Rob

The one in 2007 I was thinking about was Sergy's in this thread. http://www.predecimal.com/forum/topic/3634-1700-half-penny-variety/

As it has been enamelled it will have lost most of its numismatic value, but there are a small number who collect them. The value will be quite low (a few pounds or tens of) in the majority of cases reflecting the small collector base, though quality of enamelling will also influence the price.

Well, none stay at £1 for long, they're on 10 day listings and eBay has support in place for when servers go down meaning that they'll reschedule your auction end, taking into consideration whatever time was affected. Help? Support? eBay? Shurely shome mishtake. Since when did 1+2=3?

That could go either very right or very wrong. To risk selling that much gold and silver starting at £1 a lot is asking for trouble. What happens if eBay goes down near the end?

I would say over-dipped and cleaned from the images

It might possibly contain traces of an underlying 4. Crossing the ball of the 5 is a line of dots which join a small rounded curl in the adjacent field. There is also a possible flat line equating to the foot of a 4 by the 5 base and a disturbance in the upper void of the 5 which would be correct for a 4 upright. There is anecdotal evidence for the time to suggest that die life was worryingly short in the 1840s and so dies were likely to have their useful lives extended by any means possible. Changing the final digit is an obvious means of doing so. I don't think there is an underlying 3 though. IMO people shouldn't get too hung up on whether it is a documented overdate or not. Dies were reclaimed wherever possible, and I think it likely that most years exist with the previous year's date overstruck, potentially on any denomination.

This is Adams 663 which was catalogued in the sale as a 3 over 3, but Colin thought it 5 over 3 or possibly 3 over 5. Whatever, it wasn't cleanly struck. Sorry, the best I can do image-wise. Edit to add: Why does Photobucket add this stupid /url on the back of every image? It appears to be getting progressively more difficult to use. What happened to good old copy and paste?

It may be done to make a political point. Take GC's Henry VIII Tournai groat which is dated 1513. Up to that date, no coin issued in the name of an English monarch had been dated, but for some reason it was decided to date this issue. It can be no coincidence that it was the year Henry resolved to recover some French soil following the loss of Calais nearly 60 years prior to this event and clearly made the political statement that the English were back in France, for which he was duly paid-off the following year. Nice little earner if you can do it. Or it could just be a fashion statement given the earliest dated French coin was 1491 and so the 1513 groat was issued not long after. Based on the design, it was obviously intended for circulation in the local economy.

The reign of Edward VI along with that of his father is one of financial skullduggery. William Sharrington was convicted of producing coin for his own financial gain at Bristol, but was subsequently rehabilitated. Henry VIII (Gordgon Brown's ancestor) completely bu****ed the nation's finances leading to the production of ever debasing currency. Even when the fine silver issues of Edward VI were struck, it was still necessary to produce base small change.

A couple for me. Nothing too exciting though, so my diet will not be restricted to beans on toast if I win them.

That's stupid. Surely they meant to price it at an OTT £325, which would be more in keeping with the inflated price they attribute to their plastic? I will do an uncirculated 1919 1d for less than 1/50th of their listed price

A number of oddballs were struck in 1923 and 1924 such as the nickel shillings etc. The early 1920s was clearly a period when a number of changes were either mooted or implemented. Following on from the changeover from 925 to 500 silver, we also see a redesign of the portraits to eliminate ghosting and a number of private patterns were produced for sixpences (see the Alfred Bole collection) along with larger silver denominations struck in gold. The engraving of a new penny reverse would be entirely in keeping with the experimentation seen elsewhere.

Fashion. Ayephones being a 'must have' accessory, all the embedded faults are therefore 'must have faults'. Get yourself a cheap mobile for a tenner and enjoy a hassle free life. Few people need to do much more than phone or text as the screens are too small to be very practical for surfing the web.

That's sensible policy irrespective of any seller's honesty credentials. Until they provide protection against fraud for both buyer and seller in equal measure, no sane seller would want to risk accepting paypal given the failsafe facility for the buyer to recover their outlay irrespective of circumstances. Paypal is not a level playing field and as part of eBay relies on sufficient sellers being desperate to raise something, however little, from their surplus/redundant possessions.

I did wonder if n***2 was a shill bidder id. Someone with time on their hands can plough through his/her past sales to see if this is a regular bidder throughout past listings. Sorry, don't have the patience.

