Midland Coin Fair - Suitable For Beginners?

[Midland Coin Fair - Suitable For Beginners?]

I would say yes , but limit yourself to searching through the rumage bins if you only want items under £10 - there is plenty to go at there

[Brisbane Anda/apta Coin Banknote And Stamp Show.]

I find the prize draw on entry a very strange thing - i mean surely you are either interested in coins or not - they cannot be after attracting "passing trade" as coin people look forward (and save up ) to these fairs often for months .

Surely attracting passing trade is a bad thing as they would just spoil the show for everyone else, nobody wants to push their way through dozens of people only attracted in by the prize draws

[2006 Pound Coin - Cracked Die W/blob - Keep It, Ebay It, Spend It?]

P.s The alignment of the obverse and reverse often gives it away as well , while I think it's a fake i cannot really tell for sure unless i have it in hand

[2006 Pound Coin - Cracked Die W/blob - Keep It, Ebay It, Spend It?]

i have spent hundreds of fake pound coins , there are loads in circulation BOE sez at least 5% in circ are fakes.

Why do i say it's a fake?

The details on both the obverse and reverse are indistinct and less good than u would expect a genuine coin to have - in particular the queens hair is very flat - also there is a massive crack on the reverse royal mint would spot that and pull die out of production

[2006 Pound Coin - Cracked Die W/blob - Keep It, Ebay It, Spend It?]

looks like a fake to me - so best thing to do is just get rid

[Michael Shut]

selling up and buying a nice place in spain at a bargain price if he has any sense.

[Old Time Dealers-Reminising]

anyone remember peter butterworth from knutsford?

[Did It Follow The Same Formula In The Sixties]

coins are like women then lol

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peach of a coin

[Extremely Rare Pennies In Incredibly Good Condition Given Their Age]

this is very strange he describes the coins as incredably good condition in one sentence then says they are in no better than fine grade , like i said very strange

[Did It Follow The Same Formula In The Sixties]

bet you remember the coin fairs in that pub in bolton then in the seventies , damn i cannot remember its name now but if you ever went you would have remembered the experience

[1937 Crown]

i bought a nicer a/unc for the same price on ebay

It did take a few weeks till a nice enough one came alomg - but it did eventually

[Did It Follow The Same Formula In The Sixties]

Funny enough though the 2009 proof and unc sets are very common and would fetch more or less than issue price a few years ago they are now all the rage on ebay fetching big £££££.

It is actually the circulating 50p coins that are rare , the proofs and to a lesser extent the unc sets really common.

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william silver is hard to find in nice grade - most that is around is very worn

[Global Warming]

And what has this thread to do with pre decimal coins?

[2001 Silver Penny Enquiry ?]

coins detail would not be as good if the copper plate is striped off , so i am inclined to go with you

[2001 Silver Penny Enquiry ?]

the steel core is not a possability then?

[1937 Crown]

Why not give it a miss if you think its been dipped or cleaned.

There are hundreds for sale on ebay that have not been cleaned or diped.

simples

[Did It Follow The Same Formula In The Sixties]

So I would guess press manipulation of the public and their interests in numismatic circles is more a modern thing then , it's not as though the low mintage of the kew gardens 50p was a big secret or anything it's not , i must have picked around 12 or so from change at work over the years , funny enough since the press announcement i have seen none

[Did It Follow The Same Formula In The Sixties]

Watching bemused as the revelations in the press on the undated 20p and the low mintage rare kew gardens 50p i wonder did these announcements in the press always follow the same formula , say back in the mid sixties

ie, press announces to the public that 1949 and 1946 threepence coins are rare , hysteria among the general public follows with frantic change checking , leading to there being none of the coins in circulation in three months time.

i surpose there are a few old timers out there who might remember but i am a little too young (thank god for that really , i feel ancient!)

[Ebay's Worst Offerings]

i think it is a miracle it has been identified as a penny

[Gross Superstition]

I remember in the betting for a name for prince George , "Bradley" was a 100/1 shot , prob. after Bradley wiggins

[Recent aquisitions]

wasn't he the one born of victoria , queen victorias oldest ofspring who started the first world war - a very bad man - also many believe the reporations from the first world war caused the second so in the end he was responsable for quite a few european deaths .

i do belive he retired in exile and live to a good old age as well - there is never any real justice is there?

[Gross Superstition]

name always change you just look at the names of the roman emperors in the first second and third and fourth centuries they were changing pretty rapid back then . look at the popular names 100 yrs ago and compare them to now heeps of difference .

I would emagine in another 100 years exactly the same thing will happen again.

in other words savanah , sky, peaches fifi trixabell or chantel will have died out and newer ones will have arived instead

[Penny Collectors Who Are You All]

you have bits and pieces of EVERYTHING scott