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Apparently, there are many more people on Ebay thinking that AM32 £5 notes are worth a lot of money. Are they just plain stupid, greedy, trying to be funny or actually in need of medical help? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/AM32-Rare-sought-after-serial-number-5-pound-note-/162410574605?hash=item25d06cb30d:g:Oo8AAOSwSlBYsxPD This guy's note starts with AM21! http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/five-pounf-note-am32-/182469094513?hash=item2a7c016c71:g:umQAAOSw-RFYs0RT And this one is beyond help.

Might be there was no requirement for returning them. Just the stipulation that they are not spent or sold.

For the region of the note he gave "uk. usa". Could this be possible? Does he know of a secret treaty between May and Trump? He also gave 00 as the denomination of the note. I now just feel sorry for him.

OK guys, what do you think of this: This guy has 100% positive feedback. 229 feedbacks in total. Wait for it ... All 229 are for buying and 0 for selling!!!

This guy is hilarious! See his only other item on sale for £1680 http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/am32-885885-five-pound-note-/112323083796?hash=item1a26fa3e14:g:WTIAAOSwA3dYm6Q6 It's not a Jane Austen £5 but it is "very close to it". Serial number AM32 885885. (The Austen notes have numbers 885551 - 885554.) I have some old lotto tickets. They are not jackpot winners but are very close and only a few numbers out. Anyone want to give me £10k each? Bargain at less than 1% of the jackpot!

I have just came across an article written in the beginning of February saying that the Royal mint has made around 200,000 of these things so far. "Scott Kuperus, from The Royal Mint, said: “To date The Royal Mint has issued over 200,000 trial samples of the new 12-sided £1 coin to industry stakeholders, for the purposes of calibrating or upgrading coin handling equipment ahead of the coin’s introduction in March 2017. “The trial pieces are marked with the word ‘trial’, do not have legal tender status, and have no redeemable value.”" https://www.thesun.co.uk/living/2770072/new-12-sided-trial-1-coins-already-selling-for-200-on-ebay-but-you-cant-spend-them-in-the-shops/

What can one say apart from bravo!

I came across this in the minutes of a CGS meeting in June 2015. If this information is accurate, then VIP proof Wreath crowns are not as rare as one might think. "The point was made that pricing by CGS for Proof Crowns of George V (the ‘Wreath Crowns’) where only ten may have been made did not have a significant difference to their scarcer currency counterparts (where the latter may have been produced in the thousands). Erratum: Post the meeting the following information was kindly provided by Stewart Gilbert: I had a serious conversation about a year ago with a director of a leading retail and auction company, who detected that one of my Wreath Crowns may be a proof, and it was indeed verified and graded by PCGS as a VIP Proof. So I asked the director if he had any idea how many of these Wreath VIP Proofs were minted? His professional opinion, based on his wealth of knowledge, experience and contacts at the Mint was that between 50 and 100 coins each year would have been minted for the various “V.I.P. s”. If the Mint did record the number minted at the time, then the information should be available, but I guess may be hidden away somewhere in their library? Or maybe lost during their move from London to Cardiff? So, only as a suggestion, maybe you could change 10 to between 50 and 100."

Very nice. I am probably the only person here who don't know this but what is the web address for Rob's site? (I am guessing that he does manage a well-known retail site)

I do find it rather ironic that her title is "Unidentified Variety" when her "variety" appears to have been identified... Might be we need a new category "Identified Variety: "

Well done for telling them and I am pleased that they have integrity and removed the lot. Surely you didn't really expect a "thank you" from them? My confidence in LCA have been shaken by the way they closed CGS and by the reduced quality of their auction descriptions. At least they are like the last banana in the fruit bowl; not all bad.

I have just noticed that if you click on the "sign up" button on the CGS web site, it is now asking an annual membership fee of £99! http://www.coingradingservices.co.uk/?page=signup It is not clear what benefit you get from having membership beyond being able to view their population reports etc. and this is hardly worth £99 a year. I have got my free membership some years ago and will definitely not keep it if CGS were to ask me for money. If they were to insist on having paid membership to slab coins in the future, then I am done with them.

Might be you should e-mail them and see how they respond. Another illustration of the reduced standard of LCA descriptions. No mention of that cut on the head.

Not this one ...

At least they have decided to correct some of their errors now.

"according to the LCGSValuations By Grade." i.e. their valuations and not Spink's. Rather unfortunately their valuations are sometimes way over the top. Some of the coins I slabbed with CGS in the past were given CGS values of three times what I paid. And to be fair to them, they do occasionally give realistic values.

Not as far as I know but I have not used them since the demise of CGS. It still states "Charges per coin are the greater of the flat fee or 2% of the coins value after grading and according to the LCGS Valuations By Grade. The flat fee £15.75 per coin." on their website. However, their LCGS' charges for hammered have never been clear cut.

Mike is right in that they should have checked it (even if quickly) before it went online. I am not trying to be cynical but I am not certain if they could be bothered to correct all those mistakes. After all, they couldn't be bothered to fix the LCGS section of their website. There are still numerous mentions of CGS Ltd and missing photos. And it is only 16 days to the auction. The mistakes won't matter soon ...

Impressive that you have worked it out!

There are probably dozens (and I am not joking) of errors of the same type. Now I can understand why the catalogue was described as a train wreck.

Care with spelling Guy. At least you only missed out one letter rather than two. Might be Nordle11 can correct the typo?

Love that portrait. I think the double struck bell mint mark is kind of cute rather than distracting. If only there is no flan split.

I didn't realise that they do until now. This guy is proud of his low grading at PR45. http://www.ebay.com/itm/1906-25C-PF45-lowest-graded-example-POP1-CIRCULATED-will-not-EVER-find-another-/132069897483?hash=item1ebffab50b%3Ag%3AiI4AAOSwmLlX2Fwz

I agree with Dave that they were particularly careless this time. Whilst mistakes are unavoidable, even the most cursory inspection would find these odd photos in the hammered section. http://www.londoncoins.co.uk/?searchlot=1722&searchtype=2&page=Catalogue http://www.londoncoins.co.uk/?searchlot=1816&searchtype=2&page=Catalogue http://www.londoncoins.co.uk/?searchlot=1817&searchtype=2&page=Catalogue I wouldn’t say it’s quite a bad as a train wreck, more like Windows 8 when it was first released.

Exactly. It really should be rejected by TPGs.