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I'd strongly recommend the Galata guide for IDing classes. It's a large A4-sized book and really helpful with line drawings. https://www.galata.co.uk/store.asp?storeAction=showDetail&stockID=19

Don't often find early milled silver, so I was happy to find this George II Shilling with the metal detector, shame its very worn, must have been in circulation for some time

you might have seen this on the aquisition of the week thread, beautiful 1937 proof crown, i love it, have now worked out what i'm going to collect, has to be the early cameo looking proofs, did they have the cameo look on any George V ? i have 2 of these now, some proofs seem frosted and others dont,

When finished a bit of mayo and some cress....voila sandwiches.

I suppose classic Britannia on cu and bronze floats my boat.1/4d's & 1/2d's 1672-1936 Scott i hope you have got the sanding belt on your 1972 proof set to make them feel at home.

I've used that method it work's. I mushed up an hard boiled egg and put it in a tupperware dish to one side then used a dot of blue tack to stand my coin on its edge. Shut the lid and watched it tone off nicely. Good cheap method.

That book has been on my "buy at any cost" list for years!

I'm told that if you put in a jam jar with a hard-boiled egg, it will release enough H2S to tone silver. I've never tried this but chemically it makes some sense, I suppose. Suggest you test the theory with a dispensable item first. I've no idea how long you would leave it but presumably this would be a gradual process.

cant be doing with all the 50ps either, don't need 5+ designs a year. post 1971 tat? my 1972 proof set disagrees.

I'm not the smartest bear or even a collector of post 1971 tat . But I picked one up back in the day for £3...BU and with potential.The design is unique. I haven't looked at it for years...I like it that much.

Cheers buddy, thats the ones. Pretty steep at that price considering you can pick them up on BINS for £74 each. Although at the rate these coins seem to rise at, they could be a good investment. I remember only a couple of years ago buying these for £25 -£30 and thinking that was expensive.

The link you want, Declan can be found here

Here are the Coinage figures, taken from “A New History of the Royal Mint” edited by C.E.Challis. 1992. page 368 Table 46, - The Coinage of Halfpence and Farthings, 1672 – 1676 [March 1679]. Source PRO. E351/2122,2123,2124; CSP Domestic 1676-7; CTB, 1676-9, 1266-7. £ s d total d 10/08/1672 25/01/1673 10,928 14 11.75 2,622,900 10/02/1673 12/04/1673 1,654 8 7.75 397,064 13/04/1673 19/04/1673 47 7 2.5 11,367 20/04/1673 20/07/1674 10,821 2 5.25 2,597,069 21/07/1674 22/02/1676 16,801 3 7.75 4,032,284 March 1679 1,409 338,160 Totals 9,998,843 This was part of a conversation I had with a former member (Teg) when we were discussing mintages of Charles II coppers. I also made a list of clearly identifiable coins taken from catalogues at the time to analyse the date distribution. I don't have a copy of the book, though others do. There might be further mintage figures listed. Using these figures inconjunction with other musings such as the info that there were 5 presses and by extension 1 striking halfpennies and 4 farthing, it was possible to produce a reasonable guesstimate of mintages.