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They were indeed. I still have nightmares...

Interesting that two bidders thought it worth at least £40, including 2***8 who'd chased it all the way from £10. The underbidder dropped out at £25 which I'd have said was its absolute maximum value. Too true. I'd certainly also place the obverse at only EF

Curiously, it now reminds me of the familiar 5 over 3 (as in 1865 pennies)

I'm a Mac person myself, but I've had laptops go as dead as dodo on me before now. The battery was usually flat, but the power adaptor wouldn't work either. It turned out there was a software cure that was to do with the Power Management System. You had to disconnect EVERYTHING (remove battery, power adaptor, etc) then press a certain key combination, wait ten seconds, reconnect the power, and try again. It worked more often than not. (Does Windows have a similar magic key cure?) When 'not', it turned out usually to be the laptop's internal Power Supply Unit, which was more costly to replace, but cheap compared to losing your laptop and all its precious unbacked up data...

Holly came from Miami FLA Hitch-hiked her way across the USA Plucked her eyebrows on the way Shaved her legs and she was a he They don't write songs like that anymore! I am not so sure the rest of the lyrics would be quite as socially politically correct these days. What, you mean Candy came from out on the IslandIn the back room she was everybody's darling But she never lost her head Even when she was giving head She says, "Hey, babe, Take a walk on the wild side." Said, "Hey, babe, Take a walk on the wild side." And the colored girls go "Doo di doo di doo do do doo..." Hmm, yes I see what you mean

Knowing him he might well wanna be Henry IX - he thinks VIII got a bad rap. George VI was really an Albert wasn't he? Edward VII certainly was. As for Charlie-boy, he's got another 4 wives to go yet, before he can call himself another Henry..

Reminds me of one time I was checking on what my son was looking at on the computer. Turns out he was looking at youtube.com - he must have had a difficult time finding what he wanted to look at because he couldn't spell "breast" right and spelt it as "brest". I wasn't mad because of what he wanted to look at but he has never lived down not being able to spell a part of the feminine anatomy correctly. Now he is getting ready for college and I still bring up that incident from 7-8 years ago. That's great! I was too busy trying to spell baksyde myself! LATEST NEWS Stuart comes out live on predecimal. You crack me up! I of course meant l'm a ligs and arz MAN myself! I understood you Stuart! I started off as a legs man meself, but came late to the exquisite nature of a pert 'baksyde' (I'm thinking I'd best rephrase part of that).

Holly came from Miami FLA Hitch-hiked her way across the USA Plucked her eyebrows on the way Shaved her legs and she was a he They don't write songs like that anymore!

I'm just reading about (the real) Richard III. Apparently the Tudor usurpers got some rhyme going about "A Cat and a Rat ruled over by a Hog"!

PM me your seller name and I will look up what you've got

I am going to start using them, but I haven't done so yet ... what's the insurance like?Same levels as the RM! For heavier packages, above a letter I mean, they've cornered the market! Do look them out...truly impressed!And you've been employed by them for ... how long now?

What anyone is prepared to pay for it. (Sell it with the RM letter though.)

Aussie 1953 may be worth more than the equivalent UK coins. Oh, they're AUSSIE coins? That'll teach me to read it properly first.

Interesting. Graded one 1917 and rejected 5 ... makes you wonder what earns this particular one a kosher ticket?

And thats exactly where i need your help guys. I spend 2-3 hours a day looking for coins/checking forum etc. but my hand on experience is very little. I know what to buy back to KGIII but beyond that i know nothing. Ive never bought any hammered coins and i only have one early milled:) I am now - as a type collector - finding that prices for early milled in decent grades are spiralling out of my reach. HOWEVER.. I've discovered there is a major way to 'cheat'. Unlike from late George III onwards, there was a great uniformity of design : Britannia appears on all base metal coins from Charles II to George III (first series) and there are only really two designs - early and late. One of each might suit you. Likewise with silver - the reverses are very limited in number from crown down to sixpence, and it's all a question of 'roses and plumes' or plain by and large, with honourable exceptions for SSC shillings and one or two others. So if you limited your ambitions to reverse DESIGNS, only a relatively small number of coins would tick all boxes from 1662 to 1775.

1953 3d and 6d estimate $200 - am I missing something here??

Good question. "Genuine reproductions" of major rarities tend to have a market of their own, but fakes of - e.g. a 1933 penny where a genuine penny has had the date expertly altered - fetch 3 figures on eBay.

don't ya just love 'em!Edit: kids that is! Sir Jimmy certainly did..

Oh yes, it is. I wonder if he has been tested for MS? Probably has. His burning sensation sounds much like neuritis, which afflicted me in the early days, but not so much since.

Blimey, that was cheap Sure was! Mind you, a mid-morning end...

I think the whole philosophy of the grading:price ratio has changed, certainly since the 60s. Back then you had 3 top grades that were closer together : UNC: a state rather than a condition EF: today's AUNC, with a price to match, VF: today's GVF or even NEF and closer to EF in value than now. Then you had F, trailing a long way behind, the "minimum acceptable condition" for collectors Now, due to international pressures? collector influence? dealer practice? all these and more?, you have a situation where the 4 top grades are more evenly spaced, and so are the values. Which effectively means that UNC and F should be the same grades as they were (though in some lists F covers a multitude of sins..), but EF has dropped quite a lot, and VF dropped to a lesser extent. I'm not sure how typical this is, but these are the values (Seaby/Spink) for a 1904 halfcrown in 1966 and 2012 : F 2:50 VF 5:00 EF 12:00 (no UNC value listed, but one would guess that it would have been probably £15-£18) F 65:00 VF 300:00 EF 925:00 UNC 2500:00

I am not criticising Heritage in any way. I have bought from them before and agree with your comments. My comments are to do with this particular sixpence. My valuation was $60 with a willingness to go to $70. Even allowing for a premium for the grading and slabbing, I don't understand why someone would pay $155. That is why I was wondering if there was some esoteric detail that I might be missing in the coin. What nationalit(ies) are the main customers for Heritage? American I should imagine Enough said. That alone would account for the über-high-priced coin in a slab...

I think it may have been planned but never happened. Anyway I think the Nazis would have made a better job of it, I mean its under weight by about a third and has a milled edge. Only a fool would have been fooled by that one. The same fools who were taken in by an elaborate bluff that Calais would be the main focus of invasion on D Day? But I take your point. How would fake crowns destabilise the economy? 3/4 of a million 1935 crowns as against getting on for half a billion halfcrowns in circulation? No, the fake fiver was the real deal.

I am not criticising Heritage in any way. I have bought from them before and agree with your comments. My comments are to do with this particular sixpence. My valuation was $60 with a willingness to go to $70. Even allowing for a premium for the grading and slabbing, I don't understand why someone would pay $155. That is why I was wondering if there was some esoteric detail that I might be missing in the coin. What nationalit(ies) are the main customers for Heritage?

Yes, absolutely. (By the way - trivial point - I note that the Chinese Coins forum opens up a new tab when you click a link, unlike this one which takes you away from here, so you have to Go Back through however many levels it took you away, in order to return here. Chris, any chance we could have the same here : i.e., when you click an embedded link, it opens a new tab?) Why not just right click and choose 'open in new window'? Because I belong to so many forums, I'd just like to simply click on a link and it opens a new tab, which some do and some don't. All I'm asking for is some consistency, so I don't have to keep remembering "Does this forum do it? Or not?".