Rob

Precisely -- although Aethelred II rather than Edward. Looks more like a base styca from the thumbnail. Sorry, I read the reverse as PACX and didn't look at the bust. The powers of suggestion as I was looking at the Sandwich in DNW.

Sorry, Rob. I'm sure Mr Stocks will gladly provide full details of the coin if requested, he's probably found a die match in the Copenhagen collection! He's b****y disingenuous though. Small flan type (genuine class), irrespective of the fact that the legend is missing. c700 AD, barely into the sceats at this point. Why didn't he call it a thrymsa? It could have sold for 10x the price of an EdC penny. Unless he's cut down a copy to eliminate the moneyer and mint - CHANG ON HONG KONG

Sorted via a very circuitous route. Create a new form as a word doc, scan it in to get a jpg, copy to a stick and transfer to another computer. Print off multiple copies. Still looks crap printed with a dot matrix, but at least I have 3 part copies. Ta everyone.

UNC is not so difficult, it's the without bagmarks as well that's the problem. I have one without bagmarks but not unc, and another unc, but with bagmarks.

"A finest collectors specimen" Words fail me. Clive, you've disappointed me. I thought you were going to identify the bust punch and hence the mint.

It isn't a simple case of wanting to be in or out on principle. Any change from the status quo is only worth implementing if it gives a clear tangible benefit over the existing situation. To pursue a goal for ideological reasons alone is not good enough as it only incurs unnecessary costs without providing a benefit. Nothing should be sacrosanct, but equally, nothing should be ruled out. This applies equally to the Scottish and European situations. Much of the damage incurred from being part of the EU is irreversible. Industries at a national level have been destroyed across the Union because of excess capacity, imposed quotas from the EU and the global economy. The global economy is a much more brutal marketplace than the EU, which Brussels has attempted to protect by effectively protecting the larger players in certain industries at the expense of the peripheral ones. So we have the financial markets in this country, cars in Germany and 20 years ago shipbuilding in France and Germany. The fallout from this is that national politicians feel powerless to reject the Brussels edicts because they would lose 'financial assistance' from the central body. They have effectively acted as united state without the political union. As nothing has materialised so far to have a politically united Europe, you are left with countries that have lost indigenous industries and the manufacturing base that accompanies it. The main exception to the rule is France which has unilaterally declared 50 or 60 major players to be protected from foreign interference as they are too important to France. France, not the EU that is. Credit to them for sticking up for their own, even if the EU is not happy because imposed limits on government spending will not be met. Therein lies the rub. You either have to go the whole hog and have political union or reduce the power of the central body to permit the national governments to stick up for their own. What we have is a half way house which in general doesn't serve the man in the street particularly well. In the meantime the old chestnut of the CAP rumbles on. Subsidised farmers continue to receive nearly half of the EU budget, in certain parts of the EU providing an excellent means of laundering criminal income and being subsidised to do so to boot. The main recipient of these funds is France, whose inheritance laws mitigate against efficiency in the farming sector. If I was German I would be livid at the amount of money I had to pay to keep the rest of Europe underemployed. Germany is where it is because the national ethic is to work hard, do a good job, make things well (even if sometimes over-engineered) and generally live within their means. Much of Europe meanwhile lives in a dependency culture. If anyone wants to live a comfortable lifestyle, it requires an indigenous industrial base to produce everyday goods and for the citizens of those countries to buy home produced items, money which is spent thereby being recycled within the local economies. The global economy in this case is quite destructive as the main perceived benefit it has in reducing the cost of living has a knock on effect which means that the western economies have a workforce that has priced itself out of the market leading to no work and little industry. Efficiency is mainly to blame as we don't need a lot of people other than to act as consumers. All in all, the situation is ok(?) if things are rosy, a disaster if they go pear-shaped. People could do worse than buy locally produced goods by choice if the price differential is not too great. Without any numbers to hand, off the top of my head I would think that spending 5-10% more on a locally produced item would reasonably offset the cost of paying someone to sit on their backside watching TV and the repeats, and the repeats of repeats.

There are a few of us looking for that elusive non-proof quality piece. Silly as it may seem, you could easily see someone (experienced) paying 20 or 30 quid for a Churchill crown. Who would have thought that?

Thanks. Looks promising. I was experimenting trying to insert a table and doing the same thing. Have to see how it goes as this is all new territory for me. I tend to delegate anything computer related to the kids, but they are in short supply at the moment - spend their entire life asking you to do things for them, then when you need them they're otherwise indisposed.

Good idea, though I'd have to draw another form because I've used them all up. Hopefully the XP computer will cope with the scanner. Thanks Bob. Like Azda and most others, I like the word free too.

Have to rethink this. Apparently Word didn't come as standard with XP which is what my computer is running with the dot matrix printer. Might have to see if I can cobble something together using the Sage accounts program. Thanks for the help anyway.

