Rob

It's a mule between a left facing bust die and a right facing die. What's wrong with that? 7 or $800 all in for a coin worth a fiver seems a heavy price to pay for relying on the TPG. Only question is, will it be returned as a wrong un? Check the September catalogue to find out.

Doubt it. They didn't do piedforts until they started striking in silver. It should be just a regular proof

We have more progress. My son has configured something so that the DNS? is now pointing to BT and Google whatever that means. Something about the BT IP blocking some sites, which in this case he thought it might be conflicting with 'The Goldbergs' - something about stopping piracy, though why anyone would want to pirate that or worse still watch it is beyond me. Good news is that I can now log in and place bids. Thanks to all for putting up with my stupid questions.

Still can't see any Bid Live link. Anyone familiar with it. When I was last able to bid nearly 2 years ago, I vaguely recall there was a live bid link - can't find it. Also, although the auctions and account have drop down menus, alll the other tabs on the top just say page not found, so I suspect we aren't out of the woods yet. God I'm depressed.

PROGRESS!!!! My son has downloaded Chrome to add to the confusion (3 search engines ). However, using images.goldbergauctions.com/php/auctions.php now brings up the catalogue. Somewhat disconcertingly, he also ran some program called CC Cleaner which has removed about 7Gb of files, so God knows what won't work now. I know I had to log in to this forum for a start, whereas it usually works automatically ok. Bloody technology. Still doesn't work with www.goldbergcoins.com though

10am is the ancients. World Coins and minors doesn't start until 2pm Pacific time. i.e. 10pm.

Yep. That's 10pm UK time, but the British are 300 lots in. No idea what that is in Oz time

That and others.

Thanks. Nothing is too basic at my level of understanding. Not sure how to do the above, so I'll ask my son to get Chrome and disable Firefox and do anything else that might help.

Good, so I'm not the only one. It isn't just not being able to log on that is my problem. My computer can't find www.goldbergcoins.com. i.e the website. I wish it was as simple as a login problem as they would probably be more helpful. Thankfully, Goldbergs is the only auction site this has happened - which also suggests it isn't necesarily my computer. Question for anybody. To eliminate my computer, is it possible for a computer to block access to a site and give the site not found page? I would expect a message saying access denied rather than can't find site, should this be the case. I'm also using Firefox, which I have had for a long time and has worked in the past.

4 months on and nothing's changed. Why, why, why, why, why? The unhelpful oppo at the other end just said it works for everyone else, so must be your fault. Type in www.goldbergcoins.com/view-auctions/sales and it allegedly gets me to their auction. Great. I can't access the site or even the home page, let alone bid. Another unhelpful business model which doesn't appreciate custom. Good job there are plenty of alternative places to spend your money. Pity though, given there's a Benediction hand Ethelred penny in the sale.

I didn't think Microsoft supported Windows at all, even though it's their product. A few years ago I phoned them up and they said I had to talk to Currys. However competent he was, I think it is highly unlikely that a spotty 17 year old kid will know Windows better than a Microsoft support person - or maybe as a private individual I wasn't worth talking to.

that's got to be shilled

Oops. Forgot that. Much easier to find nice hammered than milled. Problem corrected. Don't see above. If you get my drift.

And the seriously heavily toned Peck R44 halfpenny reverse.

And the reverse.

Apologies. Normal service restored. 1817 shilling with I/S in HONI

Oops. Forgot that. Much easier to find nice hammered than milled.

You can only deal with a very small portion of a collection at any one time, so the question of it being in a bank vault is not a major problem. You might want to look at a small group, but it is difficult to imagine a study that would require hundreds of coins in hand at the same time. Coins are bought individually and are best viewed as a single object. Two coins side by side invariably leads you to say one is better than the other, whereas in many respects they will still be equal. Not all coins are available in identical grade, toning, or shape, but all were purchased on their individual merits.

Ditto

Ditto

Comparatively common. They rarely get over 2K

Ditto.

Faulty operative. Post corrected to comply.

It could just as easily be a short flaw joining the extremities of the F arms given the width of the 'P' loop is not full size.