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  1. I recon that my two pound is the .500 issue as it is one tone silver which is quite good because there was not so many of them actually issued. Thanks for the help.
  2. Hi, I have a 1986 commonwealth games silver £2 coin it's in a plastic case and in a plastic capsule but it does not have a frosted finnish that I usually associate with a proof coin. The certificate says Proof £2 coins where .925 silver and an uncirculated coin was .500 silver I was just wondering how you would tell which would be which. Thanks
  3. This could be worthy of a mention in "Check your Change." The royal Mint has started taking cupro-nickel 5 and 10 pence pieces out of circulation. http://www.royalmint.com/discover/uk-coins/cupro-nickel-replacement which will start to make pre 2012 coins scarcer. In a way it's a shame because pre 2008 coins will disappear with the various busts of the Queen and I bet it won't be long before the copper coins start to go future collectors will only find Ian Rank-Broadley busts of the Queen in pocket change and I still miss the pre-decimal collecting days when you could find Victorian coins and pre-1947 silver coins in your change.
  4. David

    CROWNS

    Hi, I collect modern crowns and recently I've bought a couple of £5 coins one from Gibraltar 2002 and the other from the Isle of Man 1995 and they have a frosted finnish on the reverse and obverse, I know that modern United Kingdom proof coins have a frosted finnish so are these coins proof or do these two countries produce frosted finnish coins for general use.
  5. David

    Decimal coin values

    Don't worry about the supply of proof sets drying up unless there is a huge upturn in the number of collectors. You can always pick up any year fairly easily. Maybe not the first person you see, but certainly within a few table visits. It is therefore logical to cater for those who collect individual denominations. If I have duplicate year sets I will usually break the one with the worst condition packaging to provide the singletons. No qualms. As I have done in the past, also without qualms. I'm glad someone had no qualms about breaking up the ex-Norweb 1935 set or I'd never have got my hands on the penny Happens all the time. I got all my Cu-Ni 1958 proofs because Colin Adams had to buy the set from the Circular for the halfcrown. He had no problem finding a willing buyer. I'm glad I've had this chat it would appear that collecting coin sets could be a good collectable because, (A) people are not interested so they can be bought at fairly reasonable prices. ( The individual coin prices could total up to more than I pay for the set. © Although they are easy to find the have low mintages and contain coins that were never in circulation. (D) Collectors will break up sets for individual coins which could make sets scarce. So I shall continue to collect decimal sets and proofs until I have as full a set as I can. Thank You for the feed back. Dave
  6. David

    Decimal coin values

    I'm not collecting for profit but it's nice to know that the coins in my sets are worth more than what I paid for them using your "Check your change" there is £25 pounds individual coin value in the set I paid £15 It's a nice set of coins all preserved in it's own packaging with a certificate. Thanks for the reply.
  7. David

    Decimal coin values

    I like decimal coinage and I am starting to collect proof year sets I think it's great when you buy a set with a coin in that was never issued for circulation they look nice in the presentation box and in my local shop I can buy them for around £15 to £30. Now the thing is how come individual proof coins can add up to a value greater than a proof set for example in the Coin Yearbook 2010 the 1986 set is priced at £30 but the total of coins priced individually total £49 I would of thought that one price would reflect the other and that the price of a set would equal that of the individual coins or maybe be slightly higher in price for a set as it would have the box a certificate. Does anyone have any thoughts on this subject? The 1986 set I bought yesterday was £15 so I think I got a real bargain either way.
  8. Hi, I've just made a £25 impulse buy! I bought a set of 7 1962 South Africa coins 50cent 20cent 10cent 5cent 2 1/2 cent 1cent and half cent coin in a red box inside the lid is a name and address A. Bickel, Coins and Medals, 151 Jeppe street Johannesburgh. I was wondering if anyone else has a boxed set like this is it a mint proof set? or a set that has been made up by this Bickel shop? The coins have some tarnish but they look uncirculated. Thanks
  9. Thanks for all the info. I've now started wondering about the mintage figures in coin books I take it that they will be official mint figures of coins produced for a particular year. This being the case when coins are changed/demonetized most people would probably pay their coins into the bank where the would probably be melted down so this could mean that some of my coins I have for example a 1829 farthing mintage 1,505,280 and a 1956 farthing mintage 1,996,800 these figures could be much lower than we think. I wonder if someone should start The great online database of coins where people could add their coins and it would give a running total of how many coins have been logged/survived for each year. Dave.
  10. I've read in books about the recoinage of 1860 was this an event like 1971 where new coins were introduced and anything before those dates were taken out of circulation? Thanks for any help. Dave.
  11. I just thought I would let you know an interesting conversation I had with my local coin dealer. A few days ago I had seen two sliver proof two pound coins they were in their coin capsules but did not have the case or the certificate at the time I did not have the cash to buy them but when I went back yesterday they were gone the dealer said "They might have been sold or melted down thats why we do not have many silver coins in stock at the moment because of the price of silver we melt them down to sell the silver." I thought this rather interesting because if dealers are melting silver coins I think that some time in the future Those of us who have collections of silver coins could end up with rare coins because most silver proofs have a quit low mintage to start with. It could also play havoc with mintage figures in coin books because over a period of time no one will know how many coins are circulating. I had already know that older pre-decimal silver coins were melted but I never thought that people would melt modern proof coins.
  12. David

    Sideline collection ~ £2 coins

    The local coin shop that I go to gives the old £2 coins as change over the past few months I have received a 1986 Commonwealth games £2 and a 1995 Dove of peace in my change. Also a mint looking 2000 £1 coin, my personal theory is that the shop owner opens BU sets to use for change in the till.
  13. Hi, I found a Egyptian Arch one pound coin where to the naked eye the E in the One looks like a Z. Using a magnifying glass the E is mis-struck and the gap at the top of the E is filled in has anyone else found one of these? Sorry if this has already been discussed but I've just found it and I am new to the forum. I just want to know if it is unusual or a common coin to find. Thanks Dave Kane.
  14. David

    Hello

    Thanks for that, I think I'm leaning towards plastic envelopes because you can pick the coin up,see it clearly and feel the weight, I'm going to a coin fair at Tynemouth on Sunday so I hope I'll get some there along with a very rare coin of some sort for a couple of quid that nobody else noticed
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