Gary D

A seller not knowing what he's got can also work to your advantage. My 1908 164a penny for a couple of dollars insured for £600, BU 1909 penny with dot £65 insured for £3500. And would dipping a 1933 penny slow it down for 1 second.

New Times Roman is not considered cool now days. Try an Arial or something more modern.

If you sold the item through the UK site then why should you have to respond in German, it should be the Germans who would have to respond in English surely? Another thing is, 3 days to Germany from the UK for delivery is quite non existant, i should know, i live here and buy from there I have often found the postage from Germany to be slower than the States, 10-14 days doesn't seem unusual. No tracking I assume.

Star, what star, I want a star as well.

It all changes with the amount of posts you have. 1000 and over you will be a God or in your case Godess like me. I'm thinking of changing my name to Adonis now "in your case Goddess like me" Is there something you are not telling us, come on we can keep a secret.

The big problem for me is with lower value International sales, where the minimum that the Royal Money Machine charge for tracked is now £8. who in their right mind would pay that for a £2-£4 coin? Ebay is my way of shifting dross that is not good enough for my site or coins that need a worldwide audience to achieve the best results. In relation to blocked bidders, yes, they do know they are blocked when they attempt to bid. I have blocked countries on my listings and nobody in those countries can bid on my items now (unless they email me and I add them to a pre-approved bidders list). Those countries are Spain, Italy, Romania, CHINA, India, Ukraine and Russia. Todays pain in the posterior was a Russian gentleman who won a halfpenny token for less than £3, his total with airmail was about £4.40. I was messaged by him last month "me not got my item when you post?" I gave him the date of dispatch (from the ebay site) and told him to open a dispute and I would refund him immediately. Todays message; I will be forced to leave negative feedback..( Is opening a dispute such an arduous task? That is the only way ebay can keep tabs on scammers and how I manged to get the last one kicked off the site. I had another "lady" of Eastern European nationality now residing in Belgium rape me for a £22 Netherlands 10 Cent. She is an ebay seller and will only sell with registered postage as an option. She has obviously been the subject of claims but is more than happy to rip somebody else off? A coin from the States caught my eye and I'd probably get it for the $9.99 starting price, it's the $37 postage that I'm find a bit hard to swallow.

e***n should be getting an email in a couple of day saying how the purchaser has been messing about and how would you like it for your top bid.

I had a nice letter from HMG around Chistmas time telling me I need to work another nine months. Trouble is it's all changing so fast it's not possible to know what will happen in the next 8-10 years.

Only the sale of gold coins is free from CGT. Don't tell em. It is easily done. Quite so. Who's going to declare the trickle sales of coins? As long as it's within the annual CGT allowance, nobody cares. Even then, the allowance usually applies to individual items or sets. So as long as each individual item sale is below £6k then several sales can be made per year. This is from the BBC website and talks about stamps, but could equally be about coins: Question: I am in my 60s now, and have been building my philatelic stamp collection for over 40 years. Whilst I have not kept records of my expenditure over the period, it has sometimes been substantial. I have now commenced selling my collection gradually on eBay and through some UK auction houses. The proceeds average about £1,500 a month, and could continue to do so for quite a number of years. How do I establish if I have any tax liability in this situation? At present I am also in full time employment and pay tax through the PAYE system. Do I have to report my stamp sales on my self-assessment returns? Answer: Stamps would normally count as assets for CGT purposes and so would be liable to tax on disposal. However, they would rank as "chattels" (tangible moveable property) and would be outside CGT if the proceeds do not exceed £6,000 per item. What "an item" is might be an issue: HMRC do have some anti-avoidance rules to stop someone breaking up a set and selling in stages to keep under that limit. They say that a collection of stamps is not normally regarded as a set even if all the stamps are from one country or are all about a particular theme such as birds. However, if it contains examples of all the values of a commemorative issue or a definitive issue of one country, these will, themselves, form a set. There may be a question of HMRC asking whether you are trading by disposing of your collection in stages. That would lead to income tax. You may be able to escape that by showing that it is the only practical way of disposing; that you did not aim to make a profit when you bought, just enjoyment. But the fact that you are selling over an extended period in regular amounts may cause some problems. Interesting. So for most people CGT won't be an issue (I'd love to have a coin worth > £6k), unless HMRC decides that a collection of Victorian pennies constitutes a set. This is something I hadn't comsiddered. I was intending to sell my collection in about 8 years time on my retirement, just before fleeing the country. I was hoping for a big auction along the lines of what CC does occassionally. I'd like to think it would be worth in the region of about 100k by then. The last thing I'd won't to do is pay tax on it

