Peckris

Here's my 1949 sharp edge (blow up of a JPEG of an original lifesize scan, so it could look a lot better, e.g. none of the lustre shows up).

Thanks. It seems you can only "View item" on the last five. But that's enough to show what a priceless numpty (to borrow Dave's word) each buyer is. On Page 3, one of them even says "I give positive feedback, although I didn't received whah I bought." :lol:

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4 options All feedback feedback from buyers feedback from sellers feedback left for others. Thanks for that (and Debbie) I would line up his buyers (and tom) Get a nice 10 lb cod and give their chops a nice slapping. Geez, this numpty again. I wonder if he's actually buying from himself, no One in their right mind World buy at his grade and prices. Still ashamed to say he's from Dundee He has a Festival of britain at ONLY £150, fecking bargain if you ask me Not such a daft idea. It may seem worth it to him to lose fees and commission, purely in order to build up a high feedback score.. then he can use that as a jumping off point to snare future newbies with too much money, not enough sense, and WAY too much trust. Ah, but his is the 1951 "proof", and as we all know, the 1951 is technically only proofLIKE - unless it comes from the proof set of course, in which case it is.. wait for it, wait for it.. absolutely identical to the prooflike.

Well done. I should really pull my finger out and get a decent 1948 (don't care about the edge type) - it's a nasty gap in my collection. FWIW my AEF 1949 is the sharp edged variety, but it's not going spare! (Though I'd happily swap it for a similar round edge example as I don't care about the edge distinction - however if the 1949 sharp edge is notably scarcer I would probably hope to swap mine for a better example of the rounded edge).

Oops. I clicked the links beneath that crown, instead of the button at the top that says "View my other items". Ok, that brought up all his stuff, but here's the problem: I wanted to find all his Sold items. But... 1. the normal Advanced Search doesn't allow you to put a seller's name in 2. if you do an Advanced Search from his list, the best you can get is a list of Completed listings and the largest timespan you can search on is the Last 15 days. (Which was interesting, in that 4 pages of BINs - 50 per page - only showed 2 sales! so how he pays for his listings is anyone's guess). How do you get a list of only Sold items for a particular seller? How, for example, did you get to see his Anne 1711?

Yes, that crown price and grade is pretty unbelievable, and so is the feedback of 100% !!! I can only think he/she doesn't usually sell coins on eBay but has loads of other kinds of stuff. Unfortunately there is no way to check because if you click any of the "View my other items" links it brings up a window saying there's no items currently in auction or wherever.

Hire her as your cleaner? (Lock your coins away first )

Hi at all! Unfortunately that link does not work any more. Does anybody of you have a copy of that pdf, still? So, please share that one once again. This article seems to be very interesting and I would like to include the citation into the literature section of my documentation. Many thanks!! Christoph The link doesn't work for me either, and I was the one who uploaded it! And after a computer disaster in January I've lost a few months of data including the scans I made of the articles. My scanner doesn't work with my latest computer so I can't re-do them. So if anyone has kept their download I too would be very grateful.

The 'specimen sets' (brightly coloured holders; available from Post Offices for around £20) could be ok. However, the proof sets are hugely overpriced by the Royal Mint and can generally be got a year or three later at auctions for less than half their original issue price.

I'd concur - VF money would be my bet, perhaps a little bit more. The hairlines may not look so bad in hand, after all the coin is greatly magnified.

Where are you getting the shield from? I can't see it. Nor any design elements at all.

Unlike a "roast beef" tax in this country

It's almost possible to comprehend why someone could confuse 'lustre' with 'polished'. Probably only 20 points off an IQ assessment for that. But to describe it as 'uncirculated'.....? ...rather than "Worn to f*@!"

Just a pity there isn't a cut-down version of the Standard Catalogue which we could buy for - say £10 - and download to our computers.

Commonly but incorrectly. Technically an evasion has some legend alteration so that it stands out from the official coinage,eg "GEORGE RULES" This is certainly a contemporary forgery halfpenny based on the mint dies. Well, a date of 1776 would certainly qualify as an evasion, then! Sounds more like an evacuation! Not so much evasion as exlaxasion

Commonly but incorrectly. Technically an evasion has some legend alteration so that it stands out from the official coinage,eg "GEORGE RULES" This is certainly a contemporary forgery halfpenny based on the mint dies. Well, a date of 1776 would certainly qualify as an evasion, then!

No. Spink make it quite clear in their catalogue that the prices quoted for UNC copper/bronze is "with full mint lustre". £150 for a BU 1895 halfpenny? Ye gods. Even Spink's £70 is going some. It's nowhere near as scarce as even the second issue penny.

Port and kippers? Euwww. Peck you should go for it.Everything cancels out for an afternoon lovefest.

£45 in F according to Spink 2005. It can't have gone up that much! That link doesn't work (Strangely, this Reply shows it beginning "http", but the actual post has some gunk in front of that, including "newtab". Weird, or what?) Wow, your edit must have gone through the instant I clicked Add Reply! Thanks, Paul! A damaged/spiked and nastily cleaned one too, a very lucky Monsieur would get £45 in 2012! Oh that's perfectly normal apparently

£45 in F according to Spink 2005. It can't have gone up that much! That link doesn't work (Strangely, this Reply shows it beginning "http", but the actual post has some gunk in front of that, including "newtab". Weird, or what?) Wow, your edit must have gone through the instant I clicked Add Reply!

One of our members, scott, is interested in foreign coins of all types, so he may run his eye over those, though they may be too modern for him. (I know little or nothing about them). The UK coins are not worth anything except face value really. The 2008 20p MAY (but probably not) be the undated 'mule' type - but if you already see it's 2008, then it isn't (if that doesn't sound Irish). Your worn coppers are most likely to be George III halfpennies - the date on the second will be 1775, the last year of mintage of that particular series. Of no value but historically interesting. If the first one that you can't read the date on, has the bust facing in the opposite direction to the second, then it's George II. Hope you rekindle an interest in coins. You will see from all the discussions here, it's a fascinating hobby Oh I almost forgot - gold prices are quite high now. Depending on grade, your 1913 half sov is worth AT LEAST bullion value, maybe more.

A reasonably high grade example (AEF): http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/1915-LARGE-BRONZE-PENNY-King-GEORGE-V-GREAT-BRITAIN-/390474845484?pt=US_World_Coins&hash=item5aea1d4d2c#ht_3123wt_932

1926 halfcrowns suffered a similar fate with the No Colon variety, as I recall! Also 1961 halfcrowns "E.F. designer initials missing reverse" - I bought an example of this in 1978, but at no great premium, so I'm not downcast! However, there are clear cut 'no stop' varieties which aren't blocked dies - the 1787 shilling comes to mind.