Rob

Penny.

I do.

It is hit and miss, but I don't think you should get hung up on the fact that you might attract a large import duty bill. Goods coming into the country attract whatever duties are deemed payable. As the law states that imported coins attract 5% VAT you should assume that you will be charged and view any non-collected charge as a lucky gift rather than the normal state of affairs. Even at £1500 it is only £75 VAT, so in the context of the scale of the purchase not a huge amount, however peeved you feel at having to pay anything at all.

I think it's kosher

Anything's possible if someone breaks the connection between logic and action

Got one Azda, your about 6 months behind on the trend Good, so perhaps you could elucidate. I can see how you will get enough friction to hold it on the front, but how is it anchored at the back? Clenched between the cheeks, or tied down by a tent peg stuck up your a**e?

That's a sweeping statement. Only time will tell if eBay/Paypal are willing to honour that. I wouldn't want to claim as a test case because they would be certain to fight a claim as far as possible in case they set a precedent for paying out. How many times are Paypal or eBAy known to have sided with a seller. We all have examples of where the buyer gets his money, but far more interesting would be those where his claim is rejected. Knowing you are in the right is not the same as getting eBay's support.

Presumably the US cent came free with the other one. I sold an 1818 a few months ago in considerably better condition at nearly VF. It made............just over £2.

I think that's a by-product of the excessive silver output in 1816-7. You often see the large output of a new currency type, followed by a scarce date 2 or 3 years down the line. 1818, 1864 pennies, 1938 G6, 1912 &13 G5, 1954 E2 Cu-Ni. In the case of the G3 recoinage, there had been a shortage of silver throughout the Napoleonic Wars, so only with the introduction of a token currency whereby the value of the silver was below face could they issue sufficient quantities to satisfy demand - which of course they did with a vengeance. 1818 is a pig of a date for mint state shillings in contrast to the previous 2 years which are abundant.

Providing you've got proof of postage and/or the signature obtained upon delivery the only claim would be "Not as described" and I'm not sure how someone could claim it was 179 days before they noticed it wasn't as described without PayPal suspecting something fishy. The concept of retaining evidence for half a year would be mind boggling for the casual seller as opposed to any business which would keep receipts as a matter of course. So the question for them is how they store the evidence of delivery. Does the PO keep signatures for 6 months or is it less? As to the 180 day ruling, Paypal would adopt the same attitude as with something bought the day before - and then decide in favour of the buyer.

I concur. My current asthmatic dog kennel is a Fusion. Quality control was non-existent. All the trims were held on with same polarity magnets - or so it seemed. Driving along minding your own business and the covers between the front and back side windows wold fall off. Performance is terrible. It was cheap in the dealers for a good reason.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who finds eBay increasingly relegated to the back burner. At £260ish there's still a bit of mileage in it for somebody.

Another partner?

There's loads of them out there, because for in house printouts it is the cheapest way of producing them. No need for glossy paper, you can use fairly dusty recycled paper without hassle. Newsagents mostly print off the paper-round sheets on one for example - certainly their software is designed for them and I don't know any who use more sophisticated devices. It's cheap and cheerful when you need a simple list. I've had ink jets, lasers etc since the 90s myself and continue to have one for other printouts, but see no point in changing the accounts computer printer until I run out of 3 part tractor feed invoices. End of year reports are only for me, as are stock lists and valuations etc so it could be printed on bog paper for all I care. Incapable of being b******d by your truly, it's a Star NL-10 which has to be the most robust printer ever made. It was the one I got with the first computer in the 1980s and is almost completely maintenance free as I've only had to clean it out once when it jammed up with paper dust. Not bad for 28 years old.

I've always assumed they start out a new design with a new pair of dies, but then replace each die as it disintegrates. As both don't normally fail at the same time you can build up a sequence to determine which dies were paired and the sequence of that pairing. This works for low mintage issues such as the sequence established for the Guernsey coinage. For longer runs utilising many dies, if they decide to stop producing a denomination then the dies are removed and set aside. Depending on where they are placed would determine whether the old pair were reinserted at a later date or a random pair were used later. I think they would have more than a single die pair, so a later pairing would be what is in the die box. If the obsolete ones were not discarded, this is where they would go and hence be available for later use.

Just a note for anyone going tomorrow. We are not in the usual room, but the one to the left where they join two rooms separated by the narrow bit at the emergency exit. Me, Neil and Derek are in the far room from the entrance. Please don't spend all your money before you get to the other side. Thanks.

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.