Gary1000

Correction: I've just run into the character limit that I was assured doesn't exist! It's 300 characters. The other thing that has been annoying me for a while is the change to a 10,000 search limit. Yesterday for instance I started in Coins British at about 5.00pm and only got back to about 9.30pm Friday evening so I missing about 4 hours of new listings. Does that 10000 limit include all ebay items or just coins? As the current total in the coins section is about 60000 British, there surely can't have been 10000 listings in just over 4 hours. Something doesn't add up there. Isn't the 300 character limit overkill as titles are limited to 80(?) letters if I remember right, so you can't use any more in any case? It would be better if the search results offered you the option to remove churchill crowns from a list of crown search results for example. You can exclude them by era unless someone has listed them in the wrong section, but then you can't legislate for all events. That's 10,000 in 20 hours, 9.30pm the previous evening.Every day I check the previous 24 hours, and worldwide it's more like 75,000. That makes an average of 7500 per day so 10,000 is never far off.

Correction: I've just run into the character limit that I was assured doesn't exist! It's 300 characters. The other thing that has been annoying me for a while is the change to a 10,000 search limit. Yesterday for instance I started in Coins British at about 5.00pm and only got back to about 9.30pm Friday evening so I missing about 4 hours of new listings.

$100 including Fedex back to me.

Like the five figures somebody in the US spent on the gold halfpenny I formerly owned. Just because the heavy gouge was repaired and smoothed over, it suddenly became eligible for slabbing as a Proof 64 Cameo by NGC as opposed to XXXX details, scratches/environmental damage or whatever reason they would give for refusing to grade. Or maybe they just turn a blind eye to certain favoured individuals if the repair job is good enough? I'm sure repair work goes on all the time, with the best jobs going undetected and the TPGs indifferent as long as the repair work isn't in your face. I saw a piece of hammered gold once with a ticket where the (barely detectable) adjustment to the ticket indicating the coin was pierced was more obvious than the plugging done to repair the coin. The catalogue description for the date on the ticket was immensely helpful here. Allen Stockton said it's not unusual to get job lots of 50 coins for repair.

The one's around here only seem interested in lead and copper.

The cheapest sausages are known in the business as school sausages. Think about it.

to be honest Peck, my answer would be i wouldnt want a fake or a repaired coin. I can see the attraction of the repair for some.....its just not for me. It's everyone own personal choice I guess. I'm sure seuk would be just as disappointed to find one of his coin wasn't a fake after all. I am quite happy to fill a space with a fake/altered date rather than a modern copy, at least it has taken some thought and possibly a bit of sweat in it production. Also I think repairing which in this case I wouldn't consider conserving, also to have its place and which would to be individually considered in the merits in each case. If one of the great rarities turned up damaged I sure it would be repaired in a heartbeat. This coin is now in my collection where it's going to stay, probably for many years. In total this coin has cost me under £100, it would cost me £500-700 to replace it.

That's a very impressive work, it's quite amazing! I'm not sure whether it's your photography lighting, or great skill on the part of the engraver, but that looks like some great moonlight! Yes, I was thinking of Mongo only the other day! And still no news on Gollum? And by the looks of the reverse that HC hadn't been in circulation for very long

Ah, but is yours slabbed?

Allen had some family issues, a bereavement, then slipped a disc which put him on his back for about 4 months. Time went bye. I believe the work was done within the last couple of weeks.

Certainly a keeper now.