Help With Shilling

[Phil 6]

Hi all,

I wondered if anyone can help me identify this Charles 1st shilling - this is outside my normal area so any help much appreciated.

[Rob 3,152]

Sharp E1/1 im. Bell.

[Phil 6]

Sharp E1/1 im. Bell.

Thank you - much appreciated. Would that be Spink 2799?

How would you grade this - I thought AVF?

[Rob 3,152]

Fine

Spink 2791

Edited March 18, 2014 by Rob

[Paulus 1,975]

Sharp E1/1 im. Bell.

Thank you - much appreciated. Would that be Spink 2799?

How would you grade this - I thought AVF?

F - GF for me, but hammered is not really my area!

Edited March 18, 2014 by Paulus

[Phil 6]

Thank you - most helpful

[Rob 3,152]

The reverse is a bit better in the centre, but it is weak at the periphery.

There is a lot of fine detail missing from smoothing. Here's another one.

Edited March 18, 2014 by Rob

[Peckris 579]

What you do is either set up a dummy eBay account, or enlist one or more friends, then rack up lots of bids to simulate frenzied activity on the item you're trying to sell. Hopefully you or your cronies won't thereby win the item, but you can always relist it or offer it to a genuine underbidder.

However, if you're a victim of it (it's not clear from your title), complain to eBay and have them investigate the bidding activity on the item in question; it is an illegal activity after all.

Dave here (azda) is probably the expert on shilling, purely from an observer's point of view I hasten to add

[Debbie 58]

Peck that is almost as bad as my "Mr Benn" comment!

[goomolique 3]

What you do is either set up a dummy eBay account, or enlist one or more friends, then rack up lots of bids to simulate frenzied activity on the item you're trying to sell. Hopefully you or your cronies won't thereby win the item, but you can always relist it or offer it to a genuine underbidder.

However, if you're a victim of it (it's not clear from your title), complain to eBay and have them investigate the bidding activity on the item in question; it is an illegal activity after all.

Dave here (azda) is probably the expert on shilling, purely from an observer's point of view I hasten to add