azda

Then maybe Vicky you will like one i purchased recently, 1849 Godless Florin with the 9 very poorly struck, its in the coin aquisition of the week thread, still waiting on it coming though

Dunno what book you are looking at, but the the ESC (English Silver Coinage) book has dies for the 1873 Florin going up to 262 and states they may go higher, so yours will be recorded

Die numbers have really no bearing, only grades.

Yes i've been watching it Russ, you keep dropping it people will be waiting till it goes to a pound mate.

Watch out, he may tickle your hand, do a backflip and stick his finger in his ear and expect you to do your secret handshake to

I'd save it for a rainy day, add to it, and maybe sometime in the future the copper price go higher, but if the wife is not to happy with it at home, then bury it in the back garden but don't forget where it is. How have you got on with the 1901, any takers? anything from Spink?

Is it just my eyes or is the 2nd "I" in BRITANNIAR a 1? Sorry for such a small picture, it was taken off a dealers gallery picture.

Danke. I can now sleep tonight

Got this a while ago and basically have just picked it up and am now wondering which OBV and REV i have.Any help would be great. It has 5 berries with a stem through the centre

Ok, am thinking OBV 5 due to the fact Freemans describes a flaw which is prevelant on the G in REG where there is sometimes a protrusion above the short horizontal bar, which this has and can be seen in my OBV pic. Although i was initially thinking OBV 3 until i read this.

I'll take a look at the OBV and see

Did a little photoshop, dunno if the picture is any better

The G in REG has a spike coming out of it on the OBV. Here's the REV

Also Tom, it does cost extra for the zoom in pix, if you take a good quality picture there would be no need for zoom unless it was a rare coin. I use the macro function on my coins. Look up some of my posts in coin aquisition of the week, you'll see how good a pic you can get with a decent camera. Mine is only an 8M cannon on something like that, but it does take a good picture and i only paid €100 for it, my last suggestion would be to put the coin on a flat surface and not hold it, i take mine against a dark background generally and also in the daylight, natural light is great for making good pictures. Also, putting a reserve price and a buy it now costs you twice, either put one or the other. Sorry, i'm just trying to help and not tell you how to run your auctions, just some advice on saving a few pounds here and there

You learn as you go along 400. Advice from the forum has helped me out a lot, so in turn, i like to help others. I think it would make sense for Russ to slow down and think about the bigger picture, so i hope he can just have a little patience, it could be to his benefit in the long run. Pour me a Pimms 400 old bean

I believe that if you can give as much info about a coin as you can then it can attract more people Good pictures are a must also. I've seen coins with descriptions of "Penny" and that's it, well we can all see that it's a Penny. Might i suggest that you look at other peoples descriptions and work on it from there, this guy (330435532851) a dealer always sells high end stuff, although he has been caught silver dipping them, but his descriptions are always much the same format and he does attract bidders. Also list it international, there is a tick box just after you've added your description on the next page. Timing is also important, Sunday to Sunday is always good, i generally list something either a Sunday morning or a Sunday night. Hope it helps.

Thanks Azda must say you are giving fair advice. So is what you are saying if it turned out to be the error Ebay is not the place?? I just had a look on the site you suggested about grading they do not do error/flaw online, but may be they do it postally. Looks very American,, do you have to post it to US??? Is there no grading in UK? I think I may end up taking it off Ebay. I will try a while. I don't mind if I lose out a bit and someone else gains as at the end of the day I have found a penny that did not cost me a fortune and to someone else it may be an interesting item. You seemed to suggest the other price was far to high. Surely then there is no chance of reaching that kind of money even if authenticated so is it worth the wait??? Sorry for my impatience Russ I'm not saying it's not worth that Russ, it might be if authenticated, then again, if it were authenticated it might be worth more, it could be unique and then it would be worth a hell of a lot more. This is why i think it would be better to get someone to look at it. You could send it off to spink. Go onto their website and maybe send an email with a few pictures of the coin, they might ask you to send it on to them, but as you didn't pay a lot for it, it will be to your benefit if it comes back a genuine error, then you'll be a happy man that you waited.

I really could'nt say Russ, personally i'd get it checked out, then no one could laugh if what you have is a genuine error. That piece of paper you would get would be quite some insurance, then if it were genuine Ebay would'nt be the place for it. Just my opinion, what's a month or so to get it checked out?

Geez, thats some starting price Russ 4K Just spotted it on Ebay

Why not try PCGS and get it encapsulated at the same time, maybe they can work out what it is for you and you'd be killing 2 birds with 1 stone. You'd probably have to point the error, if thats what it actually is, then let them do the legwork

I'd get it researched first Russ, it could be worth much more if verified

You certainly know how to keep us in suspense Russ

Lizzie needs a BIC razor me thinks

And it was a Scottish buyer, very nice indeed. Lets see the object in question :-)

hmmmmmm possibly