Peckris

Don't bother with a DSLR unless you're interested in photography. If you don't need one, they are heavy, bulky and require a huge investment in lenses etc. The most you need is a Point & Shoot compact that has a macro setting. If it doesn't, get one with quite a high resolution (e.g. 12MP minimum), shoot as near as you can, then crop the picture down to just the coin.

Well, if that's the standard of Photobucket videos, I don't think YouTube will lose any sleep Medals were minted the same way up if you rotate them on a vertical axis, but coins always used to be minted the same way up if you rotate on a horizontal axis. Partway through the 19th Century this changed though not all at the same time. By the 20th Century all coins were minted with the same axis alignment as medals. That's what those symbols ↑↓ and ↑↑ signify in the Spink catalogue - to tell you which alignment.

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He must do - every time he looks at the Vatican

Ah, the "L over I" variety! What's that in Spink...?

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On the other hand, while I wouldn't pay £424 either, there is a phenomenal difference in scarcity between VF (or sub-EF) examples, and genuine EF or better. My own example (MUST upgrade!) is definitely sub-EF :

and if you go to 11mins 15 secs that is where it is Thanks for that! A truly fascinating piece, and stuff there I didn't know about the original designs for the decimal coins. (The second part of the piece is at 25:20 for those who want to save searching through).

Hahaha - I know what LMAO stands for ... but LMIO ???

I have just finished my fourth Picture Book for children...does that count? Been completing the illustrations in the small hours, the only time I've got for such things; very nearly ready to pack them all off to the big guns! The Pumpy Grottum has turned out to be one of my favourite characters, with 'Moley and the Treetop Cafe' my favourite story! It's good to hear about life outside collecting! I didn't know you were a kids' book illustrator Stuart? Perhaps we should ask Chris to set up a new forum, "What We Do When We're Not Collecting". I'm an amateur photographer but the members of that forum are far more talented than I, so I'm a bit shy there (no, no, really..). As we're talking about life outside coins and outside coin books, I'll mention that I too have written a children's book, entitled 'A Calamity of Clutterbucks', including the illustrations. But getting it mainstream published is another matter. I also help my other half with self publishing her poetry books - I do the 'typesetting' and cover designs etc. - she does the poetic stuff. Otherwise, I have an old Volvo P1800 that takes time and money on a grand scale to keep running, a garden that takes too much time and I play a Surdo (big bass drum) in a Samba band. My other great interest is songwriting, for which I have a Yamaha Motif synthesiser - so far 9 written and just one to go before I find a singer and go to the local studio to record them. We could start a Writers forum within Predecimal! And considering that mine host is a publisher...

Oh, I've finished it three times already - it will soon be time for the 4th revision.

Damn, no I missed it. I don't watch The One Show usually - don't suppose it's on YouTube is it? Wait one goldarn cotton-pickin' moment - there's always the BBC iPlayer! Was it early, mid- or late in the half hour? (I just lost the will to live trawling through the iPlayer 1 minute at a time, stuff on autism, Lord Rodgers architect, Romeo & Juliet, and basking sharks, but NOTHING on the 50p, unless it lasted for well under 1 minute )

I'd say natural - I've seen any number of 1826 and 1827 halfpennies that exact colour (like my own 1827 for example )

i didnt know that...how does that compare with me loading a cd into my itunes library i wonder? i regularly talk with my local coin dealer about lots in up and coming auctions , no matter how much i talk to him, im never going to beat him if he has a sell-onto client who wants that piece.....at any price. be a shame when big bro stops us from talking to each other on our hobby and our potential purchases. I think that's also a grey area, but as the record company already ripped you off handsomely for the cost of the CD (peanuts to produce), and as they don't sell downloads by and large, they're not going to get their knickers in a twist over you 'ripping' it to iTunes.

Fingers crossed for you Stuart - I'm also a (barely) published writer, with lots of letters, some magazine articles, a couple of pieces for an avant-garde press, and a novel that got 'long-listed' for an Unpublished Novel competition a few years back. So I know what that particular battleground is like, and I wish you every success

Aren't four of those the same thing? Still, there's always fishing...

I have just finished my fourth Picture Book for children...does that count? Been completing the illustrations in the small hours, the only time I've got for such things; very nearly ready to pack them all off to the big guns! The Pumpy Grottum has turned out to be one of my favourite characters, with 'Moley and the Treetop Cafe' my favourite story! It's good to hear about life outside collecting! I didn't know you were a kids' book illustrator Stuart? Perhaps we should ask Chris to set up a new forum, "What We Do When We're Not Collecting". I'm an amateur photographer but the members of that forum are far more talented than I, so I'm a bit shy there (no, no, really..).

Isn't that what sniping is? You don't have to use a sniping tool!Fair enough - I'm a sniper too then. [whine of bullet overhead] this is like one of those old gce questions.my answer would be fred and jim......... and if that aint right its 37 miles in 45 minutes Wrong - the answer is "third party with more money than sense waltzes in and gets both lots" True, true! But it's still technically illegal, like copying a DVD you bought to your own computer

I often wonder myself how often we have bidded against each other in various auctions. Whats your ebay name Peter? You can PM if you don't wish to divulgeMost of us snipe though, don't we? So knowing user names won't help????? Nope. If I want the coin I'm there, 7 seconds to go...

Heads I buy the beers, tails you do!

Hi If it was a brockage (genuine mistake caused at the Mint and unnoticed) the coin would have a monetary value - not riches everlasting! but there are collectors for such things. A brockage is caused by a previous coin sticking to the die and impressing a mirror image of itself onto the next blank coin. You've taken a picture with one side in a mirror, so I had to do a bit of mental recalculation... it looks as though yours is two normal reverses. That's done by someone splitting 2 coins and joining two identical halves together. The milled edge on yours looks a bit suspect - is there evidence of a join there? Or it may be just inside the rim, between the beading and the rim itself. Such machine tooled coins are interesting curios but have little value.

Bother. So am I allowed just to tell everyone that they mustn't bid on any Charles I shillings ever again instead? I hear and I obey

Proving it is the difficult part. Let's say (hypothetically of course) a tiny group of dealer/collectors met up before an auction, at the premises of one of said dealers, and discuss the sale. (not illegal) they compare notes as to the lots (not illegal) they tell each other what they are particularly interested in and will probably bid on(not illegal) Fred says to Jim "We're both after Lots 21 and 22. You seem more interested in 22 while I'm more interested in 21. Tell you what, let's each not bid against the other?"(technically a grey area, but who's going to know?)

By that logic they would have to disregard the majority of overdates and legends repunched. Not if they find it and decide it's an unrecorded variety = more value LOL, true.

For fffff...Bugger! Perhaps the 4 of us should email our top bids to a 3rd party, and the highest genuine bid goes forth, whilst the others bow gracefully out...no point in the winning bidder paying over the odds, eh? I'm interested in 2 of the lizzies - one to keep, one to sell! That, technically, is called a 'ring' and afaik it's illegal!