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not the best pic. Yours for £1.50

Thanks Tom. Will take a look in a bit and see what i can do.

Spoilsport

win win situation i have sold a little on ebay, but no expert, i do believe they have days from time to time where its free to either place an auction, dont know if its free completely, ie no commision.....there may be others better placed to answer that. paypal is very convenient when buying, not so good when selling, aquarium products seem to be advertised under either....home and garden or....pet supplies.....better still both. ski It's a free listing weekend this week , but I still havent got a clue how to do it all.I have only sold one or two things in the past but much has changed now even the rules!.

I also do not want paypal getting my money and holding on to it like a leech before I can buy coins and books.

Rather apt, Yesterday I was looking at the auctions of rare girl guides ones, then the wife came home with a unc one, suddenly I got given another in change by the bus driver, then another from Tesco metro in town, so I now have 3 rare ones, how rare, only 50,0000 or 70,000 struck according to whichever page of the RM site I look at. I also got a number of other designs from the bank without auction fees or postage of course Garry, I am interested as I was thinking doing this myself - did you say that you had gone to the bank and exchanged some cash for some bags of 50p's? If so, what proportion of them were commemorative roughly? I couldn't say as a percentage, about erm 30% if my terrible math is right, out of the £100 worth, we got about 60 of the darn things, however there were a lot and I mean a lot of duplicate ones, more so of the shooting, swimming, wheelchair ones, I also got a number of those older dictionary ones, we sat at their table for a long while going through them before having the cheek to then give them back asking for it to be put into my account which elicited a tather strange look . I intend to hit RBS and Lloyds next time. Looks like coin rolling as in the USA is going to be worthwhile here.

Maybe the boss man could give us a beginners a downloadable template ebay selling page, and I could upload a picture of my coin, you could all grade it and such then i can post it on ebay. I am just so so so Lazy and scared of being ragged on a description

Rather apt, Yesterday I was looking at the auctions of rare girl guides ones, then the wife came home with a unc one, suddenly I got given another in change by the bus driver, then another from Tesco metro in town, so I now have 3 rare ones, how rare, only 50,0000 or 70,000 struck according to whichever page of the RM site I look at. I also got a number of other designs from the bank without auction fees or postage of course

So my son who is 9 and autistic got his dad a lovely xmas present, a big jar of pickled Chillis, and being the dutifull father I had to sit and eat them last night before he went to bed just to let him know daddy liked his present and cared. NEVER EVER DO IT. I now need a 3 engine fire crew to put out the burning. Woke up in agony and dived for the loo, sheesh, I heard the jokes but never thought it a reality. I love you son, but daddy is putting these in the bin.

Nah I will let you grab that bargain Paulus, I'm all played out on pennies today. Besides I know your a big Heston mint collector and would love that one .

The bad news is, now it is circulated Your brain thinks like mine, thats very dangerous :lol: .

Not aware of any, and it is unlikely to exist because each piece is individual, special only to the parties concerned. On the plus side, you might find that the engraving has been done on a really rare coin. I've seen a couple of R6 coins so engraved, which might give a decent financial gain when you decide to sell. Debbie, go here http://www.searchdome.com/ebay/ebay/runNewSearch type in love token and hit run, theres a few about.

Heh, it's on my snipe list

Surely not! Much better quality than the early bun pennies David Yeah thats the guy, dead ugly aint he.

Incidentaly my bank had a fit when I went in and asked for £100 of 50p's the guy asked me if I was looking for something with a smile as the boss scowled.

Not when they can already make a fortune from tourists, souvenir hunters, parents, the kind of people who used to buy limited edition plates to hang on their walls, and the poor saps who fondly imagine that annual proof sets are actually worth what they are listed at in Spink. I suppose so but keeping the plate hangers etc happy is one thing, another when it could affect a whole hobby and industry here with no errors forthcoming. Kind of like throwing the dog a bone every now and again. Would you think ?. You could be right - this forum disproves my long-held theory that no coin collector gives 2p about the decimal coins in their change... Tut tut Peck, as a businessman you should know better when every clown on Ebay wants to buy your undated 20p etc etc for over £50. Of course they matter.

Not when they can already make a fortune from tourists, souvenir hunters, parents, the kind of people who used to buy limited edition plates to hang on their walls, and the poor saps who fondly imagine that annual proof sets are actually worth what they are listed at in Spink. I suppose so but keeping the plate hangers etc happy is one thing, another when it could affect a whole hobby and industry here with no errors forthcoming. Kind of like throwing the dog a bone every now and again. Would you think ?.

Let me walk before running first Azda, that was a major achievement for me, I want to learn so badly it pushed me further and faster than I thought possible. However the guy who sold them to me then tried to pull a fast one on the wife when I asked her to go back and get me another pounds worth, he tried to give her a lot of foreign muck whe she asked for the bagged pennies, he also took out all the silver coins so he thought, these coins are not his but what local detectorists found and asked him to sell for them as is, so he had no right to do so as far as I am concerned, especially if they were worth anything and he then told them he had sold them to us, more so as he had already told us that we could have them as are and unchecked the last time !, anyway, it turned out I came home with a silver threepence, a load of farthings and some sixpences he had missed as well as a couple of other coins in that bag. I think the french napoleon coins are ugly !. Still, at least they can export decent Brandy.

Flat coca cola appears to work plus a luke warm bath and a nicely chilled toilet roll. Well you lot have certainly got my brain excited, I went out for the first time in about 3 years today, I went to town and purchased some old copper washers as you all call them for a pound, I did have a panic attack as usual but the wife calmed me down and sorted it out and so it was not a bad day really. At least I did not end up in the Royal Berks hospital as usual with palpitations etc. So now you can all laugh at my copper washers

Ok. are all coins both from say the 18th century and the 20th all graded with the same criteria. I cant understand why I see some say victorian coins graded as say VF yet the same wear on a post decimal coin is scrap, if the unc version is available even for the 18th century coin ( however rare )surely they should all be using the same grading system and criteria. Or am I watching too many people grading such coins wrongly.

Having read an article in coin mag about the precision of striking these days, you dont think RM are deliberately making errors to keep collectors happy do you ?

Not all bad it seems, the wife came home from the shop and said I have something you want, I thought "oh god not now dear", and handed me a unc 2010 gg 50p. now if i can only stop this burning and rumbling.

Well that's it my Yamaha FZR600 has been turned over on it's side and the bin has gone for a burton. It is decidedly windy here my friends. The cherry tree in the front garden is taking some rather large bows too, as is the neighbours fir tree :ph34r:

It is one to miss.All the gimmick gold and silver plated coins are tat. Stick to unbutched currency or proofs. Attached is a Maundy set http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2000-MILLENNIUM-SILVER-PROOF-MAUNDY-4-COIN-SET-RARE-/160569740483?pt=Coins_BritishProofs_RL&hash=item2562b3ccc3 Looks like he closed that auction down after I asked him why it was so rare. Go figure.

Yep, I am a man with a plan.