£400 for a Penny ?

I believe I am right in saying that there was someone faking PCGS slabs some while back - a slightly different slant on the whole thing...

I stand corrected then.

From my perspective it's more that they are nigh on impossible to find. All true, but neither he nor ebay in this instance are doing anything wrong. It's not like the forgery business at all IMO.

The bloke behind London coins has been around for about 30 years or so, I guess the benchmarks might be his own personal collection, I don't know, by reports though they are supposed to be quite impressive. CGS itself has graded about 13,000 coins now I think in approx 5 years is it ? No, you don't have to be certified to be a grader/slabber, you're just offering an opinion and perhaps, some form of guarantee which is a more difficult area.

Did it cost much ?

Actually, all joking aside, we could do with a second UK slabber to compete with CGS....

And two more beneath her left arm on her chest.....

Opening for business without a champagne reception is certainly a breach of protocol......

Well, that's a start, can anyone think of something we can do to back this fellow up ? I posted a link to the BNTA website in response to a request for reputable dealers from a new entrant some while back and received a chorus of catcalls and a barrage of virtual soft fruit. Is it the case then, that the BNTA isn't well thought of and if so, is there any other body representing the coin hobby that we can take this up with ? Are there any organisations representing the collector. I do feel that we have to take this up with ebay, we can't just sit on our arses and let 'someone' else do it...

Ah so. Perhaps they will catch up with themselves later in the week and ask to be paid. I also was told that I had been outbid, but nothing on the others.

Oh okay, no. 43 (1873 1d). I actually bid on 5 items but that was the only one I won. Did you get notification that you had won, or did you have to ask ?

I'm not sure to be honest, I haven't heard anything either way ?

You can't have a point for each denomination in the series, you get one point for the bullion Britannia's Yes, those and the trade dollars, any more ?

Mate, the standing Britannia. Name me two other series which feature her ?

Looking a lot like something from the Raj...

Keep trying....

My point being, the clever forger doesn't forge the high value items, where everyone is naturally suspicious anyway, they forge the things everyone assumes nobody would bother to forge.

Yes, You've done something wrong there Coinquest.

Yes Peck, we did - we're just letting it die a natural death out of respect to both Az and Aard. The most effective fraud in history was in the USA in the sixties I think, someone hacked into a banks computer system and syphoned a cent off every account, every month and no-one noticed for ages. Issuing point being that it's not necessarily the high tariff coins that will get faked.

Bit of a tough ask without a picture, Paul. Pictures tend to draw out, those who know.....

Boots the chemist used to have a coin collecting section where they sold a few coins Gary Really ?

Unfortunately they are all deceased. I'm tempted to continue the foolishness and ask if you 'rubbed them all out' but that would probably be in poor taste, so instead I'll say I'm sorry to hear it. I myself have a cast iron alibi, I was an embryo and not at that time capable of independent navigation.

Is it just me that half hopes the public regain their senses and they end up being stuck with it? If I read it correctly, I think they brokered a deal, bought it off some "reluctant" seller and sold it on to another collector. The proceeds of the sale are going to charity evidently and the coin outfit were too exhausted to attend the Long Beach show - probably as a result of getting slaughtered for a week celebrating their $200K brokerage.....

Blimey. Well, if you're watching Mr Chinaman, surely you'd be better off faking those eh ?

You got witnesses to that ?