum about the vendor in question Our thread is irrelevant as nobody is going to get here using Google as their preferred route. I just googled the company and didn't include coins.
  12. Rob

    Helping hand

    Don't wory about it Nordle. This forum doesn't appear on the first 10 pages of a Google search, so there can be no issue with it affecting their business (as you would expect from a forum such as this) and if no rules are broken then it's legit. The links on the first 10 are mostly the preserve of a large number of 'discussions'. Maybe Henry should have a chat with Google.
  13. Rob

    My Latest Acquisition

    Minor marks in the field, but realistically quite minimal compared to what could be there. Better date than 1887 as well. Looks good to me.
  14. Rob

    Helping hand

    It comes up as the sixth link after you've ignored the ad at the top on Google. Here we go https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=rosland+capital&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b&gfe_rd=cr&ei=vU0bWOytLO7R8geG3Z9Y Irrespective of which side of the debate you are on, it is important to hear all sides. Whilst people on here are mostly seasoned collectors, not everybody is. That's why it is necessary to highlight both and bad. I get one or two calls a month on average from people with things they wish they hadn't bought - mostly small sums thankfully, but a few people have been taken for a ride big time. The best recommendation is always word of mouth. Expensive advertising will be incorporated in the price of the thing you buy. The value of highlighting the pitfalls? As much as you were prepared to spend less intrinsic value.
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    Brexit and money talk

    At least this is a little more open minded than the German politician who said that putting the question of EU membership was far too complicated for the public to understand and that these decisions should be made on their behalf. It might be appropriate to remind all politicians in democratic countries that they are taken from the same pool of people they deem to be too thick to make important decisions..................... maybe that's why we get the politicians we do. As has been said before, a few from the far right would always vote to kick foreigners out, even if it came from the Labour party. Most people who viewed immigration as a significant issue wanted to see it controlled, not stopped or reversed. That incidentally included a significant number of those who would fall foul of a mass ejection. Anyway, this country rightly has a proud history of assimilating foreigners for whatever reason, the only difference being that previously we have been in control of our borders. I believe the last large influx under those circumstances were the Ugandan Asians.
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    Brexit and money talk

    Too damned right. What is the point of having a referendum if our elected MPs don't abide by the vote of the electorate. Parliament could have had a sensible debate on whether we should stay or leave before the vote and actively campaigned by putting forward the arguments in a meaningful way, but instead chose to play their silly games while the rest of the country had many rational discussions and formulated an opinion based on what emanates from the Commission and the indifference paid to ALL the European electorate. If they didn't consider themselves above accountability and stuck to the original terms of entry they could have had at least two-thirds of the country behind them. However disorganised it is, UKIP is going to do very well at the next election if the arrogant t**ts at Westminster block article 50.
  17. Rob

    New 5 pound note

    So if you know they are only worth £5, why don't you just put them on at a price sufficient to cover your fees and costs and see where they go? Any premium is unjustifible for a bog standard note, so anything received above face plus costs is a winner. No need to be greedy, so if it doesn't sell it has cost you nothing. Just stick a bit of food into the pond and watch the feeding frenzy. eBay is THE place to go for a large pool of mindless buyers intent on paying huge premiums for 'collectibles' they are unlikely ever to recoup. They might go up in value eventually once obsolete, but I wouldn't recommend buying them with that in mind.
  18. Rob

    New 5 pound note

    I get numerous daily calls asking how much the new £5 notes are worth. I don't understand why people don't get it. There are a million AK47s out there, not to mention a million AK46s and AK48s, a million AA01s, a million AA02s etc. With the exception of the first run, there is absolutely no reason for any premium unless they are errors. I had one guy phone who said he had been offered £200 for an AK47 ending in 007. I asked him why he didn't take it and replied he didn't want to get ripped off!!!!! I suggested putting it on ebay and if he got £5.01 or more he was quids in. Sorry, I have better things to do.
  19. Rob

    Ebay's Worst Offerings

    Does it automatically do so or is there an additional charge for inclusion on foreign ebay sites? I thought there used to be an added cost for worldwide exposure. Plus, ebay doesn't default to worldwide searches, so you only see national listings.
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    Ebay's Worst Offerings

    The first on the list is a seller with a feedback of 13 compared to the different seller with 13000 on the last two, and has different contact details. Could be that's his private address because one is in Boulogne, and the other in Lille, or maybe the business is re-locating, or maybe a disgruntled employee. Second is priced in £, the third in $. The coin itself looks ok though at first glance, albeit with a couple ugly marks on the neck.
  21. Rob

    Brexit and money talk

    I would question the sanity of anyone who feels the need to spend £1-3K on a computer just because it's an Apple product. My last one cost me about £500. Leaving aside the Brexit argument, consumer goods allegedly exhibit falling price trends, not exponentially expanding ones. At the end of the day it is just a computer.
  22. Surely this would be madness on the part of the saleroom, not to mention illegal as it would amount to deliberate misrepresentation of a lot they were selling. A VIGO 5 guineas would sell irrespective of the source (unless it was nicked). The Mail is a different story however as they can only push sales by publishing hyperbole. Accuracy of report has never been their (or other tabloids') strong point.
  23. Rob

    Brexit and money talk

    Political union is not going to happen. Tell the French they can't be French any more, or ditto the Italians or Greeks. Given that is not a possibility, the only other alternative is for the Commission to go backwards - something it has never done because that would require an admission that something had gone wrong. Better the whole thing fails for them than a rational decision based on the reality. The trouble is, many Europeans really believe it could work. When we picked up our wine this summer, the winzer couldn't understand why we voted to leave. Their comprehension was that everything was about immigration and why was that Europe's fault? They couldn't seem to get their heads around the fact that many people here resented the unaccountability of the Commission and that all people wanted was control of their borders, not to kick all the foreigners out. They didn't understand that we joined Europe for trade, not to create a super-state. They couldn't understand why I was happy at having a meaningful vote for the first time in 41 years. It's very easy to accept the status quo when you are not under any particular economic pressure. Ask the Greeks or any other country that hasn't made any attempt at reform. A single currency and a single EU wide interest rate require a single, united political framework, Europe-wide taxation and that national interests be rendered irrelevant. Ain't gonna happen.
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    Brexit and money talk

    This has been said from the outset. Currency union without political control can never work as a permanent solution because the politicians are always going to play to the people who vote for them, not the unaccountable people who tell you to use this or that currency, set your rules and dictate policy going forward. It should have been blindingly obvious to the whole of Europe that unrelievable tensions are the result of tying a country's economy to a fixed rate of exchange following the situation in 1992 after this country had to leave the ERM, or maybe they just put their heads in the sand and said that we fell out the ERM because we weren't good enough Europeans. It is only slightly different now. The main one being that there is absolutely no flexibility in the system following the removal of the ability to set independent interest rates according to the various national requirements and (probably more importantly), take steps to adjust your economy by strengthening/weakening the currency. Germany needs to strengthen the rate, most of the rest of Europe needs it to weaken. Impotence rules.
  25. Rob

    bad hair day?

    One group was headed up valley from the fishpond below Phillips park towards the motorway roundabout. They could use the bridge over to the rugby club. By the time they get to the school it isn't a million miles away
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