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14 hours ago, DonnaML said:

What's a nonce? Not a slang term I've ever heard here in the USA. I know what a ponce is, but not a nonce!

Hey sorry Donna, a nonce is an English term for a paedophile.

https://news.sky.com/story/metal-detectorists-sentenced-to-more-than-five-years-in-jail-12872775

They were given 5 years 2 months.

Sad thing is a lot of nonces here in the UK get less time than that.

So they left a paper trail and admitted they were from a hoard to an academic.

If he simply said they were a bootfare (garage sale for you yanks) or they were left to him from his great uncle Jimmy there would have unlikely been an undercover sting.

I assumed this article was a week old as that mugshot surely had to be an April fools! Nope!

All she had to do was act like a normal postal service worker and just steal drugs from the mail lol!

What were they thinking trying to sell stolen coins as each can be identified uniquely from the little nicks and scratches and wear. I mean they could have just melted then down and sold the gold for scrap.

Well least he's dead and she's unlikely to ever be allowed to work for the postal service again.

10 hours ago, Kaleun96 said:

Aaron and Mike of HJB discuss the events in their latest podcast episode:

 

Yeah I watched that this morning, fair play to Mr Berk (sniggers in cockney rhyming slang 😅) and Mike for bringing it up.

They could have easily not said anything about it and not had to disparage someone Arron does business with. In fairness Aaron did point out that he does like Richard as a person even if he doesn't agree with his actions.

I'd be a bit miffed if I was the wine sponsor though, they didn't even show a bottle of it on the video or post the link to the wine company on the video.

1 hour ago, Sol_Invictus said:

In light of these various reports, I’m curious as to which auction houses, if any, people consider to be most likely to actually be trustworthy? To me trustworthy means not intentionally misrepresenting coins, such as faking provenances, selling modern fakes, or knowingly selling coins that they don’t have a clear title to (stolen or looted material that they know is illegal for them to sell in whatever country they’re selling from; or failing to make a good faith effort to do whatever due diligence may be required in their country to verify title/provenance). I personally consider shill bidding to be a secondary issue, even if it’s deceptive, since there is nothing forcing me to bid more than I’m willing to pay for the coin.

As bad as it sounds, so long as the coin is genuine and has not been stolen (IE on a stolen property database), I couldn't care less about the provenance.

Hey,

After reading about the Eid mar being repatriated to Greece, and the US governments hostilities towards ancient numismatists. I'm wondering does NGC grade ancients outside of the United States?

I'd rather not risk sending my coins to the US for the foreseeable future but would like to get a few graded.

https://archive.ph/k10fa

Article without the NYT paywall