Thanks, I must say I wouldn't want to spend a grand on a coin that had been tampered with in any way, especially a 'star' coin like Pies is after, I just wouldn't feel quite the same about it What about if it is the only available example?

That was David Chaytor (Bury North). They just don't learn, do they? They are still trying it on. When we eventually get politicians that are working for the good of the whole country instead of themselves and not just pandering to their mates, you might be surprised at their popularity.

I must confess that the prospect of a 1933 penny or whatever for less than £1250 does have its appeal. To provide the means of passing a law on this matter I suggest we vote Scott for our MP (Bury South) and get rid of that Ivan Lewis bloke.

You might be thinking of the 1 over a higher 1 http://www.rpcoins.co.uk/c15%20pics/02572.jpg in which case it was probably me or BCC.

Looks like I'm a serial offender in the overpaying department then.

Are you talking about the pictures here (above), Rob? I'm not sure that any email is involved? It's just either an internal attachment on this site, or a direct link to somewhere like Photobucket. I'm not sure how Outlook can block pictures on a website - I rather think you've got a browser issue. No, pictures on this website and other are fine. It is outlook telling you that outlook blocked the pictures to protect your privacy but they can be downloaded by right-clicking. This is complete b****cks. If it wanted to protect my privacy, all it has to do is stop the emails. This happens too often anyway such as failing to recognise an email from the wife in another room of the house is probably legitimate. Having decided to allow the email through, outlook should include all the content. I haven't got time to download everything separately because I probably get 20-30 a day, so all these emails get binned. If outlook decides a BT or CNG logo is pornographic or whatever reason and not fit for the eyes of a broad minded 55 year old it blocks it, there's no hope. I should change from Outlook to Windows Live, or Outlook's 'big brother' Exchange , if I were you. Apple's Mail "hides" images in any email it's marked as Junk, but if you click Not Junk, the images are all there, and next time it won't mark that sender as Junk. Don't have the alternatives on my computer, but it isn't worth buying them unless I know it will solve the problem. What someone needs to come up with is an intelligent facility for the user to tell microsoft who is acceptable & who not. If the system was able to learn from your assigning junk/not junk status to a sender, there would be little need for outlook to block most of those things it currently does.

http://stacksbowers.com/auctions/auctionlots.aspx?auctionid=192&sessionid=436 Link to the August sale. It starts with page 10 as that's where the British coins commence but you should be able to search from there for anything else. Thanks Richard. I see that lot 34819 is yet another incorrect slab attribution. P1243 instead of 1233 for anyone who wants to know. 34805 is worth chasing if anyone wants a DH11 with guilloche edge. A lot harder than the 966 and that looks a nice example.

Are you talking about the pictures here (above), Rob? I'm not sure that any email is involved? It's just either an internal attachment on this site, or a direct link to somewhere like Photobucket. I'm not sure how Outlook can block pictures on a website - I rather think you've got a browser issue. No, pictures on this website and other are fine. It is outlook telling you that outlook blocked the pictures to protect your privacy but they can be downloaded by right-clicking. This is complete b****cks. If it wanted to protect my privacy, all it has to do is stop the emails. This happens too often anyway such as failing to recognise an email from the wife in another room of the house is probably legitimate. Having decided to allow the email through, outlook should include all the content. I haven't got time to download everything separately because I probably get 20-30 a day, so all these emails get binned. If outlook decides a BT or CNG logo is pornographic or whatever reason and not fit for the eyes of a broad minded 55 year old it blocks it, there's no hope.

Need a link please. Unfortunately, since I replaced my computer three years ago, Outlook blocks most of what is in an email. Attachments get through IF the email gets through, but any pictures contained within the email don't and get removed by Outlook. All incoming items from Stacks (and most other salerooms) fall into this category. At least the physical catalogues are legible when I receive them.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1p-1-Pence-One-Penny-Coin-Buy-It-Now-Auction-/261262763900?pt=UK_Coins_OtherBritish_RL&hash=item3cd479677c The about me page is somewhat enlightening. Glass houses, stones, black pots and kettles etc spring to mind. Assistance with the translation can be found http://www.codesandciphers.org.uk/documents/egenproc/egenproc.pdf here