jimmy_goodfella

lovley find smudge its amazing how good a condition that is in considering its probably been lying in the mud for over 400 years.

i think the lettering looks cast. has that grainy look to me

thats something i would love to do, go see some fine collections and no better place than there. i guess you could say a collector group would love a visit, after all aint that what we all are? be a good day out for all, sign me up

looks cast to me maybe done in metalwork at school

will have to get the coin craft book myself, sounds intresting.

coin addict get a few books im serious ya definetly need to get a couple of books, it will help you also to decied on which direction you wish to go, you cant realy learn going all over the place.First you gotta learn something about certain areas or your gonna get information overload.

agree peter i would give a tenner for that coin anytime.i could see it making double that, maybe even more.its still in a collectable grade, a nice filler till something better comes along.

coin on the left is basal state not worth anything at all. The coin on the right is indeed a gaming token available on ebay for around 1 pound. let it go

ok the best coin you have there is the 1908 florin/two shillings though unluckly its not in gerat condition in that state worth about 10 pounds. the crown is worth about the same, just a shame once again the poor grade of them all. at a push you have there about 25 pounds worth of coins. but better still you have a starting collection

well another way is make in pine but line the inside with cloth/velvet. mahogany is not that easy to get a hold of now and the cost is quite prohibitive, perhaps though you can buy a wrecked table or something at an auction and break it up for the wood but new mahogany is truly expensive many types been now illegal to import as it comes mainly from rainforests.its costing 70 pounds a metre for mahogany parky flooring now.

looking forward to finding out what it is myself now shame about condition

sorry 5-600 for a decent detector, even they only seem considered average from the guru;s.

my other intrest is fishing i go least once a week onto the beach or on a local pier and fish for about 6 hours.its even better than collecting coins for me. ive always been a reader, and for years was averaging about 3 books a week till the internet came along and had all that info without going to a library.now i mostly look and read refrence books on coins and fishing magazines. a future hobby that would fit right in with my other 2 would be metal detecting i could fish while detecting and maybe get a coin for my coin collection hobby.I just been told not to buy a cheap detector and go for a good one but there 5-66 pounds + ach and its hard to justify the outlay just now, id rather add to my silver collection. heres hoping i rush over to a car thats just arrived at the car boot sale and they pull out a whites md and for a tenner.

just be thankful;l we at least have 3 main parties to vote for uinlike the usa. im voting lib dem the main reason is that there are millions of people in the uk earning low wages that are actuially paying so much more tax than them on higher wages as a percentage of income. i know people on 200 pounds a week taking home 9k and there then paying out around 1000 pounds of this in council tax.the same as if they were earning 20k, this just aint right. So im voting lib dem on the main policy they will abolish council tax and bring in the fairer system of local income tax like usa/australia and many others have.Its crazy for everyone no matter what they earn to be taxed the same. im also voting for them because all i see around me is government workers everywhere, everyone seems to be working for the government these days. And everyone in the government all had huge pay rises over people that dont work for it.This i believe was mainly responsible for the house price inflation as the minute they gave nurses 25% payrises and teachers 35% pay rises and every one else was the moment house prices went through the roof as others not working for the government didint get these pay rises its made a two tier society where the people in the safe/nice pension/secure/less ahrd working enviroment are now those in the better position than most.that just aint right. i also cant vote conservative as it would sicken me to the core to vote for the party that turned scotland into the test ground for every unpleasant tax in the uk and destroyed the whole of scotlands industry, when i left school in 86 there was about 50% unemployment where i lived and everykid left school without any hope of all of a job, it ruined whole generations. i got out, i moved and then things got better but thats no consellation for they hard times the whole country felt. i live in blackpool england now and i had a msg on my answermachine yesterday with gordon marshal my local mp asking if he can depend on my vote. thats one call i regret missing. Vote lib dem and save your soul

heya best you post a picture of it. i would love to take up metal detecting but with my coin hobby and fishing and work i just cant find the time, it must be great hobby to do. post the pic will help all to identify and if they cant here then god knows where ya will identify it. sounds like a token there were so many of these tokens made seemed every factory,mine,church,butchers shop, made tokens as well as tokens to commemerate all kind of bridges , military succeses, people ect. i find it fascinating that in times coin collecting wasint as pro active as today this was the case.where now this is not done.

as a kid i remember getting a few silver sixpences thats about it, had lot of the george shillings ect they were very numerous till about 1980 or so

yeah could be a copy of the very first sovereign hendry vii 1489, theres a pic of it from the british museum in m.a.marsh book the gold soveriegn. was also a copy made of it to commemorate 500 years of the sovereign.would be quite easy to mistake for a woman from the uninformed due to the long hair ect. http://www.goldsovereigns.co.uk/firstsovereign.html theres a pic of the copy on chards site.also one of the eliz 1st sovereign on the same page. the soveriegn was actually copied in a lot of its detail from i think a dutch coin id have to hunt out the book to find the correct coin it was copied from.only one known as well and its in the british museum. no idea what im doing up at this time

na it was steve harley make me smile is a good song they did

heya sylvester been a while since i seen ya about.funny how wherever ya go the same peopel are there .i think ive talked to or dealt with half the people on here:). yes that picture cuts off the top where the main nick is. i think if that could be shown then at least we would know one way or the other it this is the same coin. im suspicious of the fact its been photographed like this in the first place though. does anyone have dimensions for each of the coins? then we could assertain if they would fit together neatly with any clipping

I have found this auction on ebay. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1 my suspicious mind has been doing somersaults. this is the most important world cup medal of the usa world cup, romario won the player of the year the same year ect. Why would he get rid of his world cup medal. what confuses me is the seller has a good feedback, i trolled google looking for a news article or whatever on him giving this medal up for charity or whatever but found nothing.im sure it would have been a big topic of discussion especially in sport memrobilia forums. i know this aint realy the place for medals but i just thought i would put this here as no-where on this site for medals. opinions please. the truth is if this medal is genuine i would pay that for it

what i cant understand about that coin is the nicks on the second reverse are not showing up in the britannia reverse. looking at the pictures they rim nicks surely go through to the britannia side but the photos dont show this ???? im gonna go with this aint the same coin at all in the 2 photos.

might be worth seeing a photo of the rim as well, it might bring up some clues

cdsteve is selling reproductions but he does state this, i doubt he sells any of the one he lists checking his feedback. Also the job lots he sells of tat are cheap ie 2.99,3.99 ect for 50 low grade coins.i realy cant see a problem with that, you get what you pay for. I havent dealt with him just saying as i see it. putting your items for sale in the best light possible is a tricky thing, obviously you want to potrait your items in the best way, but its when you tip over the edge from flowery wording to downright lies that the problems begin. Ive sold a few items before where i might have been over optomistic on the grade, but do show a unaltered clear photo.This mainly down to inexpeirience of the grade the type of coin deserved. I now let the customer deciede the grade for themselves often this can pay off as often the customer will grade it higher than i do.

pennies i know nothing about but some sure make good money.guess i will need to memorise a few dates in my head of them incase they come along sometime.

hello does anyone know the date for the harrogate coin show. also any info on other coin shows and auctions in north of england