Rob

One from eBay themselves now. Just looked at the wife's eBay account and she has 100 free listings in the Motor Car category only available to private individuals. How many non-businesses would conceivably have 100 cars to dispose of? You wouldn't get to 100 in a lifetime, let alone on the 1st of May.

Aren't all these external backup systems run by governments so they can keep tabs on everyone and have all the info in one place? i.e.run by the last people on the planet you would trust.

Obviously not a Time Machine or Dropbox user... oops. Not all of us have access to Dr. Who's Tardis. For this mere mortal, time is a steadily advancing non-reversible thing unless someone can invent something that genuinely works.

Jolt his memory and remind him that the post office gives you a receipt for tracked items. Tell him if he asks the PO to send you the coin by signed for/special delivery he will find this is true and that you aren't bs'ing him. Oh, and while you are on, tell him he's a t**t, but could alleviate the situation somewhat by sending you the coin that you won................... by tracked mail.

If nVF, then £27.50 is a bit steep. Your coin certainly isn't good VF. Tickets can also get mixed up.

I think they are by the same hand. The split line under Charles, the shape of the 3, T, the Roman 1. The earlier ticket certainly looks like the one attributed to Rayner in the BNJ. The use of Spink no 2785 would place the later reading to the period 1978-2005, with his retirement in 1989 implying it was written in the first 10 years. The price of £80 is in the right ballpark for a VF or a little better in the 1980s. He left Seaby in 1973, so if the earlier side was written by him whilst at Seaby it must be immediately post-decimalisation. Perusing Seaby's Bulletins for the period, there was a gFine on the books for about a year @ £10 reduced to 8. A really good fine at £12, and what may be the same as the ticket here, a VF with a good portrait @ £30 in Jan 1973 no.6162. There was however, another given as good VF very sharp Portrait @ £33 in April. This could be the same coin and a case of hype, trying to improve the selling prospects. There was also a nVF @ £16.50 with a stain on the obverse in Dec. 1973.

In a parallel universe. There appears to be many people who only buy on eBay and ignore dealers' lists and sites. Very few of the buyers I have sold to on eBay have returned via the site. They want their 99p coins - everything else is a rip-off.

Presumably use a cyrillic alphabet from the symbols bit in word

If you rationalise the list a bit, you will find you don't want too many. The following are either non-existent or for practical purposes unobtainable: 1960-54, 1952, 1943-41, 1933, 1925-23. That leaves you needing only 10 pieces from the 20th century - 1903, 1909, 1912, 1926, 1930, 1946, 1950, 1951, 1953 & 1961. In low grade, 1926, 50 & 51 will be the most difficult, the others most of us could pull out of a bag in fine.

I'm not sure I see the resemblance. Nonsense, it's there for all to see - the bell-end.

The main point is that I like to know the history of a coin, but that would apply to any antique collectable in my possession. I record the collections any one coin has appeared in to get its history. If it was illustrated in a collection from 100 years ago you can rest assured that it was recognised as being special in comparison to its peers. I note the provenance on the reverse of the ticket describing the coin, with extra tickets added when the list doesn't fit. Like Richard, I want to record all details and not just those from named collections. Whilst it doesn't eliminate the possibility of a coin being a copy, it does help to address the problems of modern copies pretending to be from an old collection. e.g. A few weeks ago I was looking at the so-called Perkin Warbeck groats. The jury is out as to whether these are as claimed or not, but what is certain is that the BM specimen has had copies made in the past as it was possible to identify 2 or possibly 3 individual coins as being identical to their coin. These things matter when the price gets into the thousands as most people take offence at being ripped off. A useful by-product is the ability to identify what constitutes a good example of a type. On a common coin it is not likely to be too much of a problem, but where you are limited to a couple dozen examples give or take a bit, they are sufficiently scarce to tempt you to buy the first one you see. This is something to avoid unless you appreciate what you are looking at. If you have illustrated examples of a particular variety of coin, it allows you to compare. So not only do you have a history, but you also have a good idea where a coin is in the quality pecking order. The two things run hand in hand. The largest number of images of any one variety I have is about 110 of the Besly A1Truro crowns. Of these, I can say with absolute certainty that I would only find a single digit number acceptable for the collection. This helps to keep your feet on the ground and refrain from buying things you will later regret. There isn't enough time in the day to do this for everything, but the more you can do the better you will be in the long run.

