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http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=191273491324 I've sent a nice email to the seller.

Just the usual 191273491324 but love the big-sell description, packed full of numismatic terminology!

The flips are standard, and fit into boxes OR wallets. The holes in the flips handle very small, right up to crown!

You're off the hook, Colin, you're not the last...belated birthday wishes BCC!

All I can say is you've struck your first little piece of gold in finding this forum! Read around it and you'll see what a top class bunch of chaps et al. are on here! Stuff you will never find in books, nor discover from 'experts' in the field out there, typically TPGCo's, will be intelligently represented on here! I've always thought George V to be numismatically diverse and interesting, and a good place to cut your teeth! Welcome aboard! You'll make lots of mistakes, just don't make them expensive ones!

Many thanks, gents! A hammered copy, then, great! I keep meaning to catch Dave at one of the fairs, we've communicated a fair bit in the past re his 3d project/collection!

What type of copy is it, has anyone handled one? Edge seams? Thick? Weight?

Yes, I've also seen numerous coins with legends like your's, where everything appears intact, except a small doubled section! Double-struck, with no added premium for that, unfortunately!

Tell me again...how beautiful is life? ?

That sounds pretty amazing, BG, I'd heard the canadian one was coming over for a spell!8 merlins roaring by, likely 10 with the Spit and Hurricane, makes my stomach roll over just to think of it? My favourite planes of all! Flying a Spit was what got me into flying, awesome! You're going to have to have me and Declan over next year, we can split the travel costs!

So was I, Stu!Ah, there it is! I searched everywhere, remembering you said this! was a great day, Declan, SO hot...no shelter...thank god for the cider van! I was in a field on the North side of the runway with about 200 other cars. £15 to the farmer to park up, he supplied a burger van and a few portaloos, and the best seats in the house from the comfort of your own car roof.So close you could feel the heat of the afterburners on your face! How very Declan! I did spot a couple of fields with campers in, on the left hand side as you approached the gate, and thought, yeah, that's the way to do it! Exactly what we plan to do next year, strangely enough!

Seeing as it has 'COPY' clearly impressed into the reverse, you'd have to be a blind idiot to buy this for £300. Maybe the seller meant £3? It's a shockingly poor example, surely the seller isn't so lacking in the area to know this!Even my wife instantly filed this as fake! Good girl! X You've been spending too much time talking to the missus. Mine also seems to be increasingly well versed in the minutiae of numismatics. Nerd alert! I must learn to stop wittering on about dies and punches and engravers and mints and catalogues and sales and latest purchases and .............................. great stuff!

Seeing as it has 'COPY' clearly impressed into the reverse, you'd have to be a blind idiot to buy this for £300. Maybe the seller meant £3? It's a shockingly poor example, surely the seller isn't so lacking in the area to know this!Even my wife instantly filed this as fake! Good girl! X

So was I, Stu!Ah, there it is! I searched everywhere, remembering you said this! was a great day, Declan, SO hot...no shelter...thank god for the cider van!

Lovely coin, what a shame about those fields!

An Elderly Couples coin collection of 30 years gone is ripe with expectation! Could go both ways...looking forward to it!

Re roman coins in general, were the flan weights as carefully calculated as they were in, say, the later medieval period, where discrepancies in weight could highlight or, at least raise suspicions, about authenticity? I know you mentioned (Peck) that fakes are not especially an issue for this area, but I was wondering whether there are parameters that roman collectors stay within before going 'hmmmm'?

I couldn't get online, was at the air tattoo in fairford, and I'm wondering whether they were jamming signals as a security measure? Damned annoying though, as I couldn't snipe that Roman Denarius either! After eBay's juice, the seller will only have got around half of what they paid for it! 1602's not an easy date, either!

Will have to check on the date, but within a 12 month I'd say! Better not bid with a george account, then!

Top spot, Dave...man, you're good! I've been watching it from day one! I'd be happy to buy it back! Typical irregular flan of this date, though! Edit: by irregular I mean slightly ovoid!

It's a pinned thread which is a good start! Edit: I think we should definitely put it in members only, though!

Confirmation that the H8 Laker Groat is a cast pewter copy! The dark blue background is the coin I had!

This was my thought exactly as I was reading through this thread!I'd say this group will produce and find out far more information than any 'privileged' minority of coin 'experts' will ever do!

I had an example of a very similar H8 groat, will look at my images when I get in! Bit of a coincidence that all 3 coins are of known fakes, it must be said!

Goom...I know it's the general recommendation to take your time and know your stuff but, in all honesty, the best learning comes from buying some coins and learning from your mistakes! The best advice is choose your target...eg, if you fancy modern milled, don't get big on W4 and Victoria, buy some g5 and 6! Hammered? Don't start with Richard III, buy some Edward pennies! I think you know what I'm saying...buy some coins, you're going to make mistakes, and you have to, in order to have a better understanding for yourself...you can't teach this in words and pictures! Make some mistakes and get onboard, just don't get burnt!