The Coinery

Hi GaryD Brass 3D are a greatly overlooked denomination. They are a beautiful little coin with an interesting history. As far as I know there are 44 different variations of the Brass 3D but after finding out there are 60 variations of the Edward VII Pennie on this site yesterday when I had firmly believed there were on 26 variations. Are there more than 44 variations of the Brass 3D ? ? ? I would appreciate the opportunity to discuss Brass 3D's with you and I would also like a Brass 3D section if that could be arranged with the site controllers. Would if be possible to see your Brass 3D collections ? You can see mine on the CGS site under The Coinery and TC Coins. This is quite exciting as you are he only other Brass 3D collector I know. I look forward to hearing from you.

Good Morning Colin. With the exception of my Edward VII Farthings any other Farthings I have are available to help improve your collection. They are listed on CGS as "The Coinery" and TC Coins. Sixpences are another passion of mine and should you have any 6D you do not want you can cross reference them against "TC - Sixpences". Pete (PWA1967) berated me for amassing such a hoard of duplicates but unlike Pete I still have to work so I took my eye off the ball and as a consequence I have a redicules quantity of duplicates. You are a cruel man !! But I thank you for the soggy CGS pseudonym recommendation but I think I prefer "Lost At Sea" or maybe even "Ship wreck Coins". You will be pleased to know that Numismatic Non Nicety is not restrained to our shores. A fellow collector in Holland and also France have confirmed they have found one of my sovereigns on their beaches but neither has confirmed the UIN (Unique Identification Number) and as such there only reward will be a "Fat Lip" when I next visit them. I am beginning to see where your pre decimal pseudonym may have "arisen" from. "Float My Boat" could be another possible collection pseudonym Enough of these Salty Tales for now as I need to Cast Off and Sail to work . . . . . .

Thank you for the link IanB - an interesting read. I did not know hardly anything about The Pyx. However I don't think I will be submitting and of my 34 crowns to this process any time soon :-). To reply to VickySilver I will test my other wreath crowns and report back to you with photographs of the XRF display. One small ditty of information is that we have found tiny traces of silver in a few Edward VII sovereigns and half sovereigns.

Hi. These Half Sovereigns are listed on the CGS website. I have one and the UIN is 38541. I regret to say that personally I do not feel they are rare as I currently have 3 and the price on the CGS site does not indicate any rarity. Sorry if this disappoints.

Hi Ian, Always available to talk / discuss Pennies Guy

Thank you Secret Santa - Will you send me 4 sovereigns this Christmas ?

I lost them summer 2014. The water level on the Ouse rises and falls 20ft and I can tell you that you will need to look some where between York and Hull . . . . . Did I tell my Wife what - I do not know what you are talking about ! Would you tell your Wife ?

Thank you all for the welcome ! I have, as I am sure quite a few collectors have, fallen into bad habits and started collecting just one of this and one of that and finally after decades of collecting ended up with an ecleptic mix of coins and exonumia and one day you turn round and realise you have what my Wife calls Numismatic Addiction or NA for short. Is "NA" is also short for Nag and I dare say this as she would never visit this site :-). She dislikes coins at best and at worse Hates coins. She once questioned wether I would like to marry my collection instead of her and after considering this at length I am wondering if it possible to trade the Wife for coins ? - I will check your sites discussion threads for verification :-) My current collection covers all British denominations and my intention / goal is to vastly reduce my collection so I can concentrate on only collecting all British Edward VII coins plus regardless of Monarch all Pennies, Half Pennies, Sixpences and Brass 3D's. Now I know this sounds like I am not reducing things greatly but this really is a big reduction for me. One other coin I have a great interest in is the 1934 wreath crown and I have read some of the threads on this site about this coin and also about the fakes out there and this problem is mainly caused by these so called Museum Replicas which in themselves are neither a bad thing or illegal but the problem is that when resold the new owner may either accidentally sell as genuine or worse try to pass off as an original. This is one reason my I have some of my coins slabbed. One interesting fact about 34 Crowns is that they contain between 68% to 76% silver. I always thought they were 50% silver but after my friend zapped them with an XRF gun the metallurgic content certainly surprised me. Some reputable sellers sell these 34 replica Crowns with "Fake" or "Replica" stamped into them or something similar to the changes on the 1797 Cartwheels and there should be a law which forces the inclusion of "Fake" or "Replica" on all non original currency / proof coins. To respond to Mr Badexample I would like to explain about boats: Like coin collecting unless you do it there are misconstrued ideas about boating. A boat is a place you can escape alone or with friends on, totally away from the world enjoying Britians green and pleasant land with mobile phone firmly turned off, where you can drink Red Wine, play Backgammon and sort / examine your coins in absolute peace and quiet. The only usual disturbance is some greedy Swans occasionally wanting a free food handout. One cautionary tale about boats and coins is that whilst we all know coins sink I once thought that slabbed coins would float so instead of working upon my coins down below in the boat I happily sat on the back in the sun and to my cost several slabbed coins ended up in the River Ouse. The sovereigns are still languishing at the bottom of the river but to my joy the half sovereigns floated. So maybe slabbed Farthings and Silver 3D's will float as well. Let me know Normally people say Don't Try This At Home - I would strongly recommend you DID try floating your slabbed coins in the sink at home as the majority will sink. Again thank you for the welcome and I look forward to enjoying this site, the knowledge I will acquire and the banter I am sure is yet to come.