1992 and 1893 both have LVI. 1894 could be an edge error. Could be of interest if it is the case.

Just had a look at the pictures I have of 1896 crowns and the LIX has a narrow gap and the LX has a wider gap. Davies list six varieties or 1896 crowns, "A LIX LX, 1D LIX LX and 2D LIX LX.

Can we seee some photos and descriptions of what to look for please? I'll 3rd that - we need to see pictures. It was verified as fake by CGS - their reference (or UIN) was 0019679. I've no chance of uploading a pic with maximum allowable file size of 150 K !! Never say never - here's a photo of the incompletely struck (or broken) rose. What am I looking at, I have a couple of crowns with a bit of wear were the roses look no different to that.

Surely there's a trades description breach here? pris·tine/ˈprisˌtēn/ Adjective: 1.In its original condition; unspoiled. 2.Clean and fresh as if new; spotless. I don't think it qualifies as either. It's just plain nasty. I always get a smile from the bright EVII farthings that someone has gone to a lot of trouble removing the mint toning. Seems to be Americans mainly.

Can you check again Richard, i got 93 ridges Oooooo hyper varieties. Something to add to the collection.

According to the media, but then I guess it's the medias job to decide such matters.

I can remember at junior school we did a project on TDC.Talk about give me six. Unhealthy and inbred and rains 75% of the time (sounds like Norfolk ) Makes weddings cheap though, only have to invite one side of the family

It sometimes is used as am indicator or authenticity, handy if you have a known genuine item and a suspect coin of the same type.... and a lot of patience! Easy to tell, just mesh them together and rotate, you will soon spot the difference, mind you you would need a concensus as to which is the genuine artical.

it's simple the penny is going down hill because the pound is going down hill,the pound is going down hill because the country is going down hill, in recent months you've had what was called called devaluation of the pound now known as Quantitative easing -printing mony mony with no value,the problem is not the penny but what gives the penny worth. Oh dear. This is all very serious. What happened to our light-hearted banter? Pffffft. In some countries the smaller denominations still exist but are no longer used. Make the 5p the smallest used denomination and if you need to give change for less than 5p give them a sweet or something. err hang on, can you still get a boiled sweet for less than 5p

I took my gold set into coincraft when visiting the BM on the off chance they might know something about them. They didn't.

That looks very much like an altered 1964. Scuffing on both sides of the last 1. Whoever paid that price must be cursing. 61 bids,4 bidders only and it would seem inexperienced muppets. I paid £25 for mine, thanks Chris, and it make that one look amateurish.

I was also looking at this one to replace my well-struck highly frosted cameo specimen, well I suspect it is. Graded PR67 by PCGS. I contacted the auction house prior to the auction and they assured me that it was a VIP. I'm not convinced.

12. 1935 crown, why

I agree - it's preferable to ugly toning, and it is possible to dip LIGHTLY without destroying all lustre. what silver dip do you use? The one I would have used if I'd ever had reason to use it hypothetically on one or two hypothetical coins that may have needed a slight bit of dipping if I'd been the sort to use it was simply called 'Silver Dip' and came from Tesco. [Oops, slight correction - my hypothetical dip is "Goddards"] I was routing around in the cupboard under the sink and at the back collecting dust I found a pot of something called 'Silver Clean' by Hagerty. It was next to something called Brasso which I hear is good for copper and bronze.....apparently.

Well I suppose it's closer to EF than UNC