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My betting (I hope it's not true) is that he will not post it, will claim that he did, will refund your £7, then quietly rephotograph and relist in a few months.

Yes you did! I'm just surprised that Colin Cooke hadn't spotted what it was. Either that or they were having an off day.

Perhaps, to link those two posts, the photographer of the second is to be the official photographer of William and Kate's bash? By the way, I own a gilded 1977 crown, even LESS desirable! I just got a beautiful high grade 1907 farthing that some kind soul has gilded. I suppose I could list it on ebay as "Possible gold proof Edward Farthing" and start at £1000? Oh yes - the "I've got a half sov here, guv" hopefuls of the Edwardian era Many a lovely farthing spoiled by that tactic I do have two high grade George IV farthings - one is evenly gilded but slightly dull in appearance, the other has a glorious lustrous sheen, but sadly the central portions have rubbed off leaving the underlying purple.

......you may have to wait some time, their in decline in uk wetlands. ccgb2010 is priced at six guineas, do the same tax rules apply to guineas, were they ever used for currency? In the Great Recoinage they were replaced by the Sovereign so they are not legal tender as far as I'm aware. However, people still called 21 shillings a Guinea and this makes it £1.05 today, so times that by 6 for 6 Guineas and that gives you £6.30, the price of the book. It was used as legal tender originally being equal to 20 shillings but then increasing in the late 1600s (I think) to 21 until 1816 of course. I don't think they have the same tax rules. Sion Tell that to those awfully nice chaps who organise horse races!

Perhaps, to link those two posts, the photographer of the second is to be the official photographer of William and Kate's bash? By the way, I own a gilded 1977 crown, even LESS desirable!

Em an Arab tae, originally a whitfield boy but moved tae Lochee I'm quarter Lebanese... does that count? Only if I can score some of it

I've always thought he had an unfortunate name... Probably why, when I was at school, he was called Canute Or maybe that was just so's schoolboys could say "pissed as a caNute"

Is it my imagination, or is she described as VICTORIA 1 ? (Which strictly speaking, she was, of course..)

Yes that's true. But since I was already a dab hand with FileMaker, it made sense - when I made scans of my coins - to put them into a FM table rather than dump 'em into some folder (and the FM table is password protected too).

a prime example being the 1940 Single Exergue line penny... when was the last time I saw one of these sell for 'only' £40?! Last year, when i bought one from Colin Cookes for 30 quid in BU....oooh did i say BU, maybe its UNC, i don't know any more I think they must have mis-identified it az - it was the late great Colin Cooke himself who told me in the mid-90s that he'd not seen one for five years and it wouldn't sell for "less than £20". My own cost me about £5 in 1978 (a great year for buying!) but they weren't classifying it back then It was certainly about before then. I remember it back to the 1960s but it's never really had any official standing which makes me think it's a comparatively recent phenomenon. I wonder if an (even) older coiny than me has any recollection? Seaby's 10th Ed (1960) jumps straight from Unc to FDC. Whereas Elizabeth Gilzean's 'Coins - A Collector's Guide' (1968) mentions 75% EF, UNC (bag marks but nowt else), BU and then 100% FDC (perfect mint state) so I'm wondering if it slipped into common usage somewhere in between the two dates? By 1970 when Finn & Dowle's Coins For Pleasure and Investment was published they state that Unc is a modern term and means a coin that is perfect to the naked eye and that BU is only really useful when referring to copper or bronze. Interestingly they refer to FDC as an alternative to Unc. All a bit imprecise it seem to me! BU was in common use by 1968 when I first started to buy Coin Monthly.

11 votes for 20 sites or fewer 4 votes for over 50 sites Very little in between those I guess that proves it then : you're either a total obsessive, or you're not!

You have an Access table (file) of pictures with an associated unique Coin ID for each picture. You also store that same unique ID against each coin in your main table. Finally, you establish a relationship between the two tables based on Coin ID, and simply set up a picture field that brings in the relevant picture based on the relationship. It sounds more complicated to explain than to set up. Yes - the more RAM you have, the less the problem will manifest, but Excel itself probably has an overhead position where it will start to slow down on very large files, but I have absolutely no idea what that size is.

Or you could just toss it in your salad Toss what?

No no, I definitely haven't! I was just puzzled by your conflicting message.

I have also noticed this quote in Spink, but surely if a coin is UNC whether full lustre or not it merits UNC price. If a coin is toned, does that mean Spink says its EF? Not getting that part at all. Also how many bunheads have we seen in what spink would then regard as ture UNC which would mean with full lustre. Sorry but i must laugh at that quote It's quite simple I believe. Spink don't list BU as a grade, but for BRONZE COINS ONLY they make the distinction that when they list a price, it's for UNC + FULL LUSTRE, hence the footnote. For all other coins, gold, silver, copper - UNC simply means UNC, and lustre is somewhat irrespective. Though Spink might regard any coin with only part lustre, as AUNC. However, beautifully toned silver coins, that have no wear, are something else again. They have always been rated higher than untoned specimens, so for those, you would expect a premium over Spink's price. Sorry, did I say it was simple?

Welcome to godhood scott

I'm trying to understand your message - you say you've seen one, then you say you haven't!

Not only that, the program will slow down exponentially once the file size goes over a certain size. This is the great advantage of databases. You can have a related table of pictures and just set up a relationship between the coins table and the pictures table, and when you open the coins file, you can see the pictures without even having to open that file. I know you're right and I appreciate there are technically better solutions. One day I might move over to a database with tables as you suggest. However, yesterday I spent time putting my early Victorian copper pennies into the new spreadsheet, with obv & rev pics for each, and I have to say I'm really pleased with the result. I set the size of each 'comment' image at 12cm x 12cm and, with 1200dpi resolution, each image file is around 300k. This is larger than needed but means I have a hi-res version of the image available too. I haven't experienced any slowing down but, if in future I do, I'll simply split the spreadsheet into sections. It might sound complicated Rob, but once you've done a few it takes literally seconds to add each image. The much longer task is the scanning! The good news is that database managers such as Access or FileMaker will both import Excel spreadsheets into a table once you've defined the fields. So none of your XL work will be wasted.

Oh come on! Haven't you heard of the '1914 missing toenail' or '1917 cauliflower ear'? Clearly you've not been paying attention. Damn! How could I have forgotten those? I say, you don't have a duplicate 1914TN you could sell me?

Two options, soak it in olive oil for a year or two or try soaking in contact oil such as this oil other than that sell it as it is! Or if you don't mind making the penny quite a lot paler, you could soak overnight in balsamic vinegar to deal with the worst of the green, then soak it in olive oil for a good period (probably weeks, even months)

Ludicrous. If this is a genuine phenomenon then it's worth having any coin slabbed we're intending to sell, just to boost its price. Pffft. I just hope the bubble (forgive the pun) bursts, and soon.

Either that's a typo or you just made a brilliant pun! (I'd claim the pun if I were you ) Indeed, a complete about-face

Not only that, the program will slow down exponentially once the file size goes over a certain size. This is the great advantage of databases. You can have a related table of pictures and just set up a relationship between the coins table and the pictures table, and when you open the coins file, you can see the pictures without even having to open that file.

"Angel Dust" ... or is that PCP?

George V pennies seem to be going that way of late!!!! David Yes, I'd like to nominate 1914 and 1917 as the only two years there aren't varieties for (yet..), before 1927