|
|
The current range of books. Click the image above to see them on Amazon (printed and Kindle format). More info on coinpublications.com |
|
|
Coinpublications.com
Predecimal.com
copper123
-
Content Count
3,553 -
Joined
-
Last visited
-
Days Won
99
Posts posted by copper123
-
-
On 8/22/2023 at 10:15 PM, Peckris 2 said:To be honest, that's how I interpreted it as well. I can see how another view is possible - i.e. 'a woman's place is in the home', but that's not how I saw it.
Not the football pitch ?
-
19 hours ago, Rob said:Not in English either. Why are so many people bi-lingual? Something purporting to be English as their first language, with occasional diversions into English.
I started speaking klingon a year ago and everyone treats me like a bloody alien!
-
3
-
-
I must admit I really love greggs white coffee it really is superb and the price is fantastic as well.
Its a weekness of mine
-
Many high streets have had their beating hearts ripped out mainly due to covid I am afraid its done the big chains a masive favour and ruined many small cafes et
Its even worse in the bigger places like leeds and manchester starbucks and pretts gallore and don't even mention greggs
-
On 8/14/2023 at 10:22 PM, Peckris 2 said:Are you kidding? I had a Triumph Herald that was 80 horse power. That's 80 horses given a new job for just one car!
80 horses would produce one great big pile of poo hope you don't leave it for other mororists to move tut tut
-
22 minutes ago, Kipster said:Did you see Piers Corbyn and his recent stunt in a cashless Aldi where he insisted on paying for a punnet of strawberries with cash and they refused to sell them to him? The man is a weapons grade loon, but to be fair, I can see his point to some extent, even though I would have probably popped into Sainsburys instead.
The whole issue of paying with cash will become obsolete with the generations that follow us, in the same way that music tapes, betamax videos and polaroid cameras did. I was behind a bloke in B & Q the other day and saw him pay for his stuff with his watch. I couldn't believe it, but it'll be second nature to kids that are weened on ipads and mobile apps. Cash money will die eventually with the generations that used.
I bit like horses losing their jobs when something better turned up
-
Even the oldest people are now paying for lots of small purchaces on contactless admittedly its really popular but few places are refusing cash as well I am pretty sure it will take another five years or so for major refusals of cash to become the norm
-
IN THE MONEYBrits urged to check purses as rare 50p coin sells for £150 after eBay bidding war – here’s how to spot it
- Published: 19:14, 30 Jul 2023
- Updated: 17:04, 31 Jul 2023
BRITS have been urged to look behind the sofa for spare change after a 50p coin was found to be worth around £148.
The special edition coin, released in 2009 to mark 250 years since Kew Gardens opened in 1759, is now worth nearly £150.00.
Is it not amazing that journalist just keep on repeating and repeating the same old "News" after 14 years it seams that every newspaper in the uk reminds its readers to look out for these coins every six months (Which by the way dont exist in circulation anymore)
Roll on the new info about the undated 20p
-
He was wrong the smallest coin is the 16th farthing I have two of those
-
I found a yh Parthing in my collection , its in nice grade too , I thought they all were spelt PARTHING ,shows what I know , I really do need roger's book
-
14 hours ago, Peckris 2 said:I think also that especially with 6d's, they are far more protected by their rims than 2/6's and 2/-'s.
they were considered more as small change a bit like a 10p is these days , funny enough theres not a lot you can buy with a 10p
-
On 7/31/2023 at 11:16 PM, Peckris 2 said:Agreed. It's AVF/VF+ and as I say CuNi coins are usually no better than F after 15 years.
I would say thats about right ,smaller coins like sixpences and shillings tend to circulate less freely and seem to remain in better condition than halfcrowns after 15 years or so, a shilling would prob be in NVF grade
-
17 hours ago, Martinminerva said:Apparently it was found in circulation in 1967, so assuming it was actually released in 1952 that would be about 15 years of circulation. Certainly no better than A.V.F. for me. Wonder how many hundreds or thousands of people handled it in those 15 years not knowing what was passing through their fingers! Similar would appear to be true of the 1954 penny, also found in circulation I believe in the late 60's !! Oh to have been a change checker then!! (But child of the 70's unfortunately so no predecimal for me as a kid - though I did find a 1920 shilling in my change as a 5p as late as 1983 !!)
I found a 1942 florin in 1986 or so .
I suspect the 1952 halfcrown spent a long time in a piggy bank or forgotten about in a drawer well it would have been in fine or good fine with normal circulation after 15 years
-
On 7/28/2023 at 10:26 PM, Peckris 2 said:
This is the currency example - as you can see it seems to have had limited circulation; CuNi halfcrowns reached that grade in only a few years.
Halfcrowns did circulate quite a lot that coin shows all the signs of being taken out of circulation in about 1960 or so it looks like less that vf but to be sure I would have to have it in hand and i am pretty sure that will never happen LOL
-
9 hours ago, Martinminerva said:Thanks very much. The key differences I can see immediately is that this genuine one has a wide rim and the L of HALF is to a bead. The copy on the previous page has thin rim and L to gap. But the quality of the copy is pretty damn good (worryingly). Fortunately the obverse and particularly the portrait of Eddy VIII on the copies are crap!!
Edward VIII? surely it should be George VI to make it a even slightly believeable forgery
-
On 7/23/2023 at 10:50 PM, Peckris 2 said:I do remember the late 60s Coin Monthly where this find was mentioned, and the letter from the RM certifying it as genuine.
Until decimalisation was announced as a definite thing in 1966 there was very little interest in postwar coins - I can quite imagine the halfcrown circulating without much notice, not until the Check Your Change booklet appeared, and even Coin Monthly didn't appear until late 1966.
Yes this also contributed to the bubble in modern coins that happened in the early 70'sand late sixties , its easy to look back in old coin monthlies from that time and be horified at the prices
ie Mint grade 1959 halfcrown £20
Anyone who paid those prices was well and truely stitched up
-
On 7/24/2023 at 10:01 AM, Nonmortuus said:I know nothing on Pennys so advised him to join here to get an expert opinion on his coins.
bet I know what he said!
-
1
-
-
4 hours ago, blakeyboy said:Why don't people of his calibre go into politics?
You enter politics to enrich yourself and sod the rest
-
1
-
-
The males can be a bit vicious esp around chick time .
I remember paul merton saying swan upping should be illegal on H.I.G.N.F.Y. it got a good laugh.
-
-
From the news today the first kings swan upping for many years, a totally english quaint custon , who but the english could even think it up?
-
1
-
-
5 hours ago, Sword said:What happened to the shield and trident? The little dolphin looks a bit strange too.
Yes more a symbol of greece than the uk , though a few do like our waters
-
-
38 minutes ago, Peckris 2 said:The gulf stream is slowly moving mainly if not entirely due to the melting of Arctic ice. However we will never get Canada weather as our weather prdominantly is subject to Atlantic westerlies which means much milder, damper climate.
Esp in Cumbria
-
1
-
Stuff to Make Us Laugh
in Nothing whatsoever to do with coins area!
Posted
They did have a darn good try in the euros a couple of years ago .
I personally think we should pay the england team manager by results , then again if we did we would probably never have a decent aplicant