Jamesred

Hi folks Excuse my ignorance, What is the problem with the 1988 one pound coin?? i got one in my change today Cheers Jim

Cant believe its been so long since i have had time to look at coins!! Chris - I know its nearly 2009 but i cant get the book from WHS in Jersey :-(( Do you have it in E-book format? Cheers

All The time has come for me to start shifting the coins on the website - I am putting them on Ebay Times are hard so if I can shift these it will help a lot! 1799 - 1837 on there now the rest will come over the next few days Cheers

I can only agree with comments posted so far. The striking, if it is not cast, is weak, the lettering BP just looks wrong, the lettering is a slightly different font as the uprights are thinner than I would expect and the M is not at all like any of the other Ms on the sovereign or like the font for the S on the Sydney £2 ( 8 known). That said the size and weight are correct but how did you have the gold content assayed at 22ct. ? I would be interested in such a piece as a forgery but without provenance this must be recognised for what it is. I got a large "Chocolate Coin" for xmas it was like this!! Young head Vic on a 67 Half penny reverse lol - The choclate was good though!

Scott the easiest identifier is the tide in relation to the corner of the rock. They can be found artifically darkened a lot easier, but the light finish coins, are much scarcer, but this can only be confirmed on highly lustrous coins, because they generally tone down very similarly. Here is the proper link www.myfarthings.co.uk/victoriavh1897.html

Just got myself a bright finish Low Horizon 1897 farthing only £7.00!! See Pics

Scott the easiest identifier is the tide in relation to the corner of the rock. They can be found artifically darkened a lot easier, but the light finish coins, are much scarcer, but this can only be confirmed on highly lustrous coins, because they generally tone down very similarly. Here is the proper link www.myfarthings.co.uk/victoriavh1897.htm

Is that like having a half set of falsers and a real set?? You should name the dealer - so everyone can avoid!!

Now on site http://www.myfarthings.co.uk/victoriavh1897.html

I didn't realise it was a 6 year old post until you said that !!

I just noticed this on Ebay.fr and took a punt on it £8.00 total paid for it! http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...T#ht_546wt_1165 What grade would you put it as?

Funny, My wife says that all of the time when I try to talk to her about coins, usually along the lines if "what did you spend this money on?" ah well she gets it now.

:huh: Silly question time fella's What exactly is W.W and where on the coin can i find it? Appologies for the stupidity of the question but its gone straight over my head? The WW is for William Wyon who modelled the head of Queen Victoria on the coin. If you look at most coins even today they have the initials of the designer. Hope that helps James

Hi All I am just looking at 1847 tonight and have noticed a definite difference in the lettering of REG across 3 types. I have masked the 3 for the first pic and the rest separately What do you think? Actual coins will be on www.myfarthings.co.uk I lined up on the colon !

Most of my collection have these errors (speaking about young head farthings) and yes they are common. That why myself and Colin don't have them on our sites - I was talking originally about the misalignment of the letters in REG

I dont think so, looking at the whole coin, there are a lot looking like that. I have attached another 2 close ups, On BRITANNIAR only the First N and r appear to be OK, the rest like as you see. The trident, arm of Britannia and the Thistle etc.. at the bottom also show signs of doubling up. So looks like its a whole re punch. The Obverse is completely clear of any errors! Look at the COLON to see what I mean

People search eBay on high prices? What on earth for? If I'm not looking for anything specific (or a particular seller) I sort by 1) ends soonest or 2) recently added Why would I look for something expensive??? I do it the same way - don't think I have ever looked for a coin by high value!! I agree with Chris though - I saw it come on when looking at recently listed and didn't even bother to look. And yes i thought - yep here's another one!

Nice job - just need to correct you on 1914 and 1915 farthings (haven't looked further than Geo V) - there are TWO known varieties of each farthing for those dates (a different obverse introduced in 1914). Also, in 1918, there is only 1 obverse and reverse - the "variety" as such, is that some farthings were darkened at the Mint like pre-1918s, others were issued with full lustre. Hi Chris Believe it or not i was just looking at those 2 pages, was checking the coins that i have and realised my error!! Both have been changed. I have said "Varieties" though as you say some may not strictly be a variety but as you say merely a Dark/Light one. but i thought i would keep it easy. Saying that i am going to put on the pages where these are, a bit about why they did it. Cheers

She has bought me a fancy camera this year!!! Talking about back log of coins? i have about 400 farthings to look at and Christmas is just around the corner as well. Ah well will get some done tonight! Cheers

As usual Chris as soon as they are ready can i have a copy?? Cheers been away for a while but back on now. Doen the site over as well www.myfarthings.co.uk

Should have said the coins section under personal for the moment until i get huge amouts of sites and then will change over to database functions.

Hi Guys - long time no speak!! been busy with some new projects OK This is a wee bit of an ad so apologies for that! I have started a new website called www.tryingtofinda.com The aim is to get it as large as possible (obviously) I have added a few of the members sites to get me started and have now over 100 sites on teher with god knows how many emails to get through in 48 hours I have added the following site coins4u.net predecimal.com aboutfarthings.com colincooke.com coinsgb.com If anyone else would like to add their site (Free of charge of course) please click on the add site button and follow the instructions. either that or just post your url in this topic! Cheers guys

Ok I have now put up a test page for the images Test Page Top Image is basic you click on it and it goes to full image - Simple Image 2 - hover over with mouse and it enlarges to full size image - mouse off it reverts to original Image 3 - Goes into the Picture ox - I like this and was why i was reducing the size of the images to fit on main screen Image 4 - My Favourite - Magnifys the image in parts move mouse around and use arrow keys up and down to zoom in and out as well. What does everyone else think? would love to hear some feedback on this, Once you have checked out the test page have a look at the main site and send a message through the form there. cheers again guys

OK Thats the site complete, with the 2 graphics things attached and all on black background www.myfarthings.co.uk Time to start on a couple of new projects!! Thanks for all of your help so far James