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I am watching this sale carefully and there are is some very over-the-top bidding. For example, a fairly ordinary Dritanniar sixpence which is now over $500. The good news is that I already have two which are quite a lot better. I have my eyes on a couple of coins but I am not going to pay way over the odds and that is the way this sale is going. However, you can get decent buys at Heritage if you know what you are doing. The fixation on slabbing and grading by many American collectors is also an opportunity. VF35 for that DRITANNIAR is looking rather generous. It looks much nearer to Fine than that. £200 absolute max in my book and probably a bit less. Agreed. That was my maximum on it.

I am watching this sale carefully and there are is some very over-the-top bidding. For example, a fairly ordinary Dritanniar sixpence which is now over $500. The good news is that I already have two which are quite a lot better. I have my eyes on a couple of coins but I am not going to pay way over the odds and that is the way this sale is going. However, you can get decent buys at Heritage if you know what you are doing. The fixation on slabbing and grading by many American collectors is also an opportunity.

I read the article. But I think that, if we are commemorating the sacrifice of our troops in WW1, then a focus for 2014 should be the sacrifice of the BEF at Mons, Le Cateau, the Aisne and Ypres rather than a recruiting posters supposedly representing a call to arms. My grandfather was in the reserve in 1914. As a member of the Royal Garrison Artillery, he arrived in France in February 1915 and stayed there until he was demobilised in February of 1919. Both his brothers also served with the youngest contracting TB from which he died in 1921. I have his medals in my possession (including his Imperial Service Medal) and have been able to access his medal card via Ancestry.

Yes, to my shame I can't remember the names of the principal WW1 graveyards in Flanders. I would have thought a field of poppies or maybe the image of a column of marching infantry would be better than a graveyard. Or maybe borrow the design from one of the WW1 medals.

Normandy was WW2 ... but I take your point. Kitchener makes me think of the pop posters of the 1960s. There are so many more fitting ways to commemorate the anniversary of the start of that war.

I agree on the over-grading. There also seems to be some over-bidding going on. And there is still three weeks to go

On their way

Yes, both are at 300 dpi. Just let me know where to send.

Another effortless download to iBooks. Will look forward to reading this.

I have pics of 1787 sixpences both with and without Hearts (the with Hearts is slabbed so you can see where the coin is held) Also a 1797 tuppence (also slabbed),

Update: just back from the post office where a heavy box with four different catalogues was waiting for me: - Eric P. Newman collection Part III - Jan 14 -16 - World and Ancient Coins Auction - Jan 5-6 & Jan 20-21 (2 different catalogues) - World Currency Auction - Jan 9 & 13.

I don't really know which of my coins might be classed as 'formerly middle ground', but I am enjoying the bidding at the Heritage Newman auction on examples which are inferior to my own.

Yep ... I am waiting for a 'liquidity event' at a couple of my investments before I can start splashing the big bucks.

As ever it is up to the buyer to determine the grade and the price he/she will pay. I am going to bid on a few lots. But there is only one coin that I might be willing to pay over the odds on. For the others, they are either not all that scarce or I already have a better example than the one that is up for sale. My Scottish 22/- from Queen Mary is nicer than example that got a MS-63 grade in the NGC holder. One thing I cannot overcome is that the coin displays a couple of instances of tooling. There are other coins that don't make the grade on the holder IMHO but are still very nice examples - I just think plastic factory grading means nothing to me. There are a couple of coins I might swoop in on - but I may well do a crack-out fest in the event I get them. A plastic tomb doesn't a provenance make. I'm not all that bothered by provenance (although I do like my ex. Willis coins). I am after coins that will fit in my collection and which meet my criteria. If it is the right coin then where it comes from is not very important to me.

As ever it is up to the buyer to determine the grade and the price he/she will pay. I am going to bid on a few lots. But there is only one coin that I might be willing to pay over the odds on. For the others, they are either not all that scarce or I already have a better example than the one that is up for sale.

I do too. But, as I travel a lot, this new fangled iBook thingy may be more practical than hauling books around.

Only if it is a 360/65

Looks like a VF - VF+ to me.

Look forward to that!

I would have thought so. If it works on a MacBook, it should work on an Ipad as the MacBook functionality has followed Ipad rather than the other way around. Maybe check on one of the Mac forums.

You may be able to get iBooks from the App Store but I would be very careful to ensure it works under your current operating system. Otherwise, go for the Kindle version. Alternatively, buy a new super-duper Mac. That is what I did after my old one start to go on the blink after 5 years of intensive use. Edit: looks fully illustrated. I have a 2011 Core i5 iMac - that's pretty super-duper! Unfortunately, I'd have to abandon Photoshop (CS2 - one of my 'killer' apps) if I had anything later than Snow Leopard, as it needs Rosetta in order to run. Yep .. that is one of the problems with Macs. That said, on my 2008 Mac (the one I just replaced), I started with Leopard, and upgraded through Lion. My new machine has Maverick but I had no problem loading Photoshop Elements (v 10.0) from my old machine onto the new one. CS2 does appear to be available for later Macs so that might be worth looking at.

You may be able to get iBooks from the App Store but I would be very careful to ensure it works under your current operating system. Otherwise, go for the Kindle version. Alternatively, buy a new super-duper Mac. That is what I did after my old one start to go on the blink after 5 years of intensive use. Edit: looks fully illustrated.

I have seen the collection online and will be bidding .... actually have bid ..... on a number of coins. Have not seen the physical catalogues, however. I don't know if you have to buy them or, as a Heritage customer, you get them automatically. I am in the UK at the moment so do not know what is in the mail at home.

Wow! That was easy. Bought the epub version for iBooks on my MacBook Pro. The whole process took about 30 seconds! First time I will have used an online reference book and only the second time I have downloaded a book to the Mac. So we will see how I get on with this new fangled tek .... tekno .... techlog ..... computer thingy

According to the DNW web site, my lots were shipped today. The rest is down to the UK and US post offices.