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Hello Adam, Check my website. Those that are not listed will probably be in my spare stock. Let me know if there are any you want and I will sort you out a discount. Regards, John.

At £1500 he is just about at break even then. Still more than it's worth though.

Blimey. Say what you like about the seller formerly known as "gg..something or other", but he does get 'em in. £411 with 4 days to go... Superb isn't it. I forecast near £2k. Tell you what, if I had the cash, I'd be in there saying, "come to Daddy" £1,561.11 with 3 days to go... Presumably the higher up the coinie pyramid you go, the less people are there, and the more chance there is that you lot will know who's likely to be bidding? The penny world is cloaked in mystery and intrigue Declan, sort of like MI5! The buyer(s) of the 2 rare 1863 coins last year remain a none ee mouse. I guess it won't be a well known buyer for this coin as the quality is not as good as the listing claims it to be. I sold a better example a couple of years ago and I only called it GEF, due to it being slightly edgy with some minor nicks and bag marks. New high end buyers are jumping on the investment hype every week and it is possibly one of those who is the high bidder. There are better examples out there and they can be acquired for around the £2k mark if you look hard enough.

Looks more likely that the coin has been in a fire, obviously post production.

Hello John, It is a Charles II silver threepence (the amount of interlinked C's on the reverse signify the denomination). It is the commonest date and denomination of all C II small silver, arguably of all of his coinage, and looks to have a crease in the flan. The value is around £5. Regards, John.

You need to invest in Michael Gouby's British Bronze Penny specialist edition Dave. It is a million times easier to use than Freeman and lists umpteen varieties that were unknown when Freeman was written. At £50 it is a snip and will earn you a lot more than that in the long run.

You forgot to tell us about the strong rubbing lustre on the coin Dave. Lol, i only want to buy the hole John, not the coin, its the best hole ever He's wrong I'm afraid. I'll just quote the late great Richard Burton in Where Eagles Dare "A hole is a hole is a hole as they say"

You forgot to tell us about the strong rubbing lustre on the coin Dave.

That works fine until the day your snipe just beats another using the same strategy. Then you find yourself having to pay the "stupidly high price" You only pay the price you want to pay Peck I was commenting on a strategy that involves sniping a "stupidly high price" - it COULD happen that your S.H.P. outbids someone else's S.H.P. by only a few pounds, and then you HAVE to pay! I used to deal on ebay in antique silver (still have a bit), hence the argentum in my business name. Anyway, back to Pecks point, one day I was trawling the sold prices on Irish dessert spoons (had just bought some and wanted to know what they were fetching on ebay) when I found a sold single spoon for £1113.85 (made up the figure as it was 5 years ago ish, but it was certainly more than £1000). The spoon was from a recorded silversmith of no great importance, in average condition and had no armorial crest or provenance. The only conclusion I could draw was that 2 idiots with snipes had pushed the price to the incredulous level it reached (winning bid was within 5 seconds of auction end). The true value of that spoon at the time was about £50. Snipe high at your peril!

I didn't say I didn't bother with waffle on my site listings

Hello Chris, It looks like an H over E to me but I would like to have hands on to confirm it. William III coinage is littered with errors, a lot of which aren't recorded in book form yet. I just bought a 1697 halfcrown last week with the inverted A in DECUS edge error that Rayner didn't see (Colin Adams had it in his collection though). I couldn't find any references online to that error but Rob may know of it? Try listing in the unconfirmed varieties heading where it may elicit more response. John.

If it does that to toning on coins what exactly does it do to your insides

Even stranger how most of the bullying is done by the EU, which is headed by....... Germany and France!

Colin is more qualified than me to comment on Farthings. I have a large stock already as they are very slow sellers, so I tend not to bother looking at them when I attend auctions. Freeman states that flaws and weak strikes are common on the 1860 obverses. I note that yours also has a flaw above the A of Victoria. The first flaw looks like an apostrophe so if it was a Penny you would probably have created a new variety! The reverse is more interesting with the very badly re-cut linear circle and the 1 and 6 of the date both re-cut. I don't think the flaws would increase the value, but they certainly increase the appeal to me. I like oddities and find them much more interesting than the other identical coins of the same date.

