Rob

Hi. Welcome. All of the above books would be suitable. Depending on the degree of specialisation and the proposed time period you want to cover, you will prefer some publications over others, but mostly they will complement each other. As regards auction catalogues, the list is endless. If you intend sticking to halfcrowns, then Adams is the most comprehensive collection compiled to date with a few smaller sales to back this up. If you intend collecting both hammered and milled halfcrowns you have over a century's worth to build a library from, so a short list would not do the question justice.

What do you mean? Looks just as if it was made yesterday.

In all probability, I'd grade that as some as struck modern tat.

OK, you're forgiven, some of us were a bit late to the party. These amended things crop up from time to time - a bit like the Ethelred 12th coin that looked distinctly like a Charles I shilling 2 or 3 years ago.

George II halfpennies and farthings are notorious for blocked dies. They used them until there was virtually no relief remaining. It is not a case of soft striking imo as you often see a well struck side paired with a weak other side. e.g, here are two examples of the 1738 V/S in GEORGIVS obverse die. Nicholson's is on the left, my current example on the right. There is only one die, so any wear or die fill confirms the chronological order in which individual examples were struck. The case for die fill is helped by the profile of the weak areas in the head, which are concave on the coin (and not flat, thus eliminating wear). The Nicholson coin which is the earlier example, has more wear, so allow for this. Apart from the hair detail, the Nicholson coin is also marginally stronger in the legend.

But he does say 1882 penny with H........... Sorry, looks like a bad case of reading what you want to see.

I concur An early Royal Mint trial using steel (not cupro-nickel as listed in the Adams sale) with cancellation cuts as seen.

It's ok. The coin is in Spain - he has probably tried to compensate for the curvature of the earth.

2/8d just before the war was about right.

Interesting how he has said a 1658 coin is dated between 1662 and 1816. The Chinese must have been busy earlier than was previously thought.

I wanted to find the Goldberg's Live bidding page, but couldn't do so. Any way in would have been acceptable but it was not to be.

Virtual drinking?

Why on earth would anyone, however passionate about slabbing, want to waste money having that graded? The only rarity value it has is that thankfully there are very few in such bad condition. This also begs the question why it wasn't given the minimum possible grade (the apposite - poor 1) on account of the lack of detail. It must be very difficult to decide when to give the lowest possible grade as there is precious little to go on when deciding the reason for the lack of detail.

Oh, I don't read the descriptions, just look at the picture to give me a better idea what's on offer.

I had the BT person check all the settings and he also tried with IE, but that gave the same results.

A guinea weight at £50 is not too far off the mark.

Hello stranger.

ok. though it has been like this for a year or more, which seems a bit long for someone else not to flag up the same problem. I can't be the only person using their server. I'll try to find someone in the morning. Thanks.

Server: BThomehub.home Address: 192.168.1.254 DNS request timed out. timeout was 2 seconds. Same again *** Request to BThomehub.home timed-out. If that makes sense.

Which means that the DNS lookup failed. The DNS server is provided by your ISP to translate names into IP addresses. Therefore it sounds like an IT issue at your ISP. Ok, ta. I doubt they will do anything other than check the line and say it's working ok though. This internet is p'ing me off a bit. It keeps stopping for a few minutes every hour or so and then restarts of its own accord - really frustrating. This can't be the same problem though as other websites work ok, such as this forum. I can't find any figures for what constitutes acceptable net down-time. If it was mine and not BT's, I'd say it is crap.

Not that

Ping request could not find host www.goldbergcoins.com. Please check the name and try again.

What IP address does your computer think is www.goldbergcoins.com? Run a command prompt (cmd.exe) and type 'ping www.goldbergcoins.com' (without quotes). My DNS gives me 209.222.0.237. That doesn't work. Just says it can't find it in different colours. Sorry, the website cmd.exe cannot be found.

I fired off an email to Goldbergs not expecting an answer because I assumed the website would not be found, yet they received the email and replied. Not too helpful because they assumed I was unable to log in. I would dearly like to be in that sub-optimal position. I suppose the question is how can a website recognise you are emailing, yet hide away if you try to access it? Is there anything I could do at this end to help the Goldberg site recognise me?

Nope, that gives the same message as all the other links to goldbergs I have tried, i.e. can't find the server. Rob, Try www.sixbid.com That should take you there. Sixbid did show the sale as the top item on the auction list, but using the link at the top of the page to Goldbergs just gives the default response of can't find the server. You can't bid live on Sixbid.