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Yes regularly, and it's getting harder to find 'old' 10p pieces in bags now, let alone 1992. Last time I got £50 worth, walked home with them in my pockets without checking there and then weighing down my jacket, only to find they were all newly minted 2015s!!!

Anyone? Still searching in change without joy and the 'old' 10p are getting more scarce as they're being replaced with the new alloy.

So, what are your numismatic hopes and dreams for the new year? For me, it's numismatically nothing out of this world, but I'm specifically after a high grade young vic half crown, a gothic florin and "a Briot"! Wishing you and yours a good one!

Thanks all

Hi guys, what literature would you recommend regarding hammered coinage to cover the reigns of the Normans through to Plantagenets? I've seen North but is that a good reference point? I've read Chris' England's Striking History but would like something a bit more detailed now Cheers

I see that they have now got 5 commemorative £2 coins. They're milking it out of every possible orrifice!

Hi Rob, so will the next meeting be 2 November? We're quite new in Manchester so not too familiar with Heaton Moor but living just over the other side of the A34 it shouldn't be too hard to find. What's next months topic (sorry if I've missed that somewhere on here)?

Hi all, what areas would people say are currently undervalued? I remember reading somewhere a while back somebody commented they thought George V silver, but can't find that so may be wrong. Why would George V be undervalued but not George VI for example? Cheers

Thanks everyone for your really helpful comments. I do like robs suggestion of buying what takes my fancy. I think my 'problem' goes back to when I was about 12, I was into stamp collecting. I went to a stamp club and presented my collection and quite literally got told off for not having a theme (eg flowers / militaria) and that's stuck with me! It also put me off stamps!

Thanks for your thoughts. I was asking because,I'm STILL struggling to find a focus and was trying to identify other possible options where I may 'get more bang for my buck'. I really like half crowns but obviously these can be prohibitively expensive

I fully take on your point and wasn't suggesting that decimals are the way for dealers (eBay hobbyist dealers - maybe) to go, but was simply trying to make the point that just because decimal werent seen as true coins by some collectors doesn't make them any less valid as a collectible.

For me, Rob really has hit the nail on the head. Still a novice, I currently don't have the time to be able to really get my head around the varieties (let alone remember them) of predecimal coins. However with decimals it's easy, it's in your face, because that's what you handle on a daily basis, indeed it's all I've handled all my life (save foreign dosh of course). However still trying to trace down a 1992 dot to dot 10p I have started to understand and learn the jargon, of say 'bead to I for instance' and can easily and cheaply compare wire rim to broad. Similarly, I'm trying to get a 1999 £2 in as close to uncirculated condition as possible (I actually think I have at £28 and have been meaning to post it up here) and so with decimals, in many ways you have the thrill of the chase that you don't otherwise get from pre-decimals. Equally you can easily learn and understand the subtle differences in hand as opposed to reading about them in a book (as I couldn't afford to buy multiple varieties of a predecimal coin, just to compare them in hand). I also think there is an inherent snobbery from some predecimal collectors and dealers, much the same as people who stop liking a band because they become popular. I think anybody who gets in to coin collecting via buying royal mint specials or through the coin hunt folders should be encouraged and supported not poo pooed because ultimately a percentage will make the transition into predecimal, and indeed, in another 40yrs time unless a coin collector, nobody will have any knowledge of what a farthing etc. is. Anyway, that's my musings over and done with

Good point, I was typing in haste whilst in the queue at Costa and wasn't really thinking. Thanks Rob, have just sent payment! Very excited now. ?

Hi rob, it's where the 1 in 10 is aligned with a dot, as is the L and I in Elizabeth on 1992 10p pieces with a broader rim as opposed to a wire rim. Thanks Richard

Didn't they say the same about the underground £2 coins that a few (35k?) would be randomly released from tube ticket machines. Which they were, and now mintage is at around 1.5m!

Back to the quiz question: castle Cary, langport, crewkerne, ilminster, Taunton?

Prophetic!! ?

Good advice re collecting from circulation, however my fiancé has been trying to get taekwondo and football from circulation (her last two) for several months. We'd resorted to withdrawing large sums of 50p pieces from the bank without much joy. In the end I bought them off ebay for about £1.50 each incl P&P. I think the trouble is that the majority have now been snapped up! Commonwealth 50p are easy as muck and I also picked up my first Kitchener £2 yesterday! Happy days!

Good thinking - thanks

Just an update on my sale through the GSP but my buyer has received the item even praising the speed of delivery!!! Interestingly I recorded the address from one source and then found a bit more info for the address somewhere else that had been missing from the first source!

hey, I've recently sold an item with some value on eBay and 10 days later am still awaiting payment. I've sent several messages asking for payment, should I open up a case regarding non payment or just leave it and advise I'm putting it back up for sale. Ideally I'd like to open a case and relist in any case (I'd be loathe to send it to them now) as I know I'll sell it again, however I wouldn't want to open a case and then have to send it to them. This has never happened to me before, so not really sure how to go about this. Any advice would be much appreciated. Cheers Rich

Thanks guys, I've opened the case - it offered me the chance to turn on the 'automated case opener', so it looks like you have to do it the first time you open a case.

I've actually sold a book to the Netherlands at the weekend through this - as a seller, you don't find out until you come to arrange postage. I was only provided with the buyers name and reference number and then the address of the company who would facilitate onward transfer which was in Normanton, Derbyshire.

Hi guys, a little while since I last posted - we've recently go engaged so money is being diverted elsewhere for the time being! With regard to the above mantra, could I ask your opinion on buying rare coins? I have a catch 22 situation going on because there's a part of me that quite likes knowing I have the / one of the rarest coin in a series (within my budget - I'm obviously not talking about the mega-bucks coins), so for instance, I recently bought a 1946 3d in AUNC however this obviously set me back a little compared to if I'd bought the same grade 1944 for instance which would then have enabled me to then buy more coins for the same outlay. I know that ultimately it's my decision, but is this pursuit foolish, or is there any merit in buying these more rare coins when budget allows in comparison to their more copious cousins? I would however like to say that I am pragmatic - I bought a 1902 florin purely as it was less costly than others in that series. Thanks for any opinions

I thought i remembered a discussion about the books, I have been keeping my eyes peeled! Yes he is fantastic!