Chris Perkins

Please don't take offence Master JMD, if I remove this thread when you have acknowledged you are aware of that fact.

Yes, and Florins and shillings were demonetised in the early 90's, (double florins, oficially never) and I'm sure silver threepences continued being legal tender until D Day, they just stopped producing them in 1945 (or earlier for Mainland GB). You should absolutely get your facts right Master JMD, before you, as a beginner, attempt to offer information to ther beginners.

Yes but even those thresholds of major re-coinages, especally the 1816 are questionable. A VF Early Milled Half Crown should have 'lost' just as much metal as a VF 1817 Half Crown. Althought the practice of grading the 2 is different, even with hammered coins, a VF EI shilling should have lost the same proportion of metal as an EII Shilling, surely?....it's just the different between weak strike and wear that gets harder the further back you go.

It could just be because banks take in the older manky coins, and many of the older coins are, well probably manky. They probably do melt the bronze down, make a small profit and then replace it with a steel one. But surely the actual cost of making the stell replacement would probably be more than the bronze value of the older one. I think you get 70p per kilo of Bronze, how many 2p's in a kilo?

The concept of grading has nothing to do with how easy it is to find any particular coin. When you have the actual coin, whatever it is, it can be graded subjectively, and the year it was made is irrelevant. An EF Bun penny of 1867 with lustre in the lower areas is exactly the same as a 1967 EF penny with lustre in the lower areas, despite the 100 years between, and the ease of find one over the other. You have a way to go Master JMD, stick around you will learn a lot.

These youngsters these days, they just seem to get younger and younger. I thought they still showed Mary Poppins at least twice over Christmas.

This is the same poll ad part 1, what an earth has a 1952 threshold got to do with anything?

Nevermind the lustre, it's the lack of wear that makes a coin UNC. It could have blinding lustre in the low parts but wear on the high parts whatever age it is!

Indeed they are, they're the best, but Lighthouse are the same!....And if you ordered from Lindner in the UK, then you ordered from a normal Lindner dealer, like I am a normal Lighthouse dealer. They do the foreign opperations cheaply by just picking a dealer in the UK to call 'Lindner UK', or whatever. The only way you can truly order direct, is from the German factory, like I do. Hence my prices are pretty damn good for Lighthouse.

Copy and paste my HTML bit above and change the name and wording etc....Have a fiddle with the size="2" numbers and look on a chart for the hex list of colours that take the 6 character format, like the #0000FF.

Dyke (careful!)

I can get tweezers too, and the Lighthouse large coin trays are exactly the same as Lindner in every respect, they stack together etc, you can't tell them apart, except for the name on the drawer handle. He's a thing that you maybe didn't know....Lindner enforce a price fixing policy and for a coin dealer to be eligible to be supplied by Lindner you have to promise that you will sell them at the price they tell you te sell them at! That's why the lighthouse ones are cheaper, I can charge what I like, and I wouldn't be at all surprised if they are even made in the same factory, for that matter. I do not supply Lindner because of the price fixing, and would only do so if I was asked to be enough people.

Banana-boat

It'd called 'Viss' in Germany, so I don't know what the Jiff people are playing at. We bought some today. (sorry Raoul for ignoring your coin, I hope you are very pleased with it!)

So it's still called 'Jiff' over there is it! That's very unfair.

(My Uncle, William Henry Perkins went down on the HMS Hood on that fateful day, I met Edward Briggs the other year, the only still living survivor out of the 6 that survived out of 1200, or whatever it was. Dad and I are members of the HMS Hood association in Unlce Billy's honour. Although my Dad is not old enough to have known him) my word, dare I... Stamp!

Oh yes, thanks, well I did start it! For a good 3 months I was mostly talking to myself, and although I am still a big contributor it's nice to know that me only makes up around a quarter of the total posts thus far.

Yes they are very difficult to grade, use the reverse too and look for hair.

Capri (not so!)

I like a nice BU dark Edward VII farthing with that wonderful tone. Very pretty, but you really have to have a perfect one in your hand. They don't scan at all well.

See here: http://www.predecimal.com/dictionary.htm It's my little general numismatic dictionary thing, do you like it? It was bought to my attention that there was be some words missing. So tell me some coin related phrases or words that you think I should add...And the definitions, and I'll add them!

I decided to Omit some specialist terms in the hope of providing a general list. Right, I'm going to start a new topic for additions.....

I have a nice little glosary too, have you seen it? http://www.predecimal.com/dictionary.htm

No, it's perfectly ok Raoul, i'd be much more concerned it it was anygood! Not to say it's particularly bad...Just not great for British Milled collectors, which is what most of my members are. Feel free to draw our attention to any related website you care to.

Master JMD has worked out the signature!