Jump to content
British Coin Forum - Predecimal.com

50 Years of RotographicCoinpublications.com A Rotographic Imprint. Price guide reference book publishers since 1959. Lots of books on coins, banknotes and medals. Please visit and like Coin Publications on Facebook for offers and updates.

Coin Publications on Facebook

   Rotographic    

The current range of books. Click the image above to see them on Amazon (printed and Kindle format). More info on coinpublications.com

predecimal.comPredecimal.com. One of the most popular websites on British pre-decimal coins, with hundreds of coins for sale, advice for beginners and interesting information.

blakeyboy

Accomplished Collector
  • Content Count

    1,766
  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    94

Everything posted by blakeyboy

  1. I was second bid on 1994 - the Freeman 76. I'm glad I didn't attend, if reports (above) of how the auction is handled are true....
  2. blakeyboy

    York Archiepiscopal Mint

    Archie Piscopal ran a pub in Dulwich in the 1980's if I remember correctly...
  3. blakeyboy

    penny 1874h F76

    Thanks Richard - I was the 'room bidder'...nearly there and in the ball park. Any more plus premium and i would have had to sleep in the shed....... Again.
  4. blakeyboy

    Ebay's Worst Offerings

    Does an Ebay agreement have a Sanity Clause?
  5. blakeyboy

    Any ideas what this coin could be please?

    Or, email the picture to yourself, selecting the image size so your received email from you has a picture below .5Mb!
  6. blakeyboy

    penny 1874h F76

    Oh thank you Richard. If I win, it'll be the best sixteen quid I've ever spent. What??
  7. blakeyboy

    More Pennies

    I tried to keep up standards by also including a plural compound noun....:) As a certain N. Molesworth said: A tool shed is where you keep tools A bike shed is where you keep bikes. A watershed is where you keep water.
  8. blakeyboy

    More Pennies

    EXACTLY!!!! Pete, that's my punchline taken away, and I don't care...!
  9. blakeyboy

    penny 1874h F76

    Thanks for all the advice chaps. Bid Number received, bid placed.
  10. blakeyboy

    More Pennies

    Incidentally, do you know why divers fall backwards out of a boat?
  11. blakeyboy

    More Pennies

    As usual, I sea the Punmeisters General have started their outboards and are going overboard plumbing the depths. It was only a matter of time for the jokes to hit rock bottom. I'm not going to join in. I don't give in to pier pressure. I'm not that gullible.
  12. Ooh me head. Barbecue at a friend's place. As the tension rose, the measures of Malt got bigger....
  13. blakeyboy

    F164a?

    It's PE, obviously. Otherwise you'd be 'Enckris 2'.....
  14. blakeyboy

    F164a?

    Exactly Mike. It's all dependant on how many are first discovered, and what appeals at that time, or is fashionable. You can say there are 4 types of the 1908, or not bother at all and say there is just one type. If the latter, then there is no 1926ME, 1911 hollow neck, 1903 open 3 etc. The 1874 series would be half as big..... What about the 1890 dropped 90? Try finding one..... I have an 1880 with sea by the ship missing. So what. But, if it's a 1934, everyone is interested. You have to have that 'magic ammount' found- not quite enough to go round, but _just_ enough discovered for people to feel they are missing out by not having one......! ( The exception to this is when clearly there was a _set_ of dies made, but one obviously missing. An 1862 halfpenny with a 'D', or more spectacularly, an 1863 with a clear '1' below the date turns up.....see what happens....)
  15. blakeyboy

    F164a?

    Yep- that makes sense. Mind you, if, as seems likely, that most 1908's in good nick have been examined, then from how many there are and how many of them are 164a, you could judge the actual 164a mintage....
  16. blakeyboy

    F164a?

    Sounds about right, though it's rarity, as a percentage, is surely exactly the same as worn examples....how could it possibly be otherwise? If I'm thinking straight, if the percentage of EF+ examples in the total extant population is larger than the percentage of 164a's in the total minted population, then high grades may well be out there. If it's lower, there won't likely be any. Same as the 1903 open 3.
  17. blakeyboy

    More Pennies

    What unusual wear! Or as often used on Ebay, 'ware'.
  18. Nice. As I've said before on here, the story behind a coin should be better than the coin's value...
  19. blakeyboy

    Ebay's Worst Offerings

    And many are just plain 'dug up' too....
  20. blakeyboy

    Ebay's Worst Offerings

    Just got it!!!
  21. blakeyboy

    Ebay's Worst Offerings

    This one is actually rather refreshing..... https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2000-ONE-PENNY-COIN-COPPER-PLATED-STEEL-ELIZABETH-II-EXTREMELY-COMMON/401845135170?hash=item5d8fd62742:g:NOsAAOSwGhBdUUan
  22. This is all very similar to what goes on in primary cells. Or indeed when a galvanised roof has a bad scratch- once you have the two different metals exposed to rainwater, a cell is formed that is basically short-circuited, so a toroidal current path forms, the chlorides get to work, and the roof has a hole in it in a shorter time than if it hadn't been galvanised.....
  23. blakeyboy

    What is the Actual Mintage of the 1983 Two "NEW PENCE"?

    I've just looked on Ebay under "two pence 1983". Nearly 100 hopeful twats pitching the usual crap. Do you have a link to the coin you mean?
×