Rob

Don't think it happens very often, but as to whether it has much added value..................? Probably a couple of quid to an error collector.

966 listings on eBay as I write. - some b*****d's holding on to the other 209,000.

If that sale happened today, it is reasonable to assume that you could buy a Ferrari with the proceeds. An excellent sale of material from George III onwards. 5 guineas down to farthings et infra. Lots of patterns, proofs, tokens, colonial issues etc. in addition to normal currency.

Bought is a very long word. i.e it doesn't fit very well onto a ticket, particularly if you also have to include a cumbersome auction house name, lot number, date and sale name as well. So for example - Bought Baron Philippe de Ferrari La Renotiere 355, Sotheby Wilkinson & Hodge 27/3/1922 is quite a mouthful. Somewhat easier would be Bt Ferrari 355, Sotheby 27/3/1922 Every little helps.

Tried that and it seems to work ok. i.e. a saved html file is genuinely saved as it appears in the download and not just a link. Thanks.

Probably the collar came adrift during the strike. Or someone has filed them down.

Bought

I'm not sure if that requires a thank you or not as I'm now completely confused. Saving as a text page is no different to viewing a very long txt msg w/o punctuation (whatever that abbreviates to), i.e. it's bl***y difficult. Any way of saving a complete thread in the message box with clear separation of each successive post is what's required. If anyone saves messages - how do you do it? I am using Firefox and outlook.

In keeping with the post a few above, I don't think they can release the mintages until after the end of the calendar year. Whilst they might know in advance for the commemorative crap marketed to the masses, a regular currency piece's mintage will depend on the demand from the banks for coin. If they don't order it, the Mint doesn't produce it.

Another question. As it arrives in the inbox, each separate post is clear. Saved as text, everything goes into a page of continuous script without showing clear breaks between posts. Saving as HTML page gives the same layout as arrives, but I'm wondering if the integrity is maintained if I delete the conversation in the forum inbox? i.e. is the conversation genuinely saved to the computer in HTML mode given the file size in my folder is a lot smaller than the inbox file size, or does my computer interrogate the forum messages at the host when I want to view the thread? I don't want to delete something I can't recover at a later date. Ta.

Maybe there's no need to do anything. I've just tried using the archive conversation button and it gives a different layout to the normal notification. i.e the full number of posts made but without all the links to the conversation in the forum, AVG scan results etc. (i.e all the crap you don't want). I had assumed the forum email advising of a reply together with the content was effectively archiving it. Although it dumps it in the inbox rather than an individual's folder for coin communications, it is still a vast improvement.

Yes, pity the poor owner of the fourth example.

I agree that more than 50 would be useful. However, all is not lost : if you choose the option of 'Archive this conversation', you get sent the particular conversation(s) as an email, one for each conversation, which you can then store in a suitable mailbox (I have one called ... wait for it ... 'Predecimal' ) It does this automatically for me because every reply comes through as an email. It's all the superfluous blurb attached to the content that makes this option unappealing. You would still have to prune 95% of the incoming email, which is effectively easier cutting and pasting into a separate document until complete. It is better to have them all under one file than separate posts which you have to join up - even if you did have a folder for each conversation. It could be done, but would be a real pain in the a**e. Just having a 'predecimal' folder containing each reply would be as disorganised as my email inbox, which has a predecimal folder in all but name as I can do a search for predecimal in outlook and all replies will appear - just not joined up by thread.

You often find that there is a rare moneyer for a common mint, or a common moneyer at that mint who is rare for a particular issue. That requires a lot of reading and data collection. Single moneyer mints are invariably at least scarce. Roughly 50 % of the Saxon coinage comes from the 5 main mints of London, York, Canterbury, Lincoln and Winchester.

Will do. Not sure why the email bounced, maybe the local area was having remedial work done. Can't be a full inbox because there are 7273 messages in it - that's neither a power of two, nor a very round number. Admin: Is there any way for the size of the mailbox to be increased? It's just that I have had more than 50 interesting conversations that I wanted to keep, but haven't the time or patience to copy, paste, name and file accordingly under the relevant heading.

Less so than mints. Moneyers are one level up in specialisation. If you think in terms of one of..... each reign, then each type, then each mint, then each moneyer, then each die. By the time you have reached the last level, you should be reassuringly on top of your subject (and probably living in splendid isolation)

Looking at the list, Goda is shown, but is probably the same person as God and Oda. Depending on the consistency of spelling and literacy levels of inner city London in the 10th-11th century, there may be more duplication. I haven't looked too hard, but the above stood out.

And the next page. It doesn't break them down into issues that individuals struck. There may be one that has turned up since 1992.

Taken from the last edition of North

I will leave counting the number on eBay to someone else. You can always rely on the British public.......... Mine will have to stay as it is considerably more interesting than the 2007 Britannia reverse or the 2012 silver 5 ounce lump of bullion, though to its credit, Pegasus isn't bad.

wow. I thought siding with sellers was against eBay policy? Or have they had a change of heart?

I know! And that one has a Smurfette on it! Admittedly one engraved by WJ Taylor, who I believe was associated with Heaton for a while, before unsuccessfully trying to make his fortune in Australia. Taylor returned from Australia before 1862, as 1862 was the year he is generally thought to have commenced his Soho restrikes.

In the case of Spink, I think they use the catalogue description, which, although potentially liable to enhancement, is far more likely to represent reality than any eBay summary

A quadruped of the highest order.

3 examples coming up a total of 5 times in the past 60 years in the case of the Oxford 2/6d.