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Well done you for getting to uni, and covering off the home essays/assignments/reading with two kids on board! There were a couple of women in my cohort who had kids at the time...amazing!

No, not at all. Can you be more specific?Mark Sorry, design software for the site! Is it a drag n drop design with integral shopping cart provided by the host? Or is it bespoke, dream weaver, or home-built with HTML etc?

That is a nicely designed site, Mark...what are you using, if you don't mind me asking?

Link Click on link, get taken by browser directly to webpage.key Command-[ when done, to go back.No link move mouse to beginning of eBay item number, drag through to end and then click Command-C to copykey Command-T to open new tab in browserclick eBay button in browser's bookmark barsign in to 'My eBay' (which is where the button takes me)click in eBay Search field, then key Command-V to paste eBay item number click Searchkey Command-[ 2 or 3 times when done, to go back.You could just paste it directly into the eBay home page, you don't have to sign in.It's a real pain for iPhone uses, as eBay will not let you take a link! It's possible to add links for just about every other webpage you come across, just not the eBay pages for some reason! Really sorry about that, Peck, it does rely on others kindly adding the link, which I myself always do for others if I'm on a PC and have viewed the eBay item in question! It's a nightmare, don't be cross with us poor smartphone users! I still want to join in!

I was still put out to have 2 coins (around the 1k mark each) snubbed! It was quite a shock to have an 'unfortunately' email from them!

You just know what the description's going to read for this one 111286725040

That's a lovely note SM, what date is it? What would a mint one of those cost today?

Welcome aboard, Arthur, I hope you'll stay with us a while! Your clear love of history is precisely what links most of us here on this forum together, regardless of our fields of interest! We have a number of regular US contributors here, who also collect UK/English/Scottish/Irish coinage, so you're not SO far from home. In answer to one of your questions: typically, a low-grade rarity is still a low-grade coin, and doesn't necessarily attract a massive premium...however, there are some exceptions to this rule, where even washers, provided they are identifiable, will command a high price! You'll soon pick up on what they are if you read around the old posts here! To start you off, the 1903 (open 3) penny is always popular!

Nothing like embracing something wholeheartedly, TG! Just out of interest, what's your primary source of reference for your new series? Also, have you located any finer reading that further details the rarities/dies etc.? Comparatively, I would say Spink, North, BCW (if you know what I mean) as major ascending, with BNJ articles, etc. as supplementary.

Could be, Scott? However, as you know, a better (or another) example would need to come to light to confirm??? It would be a relatively easy die to source, I'd think, as the lettering on GVLIELMVS, especially the S, makes it pretty distinctive?You're the man to find it, Scott! You'll have enough W3 copper to cover all the dies at the rate you're going!

That's bizarre! Twists the mind to even fathom how that might've happened!

The Kew coin has just had a plug on Radio 2, telling everyone to look them out! If we'd only know this a couple of weeks ago, we'd all be millionaires, Rodney! Incidentally, what's the story with the rare 2p? What's the latest prices on one of those?

Well done P for getting on the cart early! I can't see how those prices will be maintained for long? surely the decimal market can't soak up the large number of Kews now for sale on eBay, and then continue to hold their price thereafter?

Impossible to keep up with the man, lately!

I think that's the latest edition, isn't it?

That's a reference taken from a book called English Silver Coinage (ESC), CGS use it a fair bit for their referencing! Edit: not sure about which year is the latest edition? But this is the book: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0900652284

That is pretty darn good, I have to say! Are they illegally transporting sheep in the lead boat?

Just a simple observation, and I'm guessing this is how the whole machine works???? Elizabeth I 6d...priced in Spink at £xxx, covering a range of 6d's from the most common type to the rarest! I've noticed good quality, but commoner types falling well below the Spink price guide, yet seen equal grade (but rarer) coins go for £500+ The above factors are the reason Spink's 'guide' valuations sit where they do...at least with the vagarities and rarities of hammered coinage! Not sure why I haven't had that literary expressive eureka moment before?

I'm curious about the coin now being toned after 5 years? I love tone, of course, but I've always had this, maybe misplaced, idea about preserving a coins state, ideally as close to its original form as possible. Certainly, I'd attempt to maintain the state of preservation I received the coin at! It's not a criticism, there are obviously a large number of people who happily keep coins in trays, I just haven't got my head around the 'let them happily tone' zone, yet, and just wondered what the general consensus was on this, and how you feel about a red coin now darkly toned? I'm in the 'preciously' degrease them and seal them up camp, myself! The hammered can sometimes look nicer when a little more greyed, though!

It's great ain't it!

I don't think anyone could disagree with that!

I'm not sure if people on here are generally hung-up about price guides, I think it's just an inquiry into number-crunching and how any given Guide arrives at its number, and why? With the variables of eye-appeal, lustre, etc.etc., I don't see how any guide can provide definitive figures, nor would expect it! I'm pretty sure Chris uses his guide, he must believe in it, surely? However, he would have to take into account all the thing we all do, such as eye-appeal, dings, lustre, etc.

I'll have a go at that, Chris!

Interesting observation that, pokal!