AardHawk

No its ceasing trading. You can't trade and cease trading all at the same time. Technically you cease trading and go into voluntary liquidation. There used to be a very good company north of the river who could arrange this for you, if you'd pissed it all up against a wall. Peter, umbrellas (aka managed service companies (these days)) are not the answer for IT contractors. You will fall under the IR35 regs whether or not you plan on being there for two years or less). You need to buy an off the shelf ltd company, with two shares issued (£30 + £2). Register for VAT and flat rate vat and run your own payee scheme and file to do company tax returns all via your Government Accoiunt. This will take you no more than 30 minutes online. Pay yourself £968 per month and take dividends for yourself and company secretary. Run a spread sheet to keep a track of incoming and out goings and pay your NI, payee and act each month using the HMRC website. You dont need an acct. You are doing all the work anyway so why give it to a firm of accounts for doing nothing. Don't feed the beast. Aardhawk, IBM mainframe contract AP (retd) for the last 30 years.

No its ceasing trading.

I was never suggesting that anything was for free. What I was say was, that a business needs a sustainable business model. In fact in the UK it has a statutory duty to run at a profit. If you cant make a profit selling 99p items then dont sell them. Find something else to sell. Rob, the business determines what level of expenses it will refund its employees for motoring expenses incurred up to a maximum of 45p for the first 10,000 miles and then 20p (or so) thereafter. This money comes out of profits earned and is payed by the company tax free to the individual before company corporation tax is levied. It has no impact on your prices charged. If the company isnt making a profit them it cant reimburse expenses. You could always reduce motoring expenses to 5p per mile and tell your employee to only go to the post office once a week to reduce costs. You could always ditch your accountant if your turn over is less than £250k (it may be more now). That'll save your company a grand or two a year. I never used an accountant for the last two companies I traded through.

I dont know why everyone has a downer on ebay. As a buyer I like it. I like Paypal as well. In fact I wont buy anything unless I can pay via paypal. All you small want-to-be coin dealers should look at your business model and act accordingly. If Ebay doesn't meet your needs then find another global sales medium (if you can), otherwise stick to coin fairs, local markets, car boots and Chris's for sale forum. Dont forget to look at your actual costs when using these other mediums. Rob your 45p mileage figure is misleading. That is the personal expenses allowance that the HMRC allows you for using your own car on company business for the first 10,000 miles (unless you're an MP, then its 78p per mile).

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I've annotated two of Dave's varieties.

Interesting car Chris. I dont think Ford have ever designed and produced a bad car. They have always been ahead of the curve.

Post decimal? Do you know something we dont?

Lol wot. I know that English isnt azdas language of choice, but I think he was pissed when he wrote that. There's no posting time so cant actually prove that!

I cant understand what you are saying. I dont think you have a clue about the industrial process.

Why do you say a month? A modern coining press is producing at least 500 coins a minute so we are only looking at seven hours production here, assuming that the Royal Mints estimate of less than 200,000 coins is correct..

P47.

I believe that the hacking took place some months ago.

Rob you seem to have your current active window stuck in full screen mode. If you look at the top right of your screen you will see a Minus sign, a small picture of a window and a multiply sign. I dont know whether you have a mouse attached to your computer but try single clicking on the centre symbol. This will reduce the current widow in size and allow you to view the desktop. Just out of interest, what version of windows are you running. Is it Windows XP, 2000, Vista, 7, 8 or 8.1?

Very condescending, as opposed to those of low self esteem who bolster their self importance by talking about how much money they spend buying and selling coins to the hoi polloi.

And now the Chinese will be knocking these out as well.

I like the simplicity of the pound coins. The lighthouse looks okay too. The fifty pence is another low relief piece of crap. I think that celebrating the start of a war that wiped out a generation of young men is in the worst possible taste. The Royal Mint has sunk to new lows. We only need a set commemorating the opening of the first concentration camp to see the Royal Mint in its true light.

I cant see how two clippings occurred simultaneously. They have the wrong positional relationship to each other.

part 2

The original announcement of the discovery was made by David Sealy in the January 1970 issue of Coins.

What do you need to know about? Date widths, sea levels or grained edges?

I think the design process went something like this; 1. 1920-21 mint realises that pennies have bad ghosting on the reverse. 2. As the reverse is bad, then the thing to fix is the reverse. 3. Produce new "experimental" reverse die (Davidrj rev Ca). 4. As part of the process, knock out a few pennies using the existing Obv 3. 5. Damn that didnt fix it. Lob all that lot into the out bucket. No one will notice. 6. Start work on a Modified Effigy (Obv 4). 7. As part of the process, knock out a few pennies using the new obv 4. 8. Damn, who didnt take that old Ca reverse out of the experimental departments press (F196A is produced by accident). 9. Produce some new experimental 4 + B (mythical Freeman 192C). 10. Okay, get shot of these 192Cs, and make sure you put them into the waste bucket this time. (Did they?) 11. Right, now crack on and sort those halfpennies out.

There is some interesting info regarding 1922 penny varieties in the Jan 1972 edition of Coin Monthly. Faro commenting on the pennies of King George V states "Just before decimalisation reports appeared of the finding by collectors of 1922 pennies with the modified reverse used from 1927 to 1936. I am very grateful to the Royal Mint for the information that the reverse master tools of the 1927 type were prepared and experimental dies sunk, in the late summer of 1922. Whether the pennies in question were actually struck in that year is no longer clear from the Royal Mint records nor is it possible to say how many were involved." The one thing that is absolutely certain is that these "experimental dies" were not used in the production of 1927 pennies. Virtually every point on them is different from the 1927 production dies.

Shouldn't the F195A in your list actually be F196A?

There are at least four known date varieties of the 1897 penny as at Apr 1977.