Nick

Something a bit more colourful.

Next up; a nice peripheral toning sixpence.

First my avatar coin:

Thanks. That would be great.

It's very amusing this comment because i know certain individuals who buy top quality coins that have been cleaned or polished, they then use their own "secret recipe" to tone these coins - you should see the results they are astonishing!! These coins regularly end up slabbed with very high grades attributed to them and lets just say I have seen these coins slabbed by every coin grading company including one in England ;-) the toning is so good it would fool anyone unless you had seen them regularly!!! Therefore this American collector has probably actually bought some of these artificially toned coins and seems he is very happy with them ;-) Can you point us at an example, Neil?

Yes. GaryD took the opportunity to become the 1000th member a while back and I think uses one id for home, the other the work.

It is worth draping a non-reflective (black) piece of cloth behind the glass as this stops light reflecting from the back of the glass into the camera which reduces contrast. It is also common to block the direct path of the light to the subject coin.

They are intended to be like that (coin die rotation).

Really. If there is one in me, it'll only be there because I've eaten it.

Obverse isn't even EF, reverse is better though.Cleaned/dipped perhaps also I wouldn't grade either side as EF, tons of wear in the centre of the reverse ... The centre of the reverse is quite often weak on this design. Here's a high grade example with similar weakness.

Obverse isn't even EF, reverse is better though.Cleaned/dipped perhaps also The obverse looks dipped, the reverse less so. Perhaps, dipped a long while back and now re-toning.

Obverse isn't even EF, reverse is better though.

Hahaha - I know what LMAO stands for ... but LMIO ??? How about Laugh Myself Inside Out.

They are all slightly different, but behave in a similar fashion. I've just tried it with Firefox (v24.0) and I can "Save Image As..." by right clicking the image (when expanded).

I'm guessing you'd lose a lot of the resolution though, wouldn't you? Yes, but it's better than nothing. Really? That's strange. On Macs you can capture an on-screen image and you lose none of the resolution. (None of the DISPLAYED resolution that is - if the displayed image is 300ppi then yes, you'd lose that, but since the images on eBay are for records only, you wouldn't them any higher than your monitor can display anyway. In other words, 72 or 90 ppi will remain 72 or 90 ppi forever, however many times you capture it with a screenprint.) It is input resolution that is potentially lost, not output resolution (which is by definition fixed by the display). As an example, if you have an image that is four times the width and height of your screen (in pixels) then to display it full screen, only 1/16 of the total pixels are used to generate that image. A screenshot will therefore lose 15/16ths of the available data - therefore resolution has been lost.

I'm guessing you'd lose a lot of the resolution though, wouldn't you? Yes, but it's better than nothing.

Well I'd normally use Chrome's 'View Source' tool but there is an extension you can install with Chrome (the internet browser) called 'Allow Right-Click'. However, on this occasion, I did not need to do either on Chrome or, I checked, Internet Explorer. I use Chrome also, but in this case I could right click on the images and save to file without any trickery. Worked in IE and Firefox too. Auctiva images are a little more tricky, but you can use "View Page Source" or "Inspect Element" in Chrome to get at the images.

It bears a passing resemblance to a Victorian florin, but it's definitely one for the scrap dealer.

This is the coin that disappeared. How do you copy or save the image on these listings? Right clicking doesn't give copy as an option and I need these images for my records. Thanks. Which listing do you want the images for? I can extract them and send them to you, if you like.

I can only guess at the post-1816 silver. 1) High points look a little bright. If not cleaned, might scrape a 70, but 60-65 is more likely. 2) A bit of general wear. Should get a 60. 6) Doesn't look great. Perhaps 40-45.

Might have something to do with Stuart's use of 'moody' which is a London slang word for suspicious or not genuine. Can't be Nick, as we were talking about 2 different sellers. Stuart was talking about coinageofengland a coin, whereas it was Platts that was taken off I misunderstood. I thought it was coinageofengland that had removed his coin.

Might have something to do with Stuart's use of 'moody' which is a London slang word for suspicious or not genuine.

I remember I also had great problems with editing when I was new to the Forum, but now it is easy. So perhaps the edit period is variable based upon the number of posts? I'll see if I can time how long edit is available for me with this reply. Edit: Still available after 1 hour 38 minutes.

St James's use Baldwin's for their auctions. I've always received invoices from them by post and they are not the quickest by any stretch.

After you have replied to a post, an edit button appears at the bottom right of your post, but only for a certain period of time (not sure how long).