secret santa

Get those pennies up asap !!!!

Does anyone know if Ron Stafford is still around ? I used to exchange letters but haven't heard from him for a few years.

I'm not a million miles away (south oxon) and find that offer rather tantalising...........

The latest email from Sovereign Rarities lists coins variously described as "Deep Cameo" and "Ultra Cameo". Are these places just trying to invent grades to get more money out of collectors ?

And the king's moustache has been twirled on the right coin - or is it Hercule Poirot ????

OK - I've just unplugged/replugged the modem and all is fine !

No, I select English single lots - page 1; comes up but when I try to click on next page or any other page, screen just displays "can't be found."

Is anyone else having trouble checking the realised prices ?

Peter Nichols will always make you a couple of extra drawers, I'm sure.

Hang on, the screenshot shows lot 72 and this thread is all about lot 74 !!!!!!!!!!

Good news Pete. perfect timing for Christmas.

To misquote my hero Tony Hancock, "It might be only a coin to you, Pete, but it's life and death to some poor (collector) wretch"

There is at least one auction house (it may be Goldberg) that allow you to specify an incremental bid or halfbid in the event of your highest bid being matched. Seems a good idea. I still have a problem with the case you illustrate. If I submit a maximum bid of, say, £500, I expect the lot to go to at least the next bidding step to overbid me. I think that is a reasonable and logical assumption. So, when the auctioneer takes my bid of £480 in sequence and asks for a bid of £500, he should in my opinion have to take a higher bid to outbid my commission bid. But clearly, this doesn't necessarily happen.

I think that this does happen (it's happened to me) but surely if I were the first person to bid £500, the auctioneer should be duty and morally bound to ask another bidder to go higher in order to win ?????

Like I mentioned in the other thread, often an auctioneer will let a lot go to a room bidder who matches the maximum postal/commission bid - unethical in my view.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/1861-Great-Britain-One-Penny-No-LCW-No-Signature-George-III-Penny-KM-794-2/263337867083?hash=item3d5028f74b:g:aPcAAOSwySlaFPJq George III in drag ???????

Yes, but to state the obvious, this is an example of a different reverse variety rather than a variation of date spacing.

Didn't know that fact before. Hope I'm a bit more polite when I snuff it.

As Rob says, if there is only a handful known of a particular variety, collectors will snap them up regardless of condition. Some of the coins on my website are little better than washers, yet have sold for hundreds of pounds !

Take a look through my rarest penny website (below) - the pennies featured there will still be worth quite a bit even if corroded like yours.

very clever, not seen that before.

Thanks sabrejv, all useful information.

Yes, interesting. It would be good if we could get a Royal Mint comment/perspective.

Like Arsene Wenger, I see nothing.......

So, Rob, are you saying that all proofs are struck in the same way but some emerge with the "super sharp" effigy and mirror fields ? i.e. all proofs are equal but some are more equal than others ?