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Goddards contains uric acid rather than sulphuric acid if I remember right.

You mean ma'a salaama ?

Somewhere in the region of VF but though it might attract bidders, you wouldn't get much and it wouldn't repay the effort in time and outlay.

That series is fraught with danger - contemporary forgeries of all silver denominations, usually silver-washed copper. But don't despair - seuk is fast becoming recognised as THE expert on them! (However, the non-contemporary Chinese fakes are much more worrying and harder to spot )

Hi Azda Yes it has arrived. We spoke about it in Goom's "just an idea" thread, http://www.predecimal.com/forum/topic/8314-just-an-idea/page-2 cheers Garrett. I thought this was the "Nothing to do with coins" forum?

The 1921 shilling also has both obverse varieties, but the earlier type is much rarer - don't be misled by Spink who don't seem to realise this simple fact.

Thanks for posting some pictures - that gives us a more realistic idea of the collection. If I may give some feedback, without offence? 1. The 'poor quality' examples are worth scrap value only I'm afraid. 2. The 1950 and 1951 - while by no means rare - always sell well, and could be sold via eBay 3. Neither 1932 is good enough for serious collectors, but the better one could go on eBay at 99c start 4. There are collectors for the 1861 varieties, so that might also be best disposed of on eBay 5. The 'ordinary' 1926 penny is not so key as you might think - and having a large number of them is really not attractive!! Dribbling them onto eBay a few at a time, might be the best way to go in the end To be honest, from what I can see, there isn't anything there that would attract a serious collector. A casual collector would also be put off by there being multiples of some dates. You might find that either putting the entire lot into an auction and seeing how they fare, or selling the whole lot to a dealer, may be the way forward.

...probably just collectors having a laugh, wanting to see what happens to this "penny"

No, I guess not right next to each other, but only a yard or so apart and the coins are in an album. Would that make that much difference? After all, the atmosphere and its impurities in which they both live is much the same. If the coins are in flips, in the album, then they're protected to a great extent from the atmospheric conditions which the frame is exposed to.

You're suggesting Gerrard is secretly in the pay of the Uruguayans? Well, I suppose if George W Bush organised 9/11, anything's possible...

Suarez is a racist himself Not so. It's not racist for a Liverpool player to insult a ManU player. Suarez gets on perfectly with all his team-mates, whether that be Sturridge or Flanagan, Sterling or Gerrard, Johnson or Mignolet, Sakho or Skrtl.

As Peter says, why not photograph a few of your best pieces? But as Peter also says, Fine is a non-starter for collectors of British pennies post-1887. They would want them VF+ minimum, and EF+ for 20th Century. (That's British VF and EF, by the way, not North American). However, if you really want someone to call round and view the coins in person, then I'd recommend you find a coin forum based within 100 miles of your home. Otherwise, an international forum like this one, means your collection will be 'cherry picked' for its best pieces. That's just the way it is I'm afraid.

Azda, Accepted, thank you, with no hard feelings. I don't think its a matter of taking the pound back. The currency of the UK is the pound and if Scotland leaves the UK it can continue to use the pound, as any country can, but what it loses is any control over that currency. That's a simple consequence of independence. There's nothing childish about the government's position on a formal currency union, since it would not be in the UK's interest to enter into one. Obvious really when you look at the state of the eurozone where the currency union has all but failed without political union. It will only work if the Eurozone countries enter into a closer political union, but this is the opposite direction from that being taken by Scotland. That means no currency union with Scotland. Only the bilndly prejudiced or politically dishonest claim otherwise. Doesn't piss me off in the slightest. I'm just surprised that you would post something that is so clearly prejudicial to the Scots, since the underlying view it gives is not a very flattering one. I don't particularly care, but I thought those Scots who like to be regarded as friendly, welcoming and inclusive might have taken exception to the caricature of them that it depicted, especially the underlying grain of truth it contains. Not strictly true. The eurozone was doing fine until the worldwide banking crisis in 2008. Ok, you could argue that it thereby failed its first real test, but it's not inherent to a currency union that political union is necessary before it can work. After all, the currency union was a logical 'next step' given the Common Market that had preceded it was successful for 30 or 40 years.

...plink, ting ting ting ting ting. Oh dear, it seems to have rolled under the table. Let me just.. hmm. No, there's now a filthy great scratch on it, sorry. Heads or tails? Hard to tell. The cat was sick on it and then it picked up a load of fluff. I'm not touching it with a bargepole.

I think - though it needs confirming - that all first obverse coins (i.e. until 1913 2nd type) have a hollow-ish neck, though the genuine 'hollow neck' examples are more pronounced.

...plink, ting ting ting ting ting. Oh dear, it seems to have rolled under the table. Let me just.. hmm. No, there's now a filthy great scratch on it, sorry.

When you say "right next to them", do you mean that literally? The photo frame is stored along with the coins? If 'yes', then I'm as much in the dark as you are, but if you mean 'next to the cabinet / trays / albums (or wherever the coins are)' then the answer would be - atmospheric conditions, from which coins, properly stored, are comparatively free.

Well this is largely a UK coin forum, though we do have a few honourable members from the States and Australia. However, there may be buyers here for some of your coins but I would say to you first : condition is everything. Even rare dates in poor condition wouldn't get much attention. And for that reason we'd have to see pictures before expressing any kind of interest. If you can guide us to a website or wherever you host such pictures, that would be spiffing.

Will someone please explain to Dave the difference between racism and xenophobia? You can't be racist just because you insult a 'foreigner'. White Englishman insults white Frenchman : xenophobia White Englishman insults Algerian living in France : racism White Englishman insults his next-door neighbour, Englishman of Jamaican origin : racism. It's not difficult. Just because someone is a foreigner doesn't mean they're a different race than you are.

Have you read the reviews? "My wife is a small frame but she has a bit of a pooch" A chihuahua? A shitzu? Mrs Slocombe's second cousin?

England weren't good, but they weren't as bad as portrayed either. We played better than Spain (which isn't saying a lot), and there are a lot of very tricky so-called 'lesser' teams in this tournament - perm any from Algeria, Costa Rica, Columbia, Uruguay, Australia .. the list goes on. It's very hard to consistently win international matches these days, unless your name is Germany or Spain '08 - '12. Anyway, we didn't lose to Uruguay. We lost to Luis Suarez, who scored two brilliant opportunistic goals that few other strikers would have got. Apart from him, we were better than them in most departments, but they - as is so often the case with England - had the bigger point to make and a bigger appetite for the game and more determination and fight to win.

I've never had a problem with PayPal so far, touch wood.

But that goal by Cahill was something, wasn't it?

What odds did you get on Chile, Peter?

Definitely GVF minimum. There is very very little observable wear, and remember this is a sixpence shown at three times life size or even more.