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they are legal tender, people sometimes come into the dealer with some of these £2 coins (common ones) and tells em to go spend it. so yes they are, and so are £5 i believe, not seen any though.

well the minting figues for 08 are out too, cant wait to get hold of this i never see the book, and i really want a copy with the new coins in.

scrap that.. found some pictures, of each one, and the 7+G version, seems i cant find much on 1862 7+G halfpenny, most i have seen have no rocks.

bought a bulk of coins on ebay for about £3 (including postage) had about 30 coins in it so good value, i bought it on the gamble of a few coins that looked like they had been buried. anyway need soe help with values for 2 coins i got in here i cant work out with colectors coins GB 1860 penny (afair) FMAN 4 (the 1860 penny with the clear signiture under victoria) and this 1862 halfpenny - details, some damage from being in the ground, (if it didnt have the ground damage would be AVF) but basically, it has a small A next to the lighthouse (top point of the A points at the lighthouse) its hard to spot as the size of the A and the angle makes it almost look like rocks so its easy to miss. But there are no rocks on 1862 halfpennys to the left of the lighthouse, the main thing i have is i have seen the picture of the B and its upright not tilted 90 degrees clockwise. any idea of a value, (i'm saying its about the same as the VG 1862 B?) Sadly i dont have picture of it, but what is the rarity of these coins with die letters, and what should i do with it?

got one today (has tiny little cuds on the queen) but this is the first time i have seen one, are these old style 20p's worth holding on to?

perhaps banks have em in the vaults. i have seen a few technology £2 coins, kept 2 back that have errors.

i have the old style 10p i think... are there any old style 50p's at all?

there was another set auctioned in australia i believe. wonder how many of these there are

whats the condition of pre 1895's? i like those victoria bun head coins. pictures of the rarer and early pieces would give us a general idea

well i dont see why an extra 5-6 pages just to cover a few extra veriants would do no harom.. i know there are plenty there and that was why i bought it (budget and covered more recent stuff... coins market values has nothing for 1885 farthing let alone variants....) was checking some of my recent farthing purchases and found them on myfarthing but not in the book. while we are on the subject, we want a grading book for hammered, the one key thing i find missing is, early hammered been picking up pre 1799's to cover a monarch run, now i know there are loads of differant veriaties for those but a rough guide to those would be good.

ohh. i have a few ideas myself. i do think a hammered grading book is needed though. my ideas book of modern variants, so many victorian coins and some are very hard to work out without pictures, looking on myfarthings.com shows a few variants not listed in the book. well i guess the larger books cover them all but just a book on victorian variants would be great budget collecting.

its prussian no idea of denomination though

yea i was thinking french too

could always run through most common hammered first, that would get a good base.

well i have a copy of coin market values 1999 which shows 3 examples for grading early hammered, henry 7 groat and a william 4 shilling for hammered Fine is more like poor/fair in later milled from what i see in this, but yes such a task would be rediculous, as you will have differant strike strengths, allignments, chips, bits broken off etc.

i havn't seen this book, but would love to have a look at general grades so i can decide myself, seen a 1920 halfpenny at UNC but it has some red spots on luste (yellow) and the detail in the sea on in hair is faint.. hard to decide. yet i got a nice 1861 farthing for the "Fine" price, even though it has some lustre and i see no signs of wear on victoria so again... hard to grade it. would be interested to see what fair is in victoria copper and victoira bronze

i have one, not in very good condition, but i can see the date clearly and brittania is there.. the question is.. is this the type A? the end of the 4 ends in / (imagine 2 lines at top and bottom of that ) shape. and if it is type A, how much in poor condition?

yea would be right, but didnt they also change the metal %'s in the war years, at least the mint used the same established coin designs and coloured metals and didn't go to the horrible zinc, lower demand might also explain why we have the 50-52 pennies as rare pieces

need some confirmation on this but i think so far there are 3 variants of the 2008 shield 20p 1. the mule of course 2. the TY of twenty Touch the rim (the Twenty isn't alinged to pence), there is a picture of one somewhere on here... 3. Twenty is aligned properly - look at 2009 20p on the royal mint site

old and new sizes, anything post 1968. currently sorting through my 1992 10ps (found 3 differant veriaties, still looking for that 4th one), was wondering which is the most scarce? the things i did find so far: 1992 small head 20p (probably not worth anything but i heard its the rarer version) 1985 50p, again it has been in circulation for a while so condition isn't the best, BUT i heard there were only around 650,000 minted and giving that people returned old 50's for new 50's back in 97, i was wondering.. how many of that mintage would remain? all? or do the mint melt the old ones down? also have a very nice 1994 50p (i kept that back when i first got it so its in very nice condition with full luste). i have found a fair few minor errors i think cuds? (random raised blobs on pennies and 5p's) but will pennies there are other ones, that looks like it has wear (might be bad plating though can see a silvery colour in some spots this could be effecting the minting quality). interesting 2 5p's with a blob in the same spot on both (although one has a 2nd blob). and a 2000 penny with a hole in the copper plate on the queens hair (its in mint condition so you can see it through the lustre) also some full lustre 1983 and 1992 pounds will probably try and get books on it as this sort of collecting is very interesting as i can get these coins for face value and don't have to spend sums buying rarer and nice coins as the general population wouldn't know about the 4 1992 10p's or the small head 1992 20p, or how many of a particular coin is made, so there is no trade for them (except the mule 20p) next i have to go through my 5p's 2p's and pennies (got lots of these coppers) so hopefully i can find something interesting (i heard rumours of a differant rimmed 1990 5p?)

yea but only £2.20, cant even properly see the date...

is it me or have there been more fake £1's, past few weeks i have found 2, sadly they are so obvious (wrong obverse with reverse, bigger, smudgier legends, obverse/reverse dont even align, there is hardly any detail on the designs), how are these even getting into circulation so easily

yea i have found something nice, type 5 1992 10p (15% of the total mintage) (the later issue) with a nice lustre and almost full detail on the queen (a bit of light light wear on the hair) shame other side has large scrates no type 3 or 4's though been putting it to one side... still looking as i get but been looking through my currents, i got a cud on my 1844 half farthing lol

its about where the number points, the 1 to the rim dot rather then between them or something

was only posting what collectors coin GB says for minting figues and value, compared to other penny minting figues 1-2 milliopn is not that many most pennies are around 40-50 million mintage, except for those KH and H ones of course, my 1999 coins market values lists it as worthless at VF , there is a site selling a 1926 in under for £2.50 btw so you can get them cheap 1932 has 8,277,600 mintage only, but is only worth a fraction more then 1931 1947 has 2,220,400 but worth the same as others around it