Coinery

Thanks very much, an interesting read, much appreciated! My only confusion is with the ‘trading allowance’…when they say ‘earn’ £1000, do they mean profit or gross sales? Because £1000 worth of sales could generate £50 or £900 of profit? “If the total amount you earn via a platform in a tax year is £1,000 OR LESS, you probably don't need to tell HMRC or pay any extra tax This is because you're likely covered by what's known as the 'trading allowance'. This entitles you to earn up to £1,000 tax-free without having to report the income to HMRC or pay any income tax on it.”

How do they determine what is £1000 profit? Also, where does the person stand who buys a lot of say 5 coins, just for a single coin he/she wants, and wishes to dispose of the others? That would be a huge pain having to complete tax forms for that! And what about regularly selling your old clothes, etc., imagine having to prove what’s profit, without keeping every receipt for every item you ever buy? Plus, they say £1000 profit, but if you’re having to be accountable like a business, then a room in your house, the electric and heating, data use, computers, books bought, fuel and motor expenses, etc., etc., all have to be taken into account!

In the very, very, beginning I used to use olive oil, until I discovered it wasn’t benign at all. Olive oil is actually a weak acid, apparently characterised by an acidity between 1-2%. Just taking a quick Look at fingerprint oil, it looks to be 95-99% water and measuring anything up to 5 on the PH scale, which I read makes it comparable to black coffee. Needless to say I had an anxious few weeks decontaminating all my coins with acetone and sealing them back up again in airtight coin flips! To be honest, though, I don’t think the dry, ambient air of modern households would notably tone a coin more after decontamination with acetone, than it would before, but everyone to their own experience and views on this, I do however choose to keep mine in flips anyway.

You can do much, MUCH, better than that for £220! I couldn’t tolerate those spots for that price tag. Also, I wouldn’t let the hands stress you out too much, as long as you’re prepared to degrease it when it arrives. I degrease all of my milled, even occasionally hammered. Take a look at the threads surrounding acetone (surgical, not nail removal stuff with moisturisers), see what you think?

Has FB anything to do with the lack of interest/engagement in old, fuddy-duddy, antiquated forum groups? Are there new ways that people are getting their coin engagements and fixes? What’s your thoughts?

Ah, well, who needs Freeman when you have Richard’s headsntails14 site! It’s funny though, but my badly wired brain always reads it Heads n Snails!

Have you heard of any re-runs on the grapevine?

This made me smile that, in the title, the seller drew attention to the fact it was holed, as if to avoid its other more noteworthy issues! https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/186237807944?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=csjIN_gZTVq&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=qduwzHkQTWC&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

And I even managed to buy a book…so everything is now working perfectly!

All good now so must have been!

Ah, OK, that makes sense. Quick work in acquiring a top grade example

I’ve just been looking at the two links PWA initially put up of the narrow dates he’d found, just to take a closer look at the waves, wondering if it was wear/strike that was affecting the shape? Anyway, again it could lighting, but I wonder if the hem of the drape/dress is also potentially different?

This could be a lighting phenomenon on this one but, yes, it looks over a tooth, but different to all the others, in that the 0 appears tilted backwards? In the original 4 example images I noted that the gap in the waves appeared to sit over the top of the 0 like a hat on the narrow date (hopefully you can see the fine red lines in the image), unlike all the others, which were either off centre or under a differently-shaped wave gap entirely (circled). So, in your example it ‘looks’ as though it’s over a tooth, yet sitting under the wave-gap like a wide date, if you know what I mean?

Now that is VERY clever, I never knew such a tool existed! That’s just amazing! Thanks, TG

Great coin! I’ve never collected the groats, I’ve no idea why, because they’re a very impressive and pretty series.

I guess as Martin says, the printed medium remains king! Rob Page has said he plans to go to print at some point, so fingers crossed that comes to pass. In the meantime I guess there’s always the option of copy & paste or storing a print copy yourself?

Many thanks, Jerry…thank goodness it’s still out there, it’s an excellent and very functional/logical resource!

Many thanks for this…I think I’ve just shared the document you were referring to

https://britnumsoc.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/h3-booklet-rp-4th-edition-august-2020-1.pdf?force_download=true https://britnumsoc.blog/2019/12/13/a-guide-to-the-long-cross-pennies-of-henry-iii-and-edward-i-rob-page/

A little harsh, Rob…I think the main problem for many is time when it comes to collating quality information at the top level. I like your idea of copying and pasting, but that resource is equally as vulnerable, unless you’re saving it to a cloud, and then even that will disappear again one day. We need nerds and nerd sites ! Fortunately Rob Page has dropped his knowledge in a hopefully more permanent location! https://britnumsoc.blog/2019/12/13/a-guide-to-the-long-cross-pennies-of-henry-iii-and-edward-i-rob-page/

Sorry, currently enroute but will come back to you all https://britnumsoc.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/h3-booklet-rp-4th-edition-august-2020-1.pdf?force_download=true

They’re definitely the ones, interesting.

This provenance claim in an eBay title made me smile When taking a little nose into the description I was tickled to read the following… Elizabeth I found bent as a love token Comes with provenance from 2015

Fantastic! I used to ring our local church bells…I can’t hear an old bell without thinking the same sound has been heard for many hundreds of years in some cases! As magical a sound to hear across the land as any! Happy new year to you all!

Ok, so a Christmas plead, relying on your trusted good judgement! I have a conundrum in that I’ve set myself a silly OCD challenge to run a series of Victoria pennies along the bottom of my new upcoming Christmas present that holds leaves of 12 coins (so effectively looking at three Victoria coins per page), upper 6 holders for Elizabeth, next row of 3 miscellaneous, and the bottom 3 dedicated to Victoria bronze pennies (I can see that having great eye-appeal ) I’m not really looking for huge rarities at this stage, just building a foundation of pennies, alongside Elizabeth hammered, to get excited by…I have F39 and F134 in UNC ‘or near so’ so far. Is there another out there to complete that first page for Christmas? Would transfer up to £300 in advance to known and respected members only…do you have anything that could be posted in time for Christmas?