No it is simpler than that. I need to make some service reports for when I do a repair job on the non-coins side of life. The details will be hand written as I do the job, so it just needs to be a load of boxes of varying size joined together, all printed on 3 part copy paper. So boxes for customer name and address, date, hours worked, parts used, description of work done etc. I've got a box of blank 3 part tractor feed paper and still use a dot matrix printer for my invoices. Just don't want to spend hundreds on a few thousand of these from a stationery printer. The info in the boxes doesn't need to be stored on computer as it is quite straightforward to remember what job was done when and the detail of the job. This is really only to record it should my memory fail me.

I don't know, but it certainly looks Anglo-Saxby... Is it just me or does anyone else think that unresearched on eBay usually means you wouldn't like the answer, or reality would draw you to a cheaper conclusion? This guy has yet again done his best to mislead. He has dated it to 700-800AD, i.e. dating it as a sceat to get around the problem of the missing legend. Given his feedback, he has seen enough to give an accurate description 99 times or more out of a 100, but needless to say has a remarkable ability to choose an expensive and inaccurate description wherever possible when the alternative would be to take a fair (low) price for the coin in question. He's a disgrace.

Thanks. This version doesn't appearf to come with forms and the macros bit is empty as well - was probably a cut down cheap version. I'll see if anyone round here knows what you mean. I thought Word was for writing letters or documents. Whatever, it isn't worth spending a huge amount of money on as the last print run of these forms lasted 26 years, hence the need for a cheap fix to last another 5 or 6.

One for Clive here from his favourite seller. Identify the mint. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/c-700-A-D-British-Found-Anglo-Saxon-England-Ar-Silver-Penny-Coin-Unresearched-VF-/141305958962?pt=UK_Coins_BritishHammered_RL&hash=item20e67dd232

I don't think the engraving is that bad, and I think its medallic character was probably a bit too revolutionary for the masses accustomed to the standard reverse designs seen on all circulation coinage. It's the 20 million copies that are the problem. Never having circulated, they have never been withdrawn, so every single one is still out there.

Ebay is not the place to list it period. I wonder why they haven't offered it to Baldwins or Roddy Richardson - people that would pay good money for something correctly fitting the description

Not convinced it is silver given the colouration in the image. They are so rare you wouldn't likely find one looking like that - i.e. lots of circulation marks and all surfaces looking polished. FDC it ain't. Anyone with a silver cartwheel 2d is going to know what they have. The images aren't good enough to establish the finer detail, but without the blocked stops seen on the proofs it doesn't tick any boxes for a P1071 or 1072 and frankly the condition gives it away as does the literacy level. If Azda could plumb the following into the Ayephone's random translation service, perhaps we could have a more coherent piece of prose. EXTEMELY SCARCE & RARE 1797 SILVER PROOF FDC. CARTWHEEL TWOPENCE IN UNC. WILL BE IN HIGH DEMANED FOR TOO Ta.

If it was stolen in a slab, the slab would disappear. Many coins formerly entombed in a slab are now free. Breaking it out would be the first thing the thief would do.

Why not keep it in a capsule? Vacuum sealed won't make any difference to the gold which will not change its colour appreciably any time soon. Sending it off to the TPGs wil cost money, but confer little value. The grade is not sufficiently high to risk changing its value when handling it. I realise US collectors like a fixed number on their coins, but this number is a total lottery when it comes to the US TPGs. Personally I think it is a waste of time and money to get it slabbed as it has considerable wear meaning you won't get a high number/high price for it. The vast majority of US TPG slabbed hammered coins are way overgraded by British standards.

Double striking occurs more often than not with hammered coins of any size, so this isn't a mint error. The depth of strike frequently varies across the flan, so parts can be well struck alongside flat bits. It usually took more than one hammer blow to make the coin, so any movement by the person holding the upper die is seen as double striking. The die axis depended entirely on how the upper die was held relative to the lower fixed die, so rotation is normal. Your coin is fine. There is considerably more detail on a well struck unworn coin.

90% with a feedback of 19 is only 2 negs. It doesn't take a lot to get negs as a seller. I got one for sending a reminder as the person hadn't paid a month after it ended. Nothing undiplomatic, just a standard invoice from eBay, Easily done. Or how about everything good and then leave a neutral.

Hi Susan. It's definitely a modern copy as the mark in the first quarter of the reverse (the one with 15 in it) has the heart shaped mark. This is worth a pound or two and no more.

Quite a lot I suspect. I just did some number crunching and compared to 10 years ago when I was averaging 450 feedbacks per year combined for both buying and selling, I find the period since they made accepting Paypal compulsory (from summer 2007) averages about 30 per year with no sales and so from purchases only. This past 12 months has seen 9 purchases (many other than coins), also reflecting the difficulty in finding anything worthwhile to bid on.

That's the article where Richard identified his 2b rose marked shilling as ex-Francis. See plate 3.

I posted a piece on the very same subject matter when we had one a few years ago. I can't remember the title of it now to find and link to it. It was a rather bizarre vibration yet somehow floating sensation as I remember.