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England? Twere'nt bad, I enjoyed it! Sad that Scotland aren't in the frame, it would be great for the overall competition to have them in the mix! Really glad you're enjoying the coins, good on your grandad that he's shared this all with you!

Totally agree! I'd definitely start from both ends with a penny collection!

Welcome aboard, Jim! Always good to get some new blood on here. There are plenty of Victoria Bronze AND silver specialists frequenting the forum corridors so, once you've clarified further, you'll have no shortage of people wanting to discuss and advise! Enjoy the ride!

Nor I! I might possibly buy a pint, but I'd be as burdened as a pack horse when doing so!

I could back money on it! Maybe that's what I should do in future, get a bet placed with William Hill to cover the overspend?

Maybe I'm just unlucky with the Spink's guide then as, whenever I see something at auction that I really want, just for me, which isn't often, it always sails WAY over the Spink guide!

Just as a point of interest, I wonder where Spink's is gathering its data from to catalogue the Low-Tide Penny at £175 EF and £325 UNC?

I've sold three now in excess of £200, and a couple just under, I think they are more popular than people give them credit for! Here's the last one I sold! http://george-coins.co.uk/UNCAU-Edward-VII-LOW-TIDE-1902-Penny-P3139016.aspx

Not bad considering it's not even a sixpence OR milled! It's difficult to have sympathy for someone who blindly bids on eBay coins without even the basic read-around to distinguish denomination and differences between hammered and milled! Even though it's a pewter coin, it's still a reasonable representation of type, ie a 'hammered' threepence! Interestingly, about three months ago, I got my second warning from eBay for 'unsolicited emails' when I sent a polite and, what I thought, helpful link to a genuine example of type (not one of mine, I hasten to add). After my previous (dog cage) suspended sentence from eBay, I now just race in there, grab what I can, and get out, knowing I'll need a good shower to rid myself of the dirt afterwards! Edit: just realised Dave's and Peter's coins aren't the same...hence ' not bad' I was referring to £58 for the pewter 3D...terrible isn't it? I just paid less for a really nice genuine Rose/Cross-Crosslet penny! (glad Rob only paid it a passing glance!)

You'll of course never know the depths and good-naturedness of this forum that I have come to personally experience but, suffice it to say, a more decent bunch of good chaps (and occasional chapesses), you will never find!It's unlike any other forum I've visited! Edit: it's unlike any other societal experience full-stop!

My instinct would be that, due to the small size of the punch, weak strike would be a rarity in itself, especially when you see how the strike affects the reverse? Far more likely that high-grade host coins have good countermarks, unless of course the punch gets extremely worn, which of course has no bearing on grade (only eye-appeal)!

And that is another damned good reason for collecting in that area! Hammered also photographs as easily as copper and bronze, though!

I think it's all relative, because we ALL know the importance of eye-appeal! The countermarks are certainly graded but, more important? I'd say equally so!

Tch, what a cheek! I ask you! 310767665988

When you mentioned treasure hunter, south coast, and association in the same breath, I assumed you meant the 'Association' wreck! Oh, dear!

This is getting banded around a lot but I do not actually think he did. From what I understand he might have actually been present and robbed rather than unattended, but I could be wrong. Ahh, right, sincerest apologies, in which case, I've totally misunderstood the situation! All the more stressful for Lloyd then!I wonder if it makes it any easier that it was 'just' stock, rather than a carefully compiled private collection? I hope so!

Whats the W3?Sorry, Asumel, William III

Just to add...most the Association coins were W3 though, weren't they? Agreed re the piece of 8 coins, very attractive! Were they your own coins P & TG? Very nice if they were!

My every sympathy goes out to Lloyd, it must be terrible to experience that! I just can't get over the fact he left the stock unattended in the car though?I've always hated transporting my own coins around, because even stopping to pick up a pint of milk at the garage has me ladened like a mule to do so! The number of occasions where we've (my wife and I) sacrificed doing something together, because the other has to wait patiently in the car with the locks down, is beyond counting! Poor Lloyd though!

The submitter could well be the TPGC itself? You know how CGS love to rattle out those mint state 1967 pennies!

I 100% know what you're saying, Rob, but there are just some things in life that you either elect to do, or not do, as the case may be, regardless of the financial rewards! I can think of a couple of totally above-board things I could've done over the years, and could still do, to improve my own financial status, but choose not to live a parasitic life!Oh, man, these TPGC's have really got me unusually twisted...I need wine! Sorry, more wine!

My set-up is by all accounts overkill, and was around £700! I think the body, if that's the correct term, is about the cheapest SLR on the market...I wanted it to slap a big macro lens on, which cost more than the body, and that was second-hand too! To be fair it is definitely overkill, as I only use around 1% of its features, and don't truly understand the ones I use!

That is just hilarious, sad in fact!

Crikey, I don't think I could even leave £50k unattended in a car, it would be too life changing to lose them! I would expect that some coins will soon turn up, and the light-fingered one/ones be brought to bear! I hope it works out OK for Lloyd! Something else to think on. Some friends of ours recently bought a car that turned out to be stolen...car taken away, no money returned! You've got to feel sorry for any out there who may now be buying stolen coins inadvertently, and having to ultimately forfeit the coin AND most likely their money! We'll have to get the list up soon!

I've not read through all the above thoroughly, but it only takes an arse like Liam Gallagher to suddenly think 'I want to be a falconer' or 'I'm going to buy medieval gold' (because he's just watched a new movie), and hundred's of thousands can be spent without any concern, research, OR care! London 'Art' Galleries, and Designer outlets depend upon said human behaviour!