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I've had a couple of Japanese sales, no problems! I mostly buy 2, 3, 4 of everything, generally, and then shift on the least of them, it's probably quite a common practice with distance buying, especially with the more anal collectors amongst us!

Das verletzt meine Seiten zu lachen! Ich liebe google Ãœbersetzer! and back.. It does hurt my sides laughing! I love Google Translator! Huh. Disappointingly consistent (The translation back was using Babylon not Google - using Google got exactly the same English unsurprisingly) I was always told babelfish.com was a good translator...it returned this: That hurt my sides laughing! I love google translator!

The whole forum's gone bananas! I think we should all drink 'bottled' water until we can work out what the hell's going on around here? What's your problem. Ask questions and a few brain cells flicker into life in people's heads. If the topic is stimulting enough, a percentage will take it on board. No bottled water required - pah. Anyway, what's going on is a realisation that there are more things in the wider numismatic world than an individual's collecting sphere which is usually restricted on the dubious grounds of not being able to afford to collect something. This is a red herring because most people can't afford to complete the series they are currently working on anyway. Vive la difference. It's all great stuff, some really interesting takes on things recently! Nice 6d, by the way, thank-you!

The whole forum's gone bananas! I think we should all drink 'bottled' water until we can work out what the hell's going on around here?

Ive got last 2 or 3 Collectors Coins GB, same with Coin yearbooks. Guide to Grading British Coins and one Coin monthly yearbook from 1968:) And many Coin News magazines... Now after i read those and this Forum archives, seen thousands of coins on ebay and dealers' websites and spent couple grand on some rubish coins from farthings to sovereigns i decided i like 19th/early 20th century silver the most. That made me realise that i should read more books first. So i need something specific about english silver before i start spending money again Ah, and whats the best place to buy them? eBay? Thanks Dave Grooms book is a good companion to Davies (it comprehensively covers the 20th C)...you can get Dave's book by Private Messaging him directly on here! Davies, P. J. (British Silver Coins Since 1816) you can get from Amazon, or maybe Rob, John, Derek, none for sale on Pre-Decimal though (just checked)!

It's 2nd Issue S2558 (the Martlet PM is the thing you need to be looking at in the very first instance - just before Elizabeth on the obverse). For your ticket it's Bust 3H, and BCW Penny MR-2:a6. North 1988. Around £40 would be OK

I'd say 100% Davies for general English Silver, far superior to ESC, providing you don't want to go back any further than 1816. ESC of course goes back to 1649!

Looks like plenty of lustre! If I was buying on iPhone pictures alone, I'd say I'd take a chance on it being ok! Whether it is or not would require better images! Looks alright to me, though!

That was much better than I was expecting from our Tommy!

I really do fancy having a little play at that myself sometime! I'm going to try and catch Dave Moneyer over the summer if I can, would be an interesting meeting?

I was uploading on Auctiva today and got a message from Java saying my version was not updated and was a security risks (of course). However, following update, I now get a pop-up asking me to block or unblock when uploading images using the Auctiva applet (if this is the right term), and I can't see any facility to 'always allow'...any ideas?

It's BCW Threepence LC-1:c 8/1 variant, so not so common it has to be said! However, it has a nasty clip, which pulls it back a lot. In balance, if it was mine, I wouldn't want to see much less than £100 for it, though you might have to wait some time for a variety collector to spot it. At £80ish 30-day BIN on eBay, I'd say you'd eventually get a bite!

Not even a contemporary copy, looking like that!

Furious! 3 second-hand books delivered from the US today...£8.66 VAT charge, AND £9.00 charged by RM for handling! Firstly, I never realised we paid duty on books and, secondly, does this mean it's impossible to import a book without incurring a Royal Mail Handling Fee of £9.00?

What browser are you using? Chrome!

Sounds like you should pay import duty on your in-laws, Stuart! It takes a day to get to your in-law's place? True enough, it's a 2hr+ round trip, so she generally stays over with her mum (with our son), kills 2 birds with 1 stone...I always get 2 full days to function au naturale when this happens, which is always my most productive time, so covers the fuel costs, mostly! As long as I don't stray down to the local (which I didn't this time)!

Where's that plantain skin, they're bigger? Definitely very cheap, as azda says, would really like to see the obverse of the shilling! The threepence looks to be the rarer 8/1 too...I know it makes no logical numismatic sense, but BCW have cataloged one! Could even be a 9 under the 0 (though difficult to tell from the images), making for a mix of the BCW varieties. They do, of course, also list an 80/79 (much more logical), but your underlying number looks much more 1-like (not that I've been able to tell 1's from 2's recently ). I'll take some more pics and post them up soon. And here they are. Obverse of the shilling and a closeup of the date on the Liz Yes, that's the rarer 8/1 and, reassuringly, a straight 0! Nice grade (apart from the clip) for type...good find!

Pics? Where's the drooling smiley when I want it? And welcome! Yes, come on, where is that drooly emoticon, it would be the most commonly used one on here, accepting the that is? Yes, welcome aboard, atscaper...here's to the next 7 years, and that's just catching up on the info. on here!

Where's that plantain skin, they're bigger? Definitely very cheap, as azda says, would really like to see the obverse of the shilling! The threepence looks to be the rarer 8/1 too...I know it makes no logical numismatic sense, but BCW have cataloged one! Could even be a 9 under the 0 (though difficult to tell from the images), making for a mix of the BCW varieties. They do, of course, also list an 80/79 (much more logical), but your underlying number looks much more 1-like (not that I've been able to tell 1's from 2's recently ).

I'll know more tomorrow about the finer points, as the wife has had to travel to the mother-in-law's to collect them from the PO...she's back tomorrow! I honestly couldn't believe it when she texted it was duty/VAT, I thought the sender had pulled a fast one and not paid full postage!

I'd say that would be very difficult to make a call, based on the images? There does appear to be a 'blob' in the teeth, and a possible die split running down beneath that into the I. Without a better close-up, for me I can only speculate and say a damaged I and curio/research value only.

Precisely. Like this beaten-up example of a common issue. It just happens to be of Lympne mint. That's quite an amusing description 'Saxon silver coin. Message me for more details'...I wonder exactly how much more information he could've added, given he didn't put a great deal of information in the listing to begin with?

eBay's new mailing set-up, that doesn't allow you to just 'send' an email to just one person...they only have 'send and go to next' as an option! Cheeky bar-stewards!

The more I think about it, the more you're right! Sometimes I wonder why I even post such obvious queries. Occasionally/mostly, however, somebody making an obvious statement, will immediately sheds light on the issue! Cheers! Bugger it, then, on the 'Bay as a regular PM1

I was just wondering whether this could be an unrecorded and potentially very unusual mule, what do you all think? There is a mishmash between the I of REGI and the E of ELIZABETH, which is of course home to a privy mark! I'm hoping it's a 2, as the reverse is a '1' on a 1601 dated coin! To me, even the mess, shows components of a two, in particular the upper curve of one, right alongside the I of REGI, not to mention it looking particularly 2-shaped in the central region???? What do you think?