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copper123

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  1. This hoard is massive and far to large for the coin market at the moment to absorb.

    (I hope you put all notions about bidding out of your head colin)LOL

    Seriously though this ammount of coins should have been drip fed onto the market for many years and due to it being one of the most common dates along with 1891 and 1886 possably it was for a time.

    Looks like it was wraped in john minshulls lustre preserver , so undoubtedly he had a few.

    A brave (or foolish) mans buy i think


  2. I HAVE A 1991, FIVE PENCE PIECE. IT'S UNUSUAL IN THE FACT THAT IT HAS NOT GOT A MILLED EDGE LIKE OTHER FIVE PENCE COINS. THE EDGE OF THE COIN, IS SMOOTH AS YOU WOULD FIND A 1P OR 2P HERE IN THE UK. CAN ANYONE SHED ANY LIGHT AS TO HOW THIS MAY HAVE OCCURED?

    Don't shout, it's rude.

    Probably knocked up by someone in a shed as a curiolaugh.gif

    and yes it's rude to shout


  3. Going back to the original subject - the farthing , Victoria old head I am very sure these coins become more common in the higher grades the nearer you get to the end of Victoria's reign

    I have only ever had to wait to get two high grade dates 1895 and 1896 , I am quite sure that 1895 is the scarcest coin of the whole series, though 1896 runs it close.

    It always appears that the public hoarded many farthings , even the relatively unattractive dark ones , unlike the penny and halfpennies which never seemed to get a look in for some strange reason - even today a find of a small tobacco box full of Victorian and Edwardian farthings some in near mint grade (usually the later ones) is something that every dealer comes across three or four time in his lifetime


  4. If coins are acceptable is totally up to the buyer - I must admit I personally am very surprised by the sellability of cleaned coins these days , back 20 or 30 years ago the coins fetching good money on ebay, would have been considered almost worthless (mostly silver by the way), cleaned copper and bronze is another matter.

    IF YOU DON'T FIND CLEANED COINS ACCEPTABLE KEEP IT REALLY SIMPLE AND DON'T BUY THEM! :lol:


  5. There was no more chase, you just waited for the next set to appear ever few weeks. The post office was just churning out more and more junk issues for collectors purely as a revenue stream. I think coin collecting is going the same way. Who in there right mind collects modern commeratives?2

    Very true - but it is really wrong to dismiss the recent output of the mint the 50p issues have been very good and will draw coin collectors in for many years to come - the kew gardens 50p for instance. :D

    we will need new blood to come into the hobby or it will die, just as surely as collectors lost interest in stamps in the seventies and early eighties

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