Coinery

We must have posted at the same time...will have a proper look at this later!

Oh, dear! http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/William-111-crown-coin-1695-/321803575891?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item4aecfce253

Learning new things about it all is what keeps us going on here, we're learning every day! All the very best to you, Stuart

I have an other lot of those 1820 sovereigns , but i may hold on to them for abitDealer paid a very good price for them , received some good advise from a few on here , but when it comes to selling i think il look into properly as i did with 3 i sold , good job i didnt jump straight in and sell to those who made offers , id have been a good 400 light In some respects your statement is not fair, as we all had some poor pictures to work from, some which were just taken from the net! £400 over three coins is not a lot, especially if the person you sold them to had the privilege of seeing them in hand?This is the old problem of trying to make a financial judgement on images alone! You have to cover yourself by a small margin to allow for the details you can't see in an image, that could easily drag the resale value down by £600...what would you do if you were speculating on a grainy picture of a replacement car, which was due an MOT? Glad you got a result though!

Spot on! My instinct is you shouldn't worry, there's nothing about it that jumps out! And with that weight, we'd all be in trouble if that's a copy!

Nice one! Hope you got something out of coming on here? Don't forget us the next time something nice comes your way!

It's also got that spurred edge on the reverse from 12-4 O'Clock, I always like to see that pressing through my coin flips!

I'm not certain the G5 acorn reverse 6ds are quite so easy in UNC as we might imagine? Not so easy to find them ticking all the boxes! I only ever had ONE that I thought to be a prize, and that came from Manchester!

I doubt there are very many on here who could advise on the notes? Peter dabbles I believe? Mostly the two don't go together, strangely?

The first looks nice! Around AU for me! Leave the other...no point in having that! Edit: just as a disclaimer, I'd certainly buy it at GEF any day of the week!

I think he spends some time in Durham still? Not sure of the exact details???

And thinking about it there's Clive in Durham? http://www.historiccoinage.com And John here: http://www.argentumandcoins.co.uk

I think any dealer/collector on here would likely want to do that too?Thanks for bringing it to the table, though...interesting coins!

I'm not buying coins myself at the moment, but you might tempt a couple on here to contact you directly? Good luck with it all! Not sure who's up Newcastle way?

Aren't these all repeated links to the same pictures? The gold looks quite good from what I can see on my phone?

Some of the gold doesn't look too bad to be fair! I think you will still need to do better with the images to get the best price from an online transaction. It might be worth meeting up with someone? What part of the country are you in?

Beautiful coin! Why is it an LC image?Cause I couldn't get iPad to uploaded keeps saying to big , the 1820 says on paperwork n unc lus and mine looks as its new better than photo from London coin , I have bank notes etc tooNot a good strategy! It's pictures of the original coins that people will need to see to make a judgement!Are the other images of the Matt sovs taken of the actual coins?

Beautiful coin! Why is it an LC image?

What else have you got?

Top grade coins, not the usual 'I've been left a coin' fodder!

Hi! Why are you about to get ripped off? Any chance of some photos?

That's great! Really great to see you so pleased!

I think it's a bit of a life-cycle! You can come into coin collecting by a number of ways...pulling from circulation, inheriting gramp's collection, or maybe you just love a bit of history and stumble into it by accident, as I did? Then what happens is, you may join a forum, buy a book, purchase a couple of coins via eBay, and generally pootle around a bit, making endless mistakes (but good to do so, as long as they're not pricey ones). Then you discover dealers and maybe fairs, where you expand and grow and, alongside, maybe make one or two better judged purchases on eBay? Eventually you'll have a couple of silly snatches at the auction houses until, finally, one day, you find yourself sat next to your old dealer and bidding for the same coins! That's not to say this journey is a short one, because it isn't, and it's not for everyone...some people prefer the security of a dealer's judgement, and will happily surf for the best deals amongst them, but not everyone. People will always need dealers however as they are in it 24/7 and will always be the first to hear of any surfacing rarities, or will at least know a man that has one...you're never close to this with an auction house. The whole journey is as varied as coins, and each travels a different but recognised path by us all, it wouldn't be so wonderful otherwise!

It could of course be something under the two too!

Could be a bit of damage to the die, similar to that which can be seen on the top bar of the 7, or on the upper tip of the 1???? Really difficult with these early dies unless die-matches can be made? Now, that's got to be a pet project for someone one day, there are more than enough viable C2 farthings still in existence to compile a pretty substantial library of dies...amazing for a 350 year old copper coin!