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https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Two-Pence-Coins-2p-Vinyl-Flooring-Any-Size-Supplied-Delivered-Worldwide-Floor/362175312747?hash=item545354b36b:g:Y~4AAOSwBp1Z4yPp:rk:1:pf:0

One very impressive coin!

I have indeed wondered how coins were kept in the past. Surely, the majority weren't kept in cabinets (or there will be many more antique ones available today)? Yet we still have a reasonable quantity of coins well preserved and in the top grade. I now use quadrums. Prior to that I used 2 x 2s. Tried slabbing with cgs before that. Have tried and rejected coin capsules first. Don't have a large enough collection to justify using a cabinet. I would be at a lost with regard to coin storage if plastic has never been invented.

Whats comes to mind is the term "cabinet toning". Probably no wood is totally inert and the felts probably do trap substances over time. Don't get me wrong, I love toned coins and think that it is probably a good thing if cabinets do help coins tone just a little faster.

I suppose coins in plastic have less things to react with than coins in a cabinet such as the chemicals in the cloth, free flowing air, potential emissions from wood etc. Cabinets are handmade furniture and I guess each one is somewhat unique.

Just been to the PCGS website to have a look and I agree that strike is indeed superb and proof. If you have the PCGS certification number handy, then I can try to get a bigger photo.

Can try fax.

Someone fell for it and the item was sold for £30. Then it looks like the seller has developed a conscience and cancelled the sale. His reward? A negative feedback with the comment "BUYER BEWARE*!Seller likes to cancel fair won bids! A Very Negative Experience**"

Hmm, there is quite a big difference between cgs 2 and 3. cgs 3 need to show quite a few letters in the legend like the one below. Might be yours is a 2+ or a 2 with a CAC or Semra approved sticker? 😃

Now the wonderful obverse of the cgs 2:

A cgs 2

Success. It has now been pulled.

This must be a candidate for the ugliest "coin" every produced. A "masterpiece" created by pushing a poppy pin into something? £550 price tag ... £50 for charity, £56 for the silver, probably (considerably) less than £100 production cost and the rest for profit ...

Incredibly, it looks like someone has bid £30 for his cock and bull story ...

The slab is genuine and the photos are identical to the ones obtainable on pcgs verification website.

Presumably, it is just something homemade. An interesting item but I can't see it as having value. The photo below shows a gold 5 us dollar set in a silver one us dollar.

I think you need to know what you are doing when buying a slabbed MS65 coin. A PCGS or NGC MS65 often has premium attached and can be expensive. (That’s my reason for avoiding buying slabbed coins in the UK). It is a moot point whether one should crack open a PCGS / NGC MS65 slab. If the coin has been somewhat over graded or not particularly attractive in the first place, then one should not have pay over the odds initially. Cracking such a slab would would mean less money when you eventually sell it on. I personally won’t crack open an PCGS / NGC MS65 slab unless there is good reason to. I fully understand that advanced collectors might want to crack open slabs to store in cabinets with the rest of their collection. Then again, they would only have paid what the coin and not the slab was worth.

At least he didn't claim that the "Z" is the mark of Zorro 😄

Oh, the 1933 penny from my grandmother thing ... Let's hope he doesn't actually get any money for it or he would be tempted into a life of dishonesty on Ebay. This could be his first sale on Ebay according to his feedbacks.

It's really surprising that he has managed to sell more than 3600 of these pennies. But I think the seller is being fair since he is only charging 99p including p+p. I guess most people don't care much about a quid.

"In 1858 this shinny new penny paid for a book of stamps that sent 1/2 a dozen love letter across the south of England. In 1914 it was given in change to a ticket aboard a ship and the spent straight away on a bag of liquorice that can. E found 1/2 eaten at the bottom of the Atlantic. Many years later is found by an old blind women and given to her grandson along with 100s of others to see if they were worth anything." Reads like a bad story written by a schoolkid for homework. Postage was expensive in 1858 and it cost a whole penny to buy just a single stamp.

I do like the 1983 and 1984-87 piedfort £1 coins. The designs are really very good. I brought the 84-87 piedfort set a few years back which cost £55 + juice which was (and still is) the standard price. Strangely, I don't have the slightest interest in any of the other years.

The bidder is m***o and the seller is "mitmitchantho". Hence, it does look like a shill bid and he is not being very subtle either This person has not got a single feedback for selling either. His recent feedbacks were for buying anti stress pills and sleeping pills and so it looks like some desperate and naive attempt to make some money.

I just can't believe the seller's story. He states that the story was reported in: "1926 - Dundee Evening Telegraph (April 21st), Lancashire Evening Post (April 21st & May 29th), Northern Daily Mail (May 29th), Newcastle News, Pennsylvania, USA (June 12th). 1934 - Nottingham Evening Post (February 7th & November 22nd), Western Morning News (November 25th). 1940 - Angus Evening Telegraph (January 28th). 1955 - Birmingham Daily Post (November 1st). " Can't see how anyone can possibly get this extensive information. And no one can check any of the above now.

I don't collect modern proofs but I did once when I was a teenager. Reasons? 1) Couldn't afford high grade 19C coins. Worn coins had little appeal for me. Modern proofs are always in FDC. 2) Some can be attractive in design. 3) Some are very nicely presented. Easy to handle. 4) A possible way to collect world coins ...and very occasionally, the odd one can be a good investment. ... and some people buy them to tick a box