You're not allowed to say bronze pennies.

As someone who has collected since they were young, clearly the experience has been wasted time. I sometimes think that people grow up in a complete vacuum, but can't decide whether they are too embarrassed to ask questions or think they know everything in the first place. The me page talks about business hours, suggesting this is a professional business. The grading suggests a case of pinning the grade tail on the donkey scale. Given the number of places you can find illustrated grades, do these people use any reference books or is all grading done on a wishful thinking basis?

That amount wouldn't even buy you a museum copy. Is your family motto 'Fair prices never paid'?

It isn't a bad thing per se, just that the discussions rarely seem to diverge away from them - or so it feels. It rarely gets to farthings, and halfpennies are even more remote. There's a bit of interest in milled silver, but liking hammered often feels like you are ploughing a lone furrow.

I rest my case.

I hope people don't pay a silly premium for things like this.

Compared to the number of regular contributors, pennies are disproportionately represented amongst the denomination collectors. That's all. Even I have a few (bronze and copper) pennies. In fact I have examples in all metals. Oops. I lied. Sorry, don't have an example in aluminum.

Ah. You've got the wrong bloke here. I happily drive an asthmatic dog kennel and don't care as long as it does the job it needs to. When it drives from A-B you need a diary. Other cars have been a mini van, Vauxhall Viva estate, Morris Minor, Renault 5 x2, Escort XR3, Sierra diesel, Renault 21, Espace, Zafira, Focus, Fiesta and Seat Ibiza. I will concede that the most expensive on the list (Escpace) was the best car, but that was primarily because you could take all the seats out and fit in an engine hoist, pallet truck, A-Frame, pallets etc. Most importantly there was sufficient space for a load of beer, wine and sausages coming home from the Fatherland. The rest you could take 'em or leave 'em.

Love it Who me officer? No, I don't smoke drugs apart from this joint in my hand and the one I had yesterday and the day before This is a forum, not a social network in the generally accepted sense. The latter are things like facebook, twitter etc where people post inane comments incessantly, frequently displaying the fact they are an extrovert and quite often a t**t to boot. Personally I don't care if someone had a dump at 9am, less still do I want to see it in cinemascope. A forum can rise above that to discuss topics meaningfully, be it about coins or any other topic of interest.

In 1999 perhaps!!! Nowadays, the 'casual' computer user wants somewhere to store and play music, upload pictures from their camera, login to various social networks (which can involve a lot of picture sharing), play (and maybe download) videos on YouTube, play the odd game, perhaps buy and / or rent music and films, listen to live radio or TV online, or catch up on programmes they missed. If they're creative they will also use their computers to make music, edit movies, photographs etc, or write. Jeez Rob, where you bin these last 10 years or so? The same place I was the twenty odd years before - Manchester. Right, lets deal with the list. I don't store music, but do listen to the odd track occasionally on you tube. I upload pictures for the site, though the results are sketchy. Don't do social networks apart from this forum and a couple others. Don't download videos or play games. Don't buy or rent music or films. For the first see above, for the second, films are mostly much the same featuring the same old actors time after time. My kids have watched so many films down the years, I could probably make a collage of the snippets seen in passing and say I've seen the lot. I listen to the radio in the car. Don't listen to TV or radio online and rarely regret missing a TV program. Even if I have missed something it wil be repeated on a choice of channels tomorrow. The surfeit of drivel which passes for programming is on the whole uninspiring. I don't mind the odd documentary, but prefer to get my history lessons from books rather than Hollywood. As I said, it's a tool - not the centre of my universe.

Hmm. I appear to have inadvertently started a major discussion, not that I have the foggiest idea what you are talking about. When you have reached some sort of agreement, a little resume for the rest of us might be useful. For the majority of users it is a simple tool. Most people do not push their system to the limit, so any basic system will do. Most only require the ability to write word documents, do a bit with a spreadsheet and send/receive emails.

A little bit more obviously and cleanly double struck, and it would be like this coin which portrays both Charles'

Then they are suffering from an overdose of egotism. There's nothing wrong with the PC hardware, and even the apple software has bugs looking at the crap that the various ayephones occasionally dispense. Even designer shi*e has a price limit.