Keith is a mad keen supporter, hence the sponsorship.

You chaps have obviously failed to account for the infuriated seller (in some cases me ). The scenario is; Seller lists item at 99p start to cut his/her already gut-wrenching ebay fees, seller does not set reserve because this is an invitation to ebay to violate their rectum for even more extortionate fees, seller expects said item to realise close to or even over it's value, with 12 hours to go bid is only at 99p and seller thinks "sod this for a game of soldiers" and ends listing. Moral of the story, even the highest snipe sometimes fails to win the day

Saw this posted by a member on Hus's forum http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/OLD-BRITISH-COIN-EDWARD-VIII-RARE-COIN-1937-/170545507941?pt=UK_Coins_BritishMilled_RL&hash=item27b54dee65 £229 for a recent fantasy pattern??!!!!?? The bullshit the seller spouts about "auction house" leaves him wide open to prosecution for dishonesty offences. Greed and ignorance are bad bed fellows!

Come now gentlemen, this is a coin forum not a political debating arena!

That's why we all use the forum, for help and advice from others. Regards, John.

In that case I am the headwind. NGC list one 1673 1/2d in MS65 and PCGS two in MS64 as top of the respective population reports. The MS65 and one of the MS64s both now out of the slabs and so safely out of reach of the number chasers. After all, they would be more interested in the pieces of plastic with the number on it - I'll see if I can find them if they haven't been thrown out. Ah, a mahogany man I presume? I'll give you a trillion for them (Zimbabwe note of course) Better make that two trillion as both had the wrong attribution. The NGC coin was my 1675/3/2 and the PCGS was a 1675/3. Both initially acquired because they were obviously wrong!! You can keep them then Rob. If it was the wrong attribution on both they weren't worth the paper they were laser printed on! Slabs, they should remain where they were intended to be..... on top of graves! Seriously though, just to make a point on personal taste; I had a customer that looked at a picture of a slabbed halfcrown and immediately said no. He came and got the coin in hand, moved the slab in the light and then took it because it looked a hundred times better in direct sunlight. Next question was "how do you take them out?"

The mule has a toothed obverse and beaded reverse, so although yours is badly worn it cannot be the mule as the reverse is clearly toothed border. John.

In that case I am the headwind. NGC list one 1673 1/2d in MS65 and PCGS two in MS64 as top of the respective population reports. The MS65 and one of the MS64s both now out of the slabs and so safely out of reach of the number chasers. After all, they would be more interested in the pieces of plastic with the number on it - I'll see if I can find them if they haven't been thrown out. Ah, a mahogany man I presume? I'll give you a trillion for them (Zimbabwe note of course)

Hmm .. so are you saying that you think in time people will be buying the slab, not the coin 400? That confidence in the market will fall so low that people will be wary of buying anything not 'authenticated'? Or ... Just not quite sure why their value will be enhanced over a similar coin of a similar grade? But it seems to me that my argument isn't about that. You after all are making an assessment (based I presume on your experience and knowledge) as to whether a coin will 'make the grade'. You are selecting coins you consider to be worth slabbing. You're not being lazy. What concerns me is the future buyer being swayed purely by the fact that your coin is slabbed, not by the fact that you owned it (and that you are known to be a good judge of a decent coin) or that they like the look of it. That's lazy. Or in fact, when people start looking for the highest graded slab, we're no longer talking numismatics IMHO but a different hobby entirely. Correct Tom, if you look back at my earlier post..... it's called a pissing competition!

I assume you are talking about the Jersey issue? Currently around £400 retail (your cost to replace). Selling price would be £300-£350 ish (less in an auction). The value is based on certificate of authenticity and original case being with the coin, although it will probably just go as bullion. Thank you I do not have the certificate that I now of, and the box that its in is a small Clear box with a blue insert thanks again for you help Sorry, sounds like yours is just a cupro-nickel version with a gold finish, meaning it's value will be £2 to £5. A picture would help.

I assume you are talking about the Jersey issue? Currently around £400 retail (your cost to replace). Selling price would be £300-£350 ish (less in an auction). The value is based on certificate of authenticity and original case being with the coin, although it will probably just go as bullion.