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Can't remember who you're with, without logging in, but just about everyone I know who have hotmail accounts have been infiltrated in this way! I've sent endless emails to my elderly relatives, and senior medical consultants, offering quick fixes for penile dysfunctions! All good fun!

I'll send an email to Heritage later, I'm sure I read somewhere that they'll get raw coins slabbed for their auctions, could be wrong? The coin would be going just one way, then, with just one lot of post, and no import taxes! This is what the experiment's all about, I guess, finding these things out by hard-won experience! I'm going to send a couple of trial hammereds to them, so I need to 'mail them anyway!

Could always make it a £120 stake, I'll cover 1949 until the new year, if that's agreeable?

Nice little Halfgroat, that!

I'm still in, 6 people would be about right i'd say, 100 quid each, we'd have to pick the right coin though, agree with the silver, so need to keep the eyes open for something that could grade in the MS bracket 64-67 in our humble opinions. Maybe some of the dealers has something we could play with? What's wrong with the Cooke coin? Could be interesting to see how that grades and sells with Heritage? Regardless, I'm in for a share of the fun, if someone wants to take the reigns! I have to confess though that understanding how a grading company arrives at a particular number is tiring to me, and of little interest to the coins I'm playing with, but I'm sure I'd learn a 100 quid's worth from it ;-)

Hi, does anyone have an image, or know of one, for the obverse of Edward VI's early penny with the Henry VIII three-quarter facing bust? S2418

BNJ vol. XXVI pt.III (1951) plate XXII no.13 Thanks, Rob! Haven't spoke in a while...Compliments of the season to you! Advert looks good, was there an extra premium for being in the first couple of turns?

I REALLY like G3 copper, I have to say!

Does it water it down too much to go 4 ways? Who's going to co-ordinate it, get it slabbed and submitted at heritage? I'll come on board for the experiment! Don't forget all the other expenses, post, etc...post to slab, return post...post to states! Could be fun exposing the process however :)

Sorry, tell a lie. It is MS67 after all ~ was looking at the wrong bit. The right one is here Extraordinary. And it's sitting at $625 thats 385 GBP crazy coin world I'd have said £300 absolute tops, and even that would be generous given its appearance!!! Clearly a business opportunity. Buy any unattractive big numbered slab at fair value and consign via Heritage. Could work wonders for the UK's balance of payments. On the question of the grade though, I still wonder how they get to MS67 with the obvious rim mark. The coin isn't heavy enough to have suffered the defect falling into the hopper. It has to be post Mint damage. I think the business opportunity comes from buying a raw coin, getting it slabbed by PCGS etc then shipping it over to heritage for a 4 fold increase in price. Everyone's a winner, i get 4x what i paid and an American gets a slabbed coin In the Spink 2013, back page, it gives you advice how to join PCGS Europe and have your coins graded/slabbed in Paris where their new office is. I may just do that and get some coins slabbed and shipped out to Heritage www.pcgseurope.com you have to join the collectors club to be able to submit the coins yourself any time of the year, you also get the first 8 coins slabbed free if you join the diamond club, 4 coins for the lowest entry level Heritage are the way to go! Elizabeth I slabs sell for a silly amount over there! Whenever I'm searching google images for particular coins, if I ever find a Heritage image, I always 'go in' for a look, just for the $$$ wow factor! Don't Heritage actually offer the slabbing process as part of their service, or did I just dream that one day?

What a muppet, only just dawned it's the slab grips! Doh! I'm really going to have to give up with this iPhone grading/identification lark!

I like that, Peter! OK, wanted...E2 shillings please!

I guess you would expect it to be well up there on grade alone, taking into account the ribbon tie is only weak-strike, likely as a result of metal being pressed elsewhere, due to the rim defects (is it ex mount)? I'm presuming they mutilated it on account of the defects?

I struggle to draw a stick man, Stuart! Not gonna be the new illustrator for Julia Donaldson then?

You might want to Pass in the link to coincommunity forum Peter of the 1864 florin, especially to andyg and Point out that its also from China and not some other foreign field. I know how he hates to be wrong, but this time we're right. I'd do it myself but the prix banned me for f all Barred! Well, Dave, you DO surprise me! You should be proud!

Someone got an art project on the go?

Just heard on the Classic FM news that Police in Connecticut have released a statement saying 'the man who shot 20 children MAY have had a personality disorder!'

Christ, it's really sad for the collector!

There are so many fakes on the Pre-decimal website that it makes me wonder whether Chris is the 'M' behind it all!

I agree and would also ask where did he get the coin from in the first instance, in essence it is an expensive grading lesson for the person who submitted the coin. It would be interesting to know what grade he was expecting it to come back at? I would also guess that Joe public will also now and then unwittingly find a coin in a draw, loft or somewhere else, and via the words google coin and authentication will end up at CGS. I have multiple queries most days from people who find a farthing of some sort and often expect that due to its age it must be worth a few bob!! I could see a few ropey coins making their way into the system that way Excellent point! Maybe that submitter thought he was sending off an UNC farthing? Maybe even bought it as an UNC?

Okay I will, thanks Dave, Stuart, Peter! I have laid out the princely sum of just under a tenner so far, so I don't feel I should have done it earlier!! I have about 10 books so far but none about hammered specifically ... Books are invaluable Stuart, especially if you intend to collect the subject. What we need though is a modern day book of fakes, i think that would be a best seller, outstripping even Harry Potter lol That would be even harder to keep up with than the new discoveries of the hammered farthing series! A dedicated web-resource would be good though! One that is actually useful, easy to navigate, and WORKS (that rules out the forgery network site IMO)!

Hear, hear...compliments of the season to you sword!

Me too, Sword!

You really should, Paul, it's only the price of 1 basic farthing! Also, you can't really collect hammered farthings using the Spink catalogue, you'd be missing out on so much! The way I look at buying coin books is this! You only have to single out 1 single rarity, and get to buy it at regular money, then the book pays for itself! I forget which coin it was now, but even my copy of the BMC exposed something that justified its purchase within a matter of months!

Wow! I hate London, but the above half makes me wish I lived there!