Gary1000

I'm not seeing any Likes with Firefox, maybe I'm not looking in the correct place.

It may be a common coin raw but the number slabbed will be limited so if you only buy slabs you are pretty limited and a high grade is going to cost.

He must be on crack cocaine if he thinks he's sold 105 of those at that price....... NUMPTY. How does he fiddle the stats to say this many have been sold at that price?There has to be a flaw somewhere within ebay. Although looking at his negatives i would' bother purchasing anything from the seller even if he had something i wanted. A bit like the coin seller centiles, he has something now and again but you just can't Trust it He no longer ships to the UK so that save's us a lot of hassle

The reason you got an immediate reply was because your offer was within the threshold set by the seller, so ebay sent an auto accept.

I heard that 40 is the new 30, Happy birthday to you both.

That's a nice enough halfpenny. Not spectacular by any means, but certainly nice, especially at the right price A few small green spots on the reverse, I hope they are stable.

I'm waiting for the insurance companies to start kicking up, As you increase the retirement age more and more people will be dying in employment, it's going to cost them a fortune.

I think you may be right about this, and it could be thanks to the humble hobby of philately... coins were always collected for their beauty and historic value, whereas stamps were always prone to the odd printer error. So stamp 'misprints' were eagerly sought after for the rarities they were and I suppose that attitude filtered through into numismatics too? It definitely does seem recent though - I can't remember that such things were regarded as being of particular interest in the late 60s. I think it has to be a celebrated error to get any interest. You often see error coins on ebay that seem to attract very little interest.

For me, I really like the leather box and I guess I would be prepared to pay £20 or £30 to buy one if I have a set in cardboard box. (Having said that, I do worry about the ribbons used to lift out the coins and the way they can tone the coins). I think sets sell for pretty much the same money regardless the type of box. In fact, I think one might even get more money by separating a set and selling the coins individually. I think my set is in the leather case, well they were before I put them into my cabinet. I'll have to go up into the loft and look it out, I have a bag with all the cases in somewhere. If mine were in the cardboard case I'd jump at an upgrade for £20-30. I think £50 would be closer.

Yes both the currency type.

Dave's favourite seller! (That mat's been DIPPED). And you can get them from here for £12 cheaper http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/like/271321735117?hlpht=true&ops=true&viphx=1&lpid=95&device=c&adtype=pla&crdt=0&ff3=1&ff11=ICEP3.0.0&ff12=67&ff13=80&ff14=95&ff19=0 My mistake £22 cheaper.

There's been a couple come up recently, one at London coins which went for about £300 and Bucks Coin had one on ebay a week or two ago which went very cheap. Those prices are a bit of a surprise for something that is supposed to be so rare.

That's as it came from the mint.

I regularly get spoof paypal emails. I 've had the skype several times and lost count of the "your account has been limited" etc.

If I remember right, Martin Coles Harman was an eccentric (American?) who possibly had bought Lundy Isle or at least owned a good deal of its land - he decided to issue his own currency but again (if I remember right) he was prosecuted by HM Government and told in no uncertain terms that he couldn't. That's a nice pair you have there. Harman was born in Sussex, so not an American. However, I think your assessment of him having been "eccentric" is probably accurate. He bought ALL of Lundy Isle in 1924, declared himself King, and issued the half puffin and puffin by 1929. Some of these coins did actually see circulation as money on the island, so I would not consider them strictly "fantasy" pieces. Eventually, Harman was prosecuted, but fined a laughably small amount. After his prosecution, the remainder of the coins were withdrawn and remain collector pieces today. The restrike/reissue pieces of 1965 (in both copper and gilt) of the same design are considered truly fantasy pieces. With regard to the "slabbing", I hear the deeply entrenched hatred of plastic on the other side of the pond and it's a little tiring. But, for my collecting interests, 1) I never pay a premium for plastic, and 2) the plastic does offer some additional protection from the elements and mishandling. As I have mentioned before, any collector who systematically and dogmatically avoids slabbed coins will miss out on a lot of high quality items. I buy what I like, and have over the course of the last decade or so developed a very picky taste. If it happens to be in plastic, so be it. The coin is the coin, anything else is a distraction from the hobby. I have myself bought about half a dozen slabbed coins and I see nothing wrong with them as a form of protecting the contents. I don't think it's slabbing par se that is disliked over here in the UK it's what appears to be the mindless chasing irrespective of the content of the highest numbers, continuous trading up and crossing to try and get a higher number. It makes one wonder if they are coin collectors or just slab collectors.

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Lundy Puffins Being effectively fantasy pieces I'm a little suprised to see them being slabbed.

£125 for the £15 copies says it all.

That That's been around a couple of times now. I think it would need to drop at least £500 possibly £1000 before its about right.

Guess what arrived in the post today, that was quick. I'll give it a try when I get home tonight. Looking at it there's plenty of profit margin in it, won't be long before they are starting at 99p.

I think it may have been planned but never happened. Anyway I think the Nazis would have made a better job of it, I mean its under weight by about a third and has a milled edge. Only a fool would have been fooled by that one. The same fools who were taken in by an elaborate bluff that Calais would be the main focus of invasion on D Day? But I take your point. How would fake crowns destabilise the economy? 3/4 of a million 1935 crowns as against getting on for half a billion halfcrowns in circulation? No, the fake fiver was the real deal. Weren't the white fivers to be dropped by aeroplane. 3/4 million 1935 crowns would chip a few roof tiles.....where's me tin hat.

I think the problems arise when it's a specialist field with little general encyclopedic source material - which is certainly true of coins: while positively bursting at the seams with tomes on this or that area of numismatics, it lacks a decent general reference source. The Wikipedia editors are therefore a bit stuffed when leaning on contributors for citations, if there aren't any readily to hand. Rob, is this the brockage mistake? "In coin collecting, brockage refers to a type of error coin in which one side of the coin has both the normal image and a mirror image of the opposite side impressed upon it." That is a really stupid mistake - how can one side of the coin feature both conditions? And what's on the other side? You are free to edit that yourself Rob, or I could. (Edited: in fact, I just did!) Yes, but isnt that true of Predecimal.com too. Who would guess that that had anything to do with lsd. That's a good point, though marginally less generic. I suppose if you substituted die clash for brockage you would be closer.

Doesn't do anything for me I afraid Rob. Just looks like a battered 5 to me.

I think it is still partial as we are over a month away. I hope it's only a partial as I should be having a lot in there and there's no sign of it yet.

It's where bits of the legend started to wear - the relevant letters were 're-cut' but as they couldn't be aligned with the previous letter absolutely exactly, you see this 'doubling' effect. Very common in the 19th Century. Yes, sometimes there are cases where coins are double struck, but then you see it all over not just certain letters. I read somewhere that double struck all over is likely to be caused in the hubbing process so the doubling is in the die.