Coinery

How soon do they put the hammer prices up?

Chances are coinery if you get it ,will be at your top bid and not less.Yes, it's not very often I get a nice surprise with proxy bids!

It's a shame they don't even provide a sound-link so you can listen live!

'Limited to 20 students...be sure you don't miss out!'

Here you go chaps, just had this emailed to me! For around £200 you too can be an expert grader! http://engage.collectiblesgroup.com/index.php/email/emailWebview?mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRonu6vPZKXonjHpfsX66O8lXKCg38431UFwdcjKPmjr1YIAS8R0aPyQAgobGp5I5FEOTLbYV6Z6t60PWQ%3D%3D

Yarp! Not good, is it!They really should get the sale room fully onboard, it would do them endless good? Certainly no harm could come of it! Maybe they prefer the stability of knowing they've got X100k in the bag, even before the auction takes place?

I wish, as I've had to use the least favourite method of mine for buying coins, the proxy bid!

that's probably the problem! They do say books make instant experts! Oh, dear!

that's probably the problem! They do say books make instant experts! Oh, dear!

Hi LED, I'd be surprised if you could get more than £15 for the entire lot, especially as the postage is going to cost £5+ There is a member on here (Scott) who buys up lots of bulk lots...might be worth messaging him? Good luck with your sale!

I agree TG, stick Rob's 1800's provenance on that coin, and Nicholas might've been buying the other coins he was interested in?

Goodness, don't you just want a collection of coins like that! Why didn't slaney have that provenance with the coin? Why wasn't it even researched by a numismatist for the sale?

Yes, many HROTD!

I've always used XP, I hope that sounds like I know what I'm talking about? I know that my neighbour, who's much older than I, sees me as the font of all computer knowledge (which I'm not, though I can navigate my own system for most things/repairs) and is forever asking me to do things like back-up stuff, and maybe load printer software, etc...easy I say, until I realise I can't even navigate the most basic functions on his top-of-the-range Windows system. Why do they have to change these things so drastically? This is where my son will one day go 'duh, dad'! And it won't be because I'm computer illiterate, it'll be because they've changed all the paths I'm hard-wired to follow! I haven't got time to spend another 20 years, working my way into the bowels of a PC, only to find once I've got there that they've turned the map upside down and renamed it Swaziland. It's no good at all, when I've only ever known it at Suffolk and Lyme Regis!

Did you watch that BBC Documentary about the plight of the German, and German-speaking, people after the war? I posted the link in ChKy's thread...what a breath taker! On i-player for a few more days...truly worth a watch!

Isn't EVERYTHING from the Bedale Hoard nowadays?

Nooooooo!

Milled coins just ain't what they used to be? They just got a whole lot better!

Goodness me! Definitely blurs the boundaries! I feel so utterly ashamed of my membership within the human race! http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b05x30lb/1945-the-savage-peace

They certainly look convincing side by side! What's really needed now is a super-macro image of it to really take a proper look? Is that a raised bulge above the top bar of the F or an optical illusion?

However, looking at the bulge above the top bar of the F could also point at die-damage, much like the recently debated open/closed mouth horse on the reverse of the veiled-head crowns? ?

Prelimenarily looking at the spacings above the F I'd say the two examples are likely from different dies! That being said, I think it would be a struggle to deny you an underlying letter, which is likely a P to be fair?

Saxby is just the most hilarious trader out there!

You may have Hit the nail on the Head Stewie (average) it seems Charles I collectors may also be seeking asthetically pleasing coins also. If i were to want a Lizzie halfcrown for example there's plenty of worn ones out there for several hundred, but why settle for that when you'll only try and upgrade eventually?Ah, yes, but when you are dedicatedly collecting a very specific series, where parts of that series are only existing in single figures, it just won't do not to have an example. Especially of a variety rare enough to have attracted the attention of some very prominent collectors!I see your Chas collecting in a different way to TGs, as you appear to me to be collecting across a very wide parameter, and probably have no intention of collecting an example of every Sharp number? Whereas TG I see as someone committed to that goal, which would mean he has to occasionally trade eye-appeal for rarity to achieve that aim? There would be a few examples of this in Liz too, particularly with some of the early-bust shillings, but fortunately there is plenty of other material to collect in the meantime. As a disclaimer, I must add that I have noticed TG change direction slightly, and more recently focus his attention upon upgrades ahead of rarity. Maybe this is happening across all areas, which is why the OP coin is a sobering warning for stock buyers and/or investors? I'm still surprised there isn't a completionist out there who wants it, though?

Good point about slabbing and grandfathers, Dave! Missed that one!