Coinery

Full Refund! Richard Beale, thank-you very much! Can't complain about that service!

Email sent off today, they'll end up blacklisting me for sure, I've already got a credit with them for the fake I pulled out of a 15-coin lot before going home. I just wish they kept their catalogue images in an online database, I'd be home and dry then! They could so easily just brush me off should they 'conveniently' lose their own records of the images!

I remember just watching for weeks while a coin stagnated at a particular stage, surprising given they're not getting the numbers they'd like! So does this mean the Northy is home and dry? I have to say, the ?plug isn't anything like as obvious in the images CGS have taken. Is it just a distorted crown arch instead? Could be interesting! That crown's truly beautiful! When they are that good, a tiny scratch feels like it's been hit with an axe.

Thanks Nick - a whole new knowledge chasm has just opened up for me! Better get swotting ... The WB thing frightens me to death! I think that's why I've kept putting it off and stuck to tweaking with the editing software instead! I used to do that too, but I'm glad that I got to grips with it eventually. Looking forward to sorting it out, will save me hours in the long run!

Thanks Nick - a whole new knowledge chasm has just opened up for me! Better get swotting ... The WB thing frightens me to death! I think that's why I've kept putting it off and stuck to tweaking with the editing software instead!

The reverse pic is in the main description section, do you want bigger/better pics of it? What die pairing is it? I can't seem to find any daylight bulbs that fit my desk lamps, I am using 2 cheap Ikea desk lamps (your suggestion!) with halogen bulbs - so yes to the offer of the spare bulbs! - but the fittings are the 'small Edsion' screw types (is that what they are called?) and the local wholesale leccy shop does have any daylight bulbs for that fitting in its (extensive) catalogue. I am just getting to know the camera, it has all sorts of WB settings, I am currently using one called 'K' - whatever that means! A lot better than no WB, then my silver collection comes out more like gold, but much room for improvement! The bulbs I have are screw fit, the larger screw size, will measure tomorrow, all your's if they fit! I think the reverse liz image is a duplicate of your P&M coin?

Might want to take a look at your Lizzy reverse? I'd definitely buy that die-pairing! Edit: great pictures by the way! I think a good image will pay for the camera, over and over! You've got the same White Balance issue as me, I still haven't got round to playing with it, yet, but Nick's idea could be a winner. What are you lighting with? I've got a couple of spare daylight bulbs you could have if you wanted them? Just fit them into desk lamps...you'd still need to tweak the WB though, maybe?

I'd be happy!

I'm sure he meant 'Battered ieval' coin!

Could be worth an email, John, I won't hold my breath though! Does anyone know/understand the technology involved in the production of such a coin, that might give a broad date to the manufacture, or a post ???? date at least? I presume these are mostly one-offs, or could I expect to find others of the same moulds out there?

By way of my excuse for not spotting it earlier I should perhaps add that, when looking at the coin in life size (you'd barely be able to fit the Martlet on the original at this scale), it looks significantly more convincing!

Declan's got the smallest one! Edit: if the foot of Declan's first 1 was parallel with the rim, his 8 would look EVEN smaller!

I never procured one outside of the major auctions or dealers that I wasn't happy to sell!

Well, that's EAST!! Any further East and it would be Holland I know I for one would not be metal detecting there! Better ways to spend your time in Amsterdam? The good old 'visiting Anne Frank's House' used to work a treat with parents when I was a teenager! Last time I was there I did manage to catch the very impressive Rossetti Exhibition, AS WELL! Can't remember it, mind you!

Well, that's EAST!! Any further East and it would be Holland I know I for one would not be metal detecting there!

I so wish all these little fragments of info could be bottled together in one place for future reference. I'll remember seeing this post a year from now, but won't have a chance in hell of finding it here in a thread on cleaning coins! Really useful pictures! I've been copying and pasting off anything interesting re G5 and G6 as it arrives on the forum, as there so many pearls that get lost otherwise, but where do you stop? Nice website btw You are SO bad Mr Dundee! Are you policing the entire 'net? I've got a big post coming up, could benefit the bigger 'proper' eBay sellers on here who are gutted with the fees(the one's I know about, at least)...you, Declan, Paulus, etc.! Please let me start the thread first!

Dang, this forum's good!

im going with the hearts, or no hearts coins......were nearly there and we havent seen it yet...man were good.........

I so wish all these little fragments of info could be bottled together in one place for future reference. I'll remember seeing this post a year from now, but won't have a chance in hell of finding it here in a thread on cleaning coins! Really useful pictures! I've been copying and pasting off anything interesting re G5 and G6 as it arrives on the forum, as there so many pearls that get lost otherwise, but where do you stop?

Rather than the usual DECUS ET TUTAMEN ANNO REGNI II, there was this ANNO REGNI ET TUTAMEN II DECUS coin that was sold... Description: Edward VII, crown, 1902, with error edge reading ANNO REGNI / ET TUTAMEN / II DECUS (E.S.C. - (cf. 361); cf. S. 3978), extremely fine and toned, apparently a previously unpublished variety http://www.artfact.com/auction-lot/edward-vii,-crown,-1902,-with-error-edge-reading-1-c-66wkbzhvss

Other than the black variety, of course! I believe many a new generation has its foundation in the fruits of avalon!

Not dissimilar to myself, this evening! Cooked red lentils, boiled potatoes, shredded and blanched spring greens, fried onion and garlic, chives, and lots of cheddar, all mixed together and baked in a pastry pie! Served with corn on the cob, coleslaw, and a fresh salad! Got it cold tomorrow with pickled onions and cherry tomatoes (plus some homemade scrumpy, which is being delivered to the door at 12)! So how do you reconcile the living floaters with your vegetarian habits? Beer ought to cause a problem too given the use of finings. I take a rather more pragmatic view of food. Everything goes in and nature decides if it is useful or not. Fortunately, a great many bottled beers, ciders, and wine are given the big V! The cider was a great find, the owner of the farm we're staying on rents out the barn to a fellow farmer, who just happens to make his own 'private' cider from the local apples (I've been assured that all the apples are hand checked, and every maggot, mouse and fly, are carefully set free before pulping). It's fabulous stuff!

Not dissimilar to myself, this evening! Cooked red lentils, boiled potatoes, shredded and blanched spring greens, fried onion and garlic, chives, and lots of cheddar, all mixed together and baked in a pastry pie! Served with corn on the cob, coleslaw, and a fresh salad! Got it cold tomorrow with pickled onions and cherry tomatoes (plus some homemade scrumpy, which is being delivered to the door at 12)!

says he who has been banging up above average pennies like they're going out of fashion! Oops, having a senior moment there, Ski, getting you all confused with pies offerings! Sorry!

I'd need to set up a new eBay site and try and slip them past you lot, that's the trouble!