Chris Perkins

That's a Maundy penny.

I have a feeling that Spink will probably turn their noses up at it! That seems to often be the trend with 'cheap' coins. I expect their costs in Bloomsbury are pretty high so they naturally will want to concentrate on expensive items/collections etc. Maybe we'll be surprised. So it was a 1926 Modified Effigy coin was it? That would be worth around £30 in average condition, but most 1926 coins are very common. And like I always say to people..... Don't think that ebay is the be all and end all for selling coins. Often I've bought coins or offered to buy coins for more than they have sold on ebay.

As an unlisted variety it's all down to what someone would pay for it.

All silver threepences are silver (because they stopped making them in 1944/45). For all the other silver coins, only those that are dated 1946 or earlier contain silver. 1947 onwards are a copper and nickel alloy (same as new 'silver' coins).

I'd scrap 'em. There isn't enough time in the world to list each average 3d individually. I'd offer 10x face value for 1920 - 1946 and 20x face value for pre 1920. The modern decimal face value of a 3d is 1.25p (6d = 2.5p, Shilling = 5p, Florin = 10p, Half Crown = 12.5p).

Well if you paid £80 for it from that certain gentleman in Notting Hill, then I do need to make sure that price goes up a bit in the next edition! I don't see how a population figure can make it worth £200 when they have only graded 7 of them!

Hmmm. It's not that rare is it, but perhaps my BU price is a little low. What does UNC80 equate to on the Sheldon scale? UNC80 can't mean BU can it? And who's price is £200. Is that would they estimate it would sell for? Is that what they would pay for it?

Then you're mad! Take the money and run, tomorrow is another day.

I sold one for £720 so it was probably me! Recently I have a buyer at £650, so I'd buy for £550.00. That's a fair deal and I'm really quick.

With Ebay though you can never really tell for sure if the sales go through. But, ok, £550. How does that sound? Instant cash upon receipt.

I currently pay £450 for them.

I've put that in the ebay thread! Looks a bit ole dodgy to me. Could be a forgery, I wouldn't want it. It was over £100 earlier and now it's gone down to £25....perhaps the bidders saw the other thread!

Non coin people would probably see your library list and shout: Pot, kettle. Kettle, pot! ;-) I think that Davies is available new. At least mine looks pretty new and I seem to remember buying it new. It's a first edition and was printed in 1982 (re-printed?).

Me too, it's a complete load of tosh without exception! I think I've aired that opinion often enough. Essentially they are not coins, they have become medals. 'Coins' made off-metal on purpose with no intention of them ever being circulated as money. Stupid designs commemorating stupid things that are not worthy of being commemorated.....and that no one really cares about (especially on the 50p - I repeat: 'what a load of tosh'). And they are specially packed in little box with a numbered certificate that might as well say 'Well done on buying this novelty medal, it'll never be worth anything like what you paid for it'. To summarise: More Tosh than a 1990s episode of The Bill!

I think that even if they did do away with F, VF, etc prefixes and just used numbers that someone somewhere would translate them to what they are on the usual F, VF etc scale (they'd probably have to translate the numbers for people themselves). People are simply very used to the established scale and with everything else that isn't slabbed being graded using said established scale it's silly to start grading things using just numbers. We need our F, VF, EF, UNC!

And talking of rare pennies, I have an 1849 winging it's way to me as we speak. Looks around Fine.

I got a 2009 coin in the Czech Republic last weekend! A 2 Kc from a Billa Supermarket. It looks like it's been worn on a camel foot and marched through the sahara already!

You're plain crazy! It could have simply been in a different environment and toned differently. Or it may be a slightly different metal mix (they made enough of them to not have been able to make all the blanks in one go).

And before Gouby they were published in 'British Silver Coins Since 1816' by Peter Davies.

This has been brought to my attention recently as a fake: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...em=230360894117 Certainly looks a bit odd around the date, and the surfaces are odd too.

I've moved it to the right place! But, you really have to do better than 'I've got a coin with xxxx Emperor/King on it, what's it worth?'. What about perhaps mentioning the denomination, or the size, metal type and perhaps even a date if you really want to go to town!! That helps because it means people don't have to waste their time asking.

Yes, I have lots of fakes from that era. Some are good but clearly not official dies. And others are so good that either the forger was as talented as Wyon/Briot/Crocker/Simon etc, or they were nicked dies!! I wonder if they were stolen some time afterwards when the dies would have no longer been in use. During a later reign.

Bronze pennies are usually still worth pennies, unless they are better than average. Older ones (1860s to 1880s approx) can be worth up to 50p each if they are all readable. An 1896 Crown in the condition you describe would be worth about £5.00.

100% a contemporary fake! Fakes from that era (1816 to 1820) are very common. Usually they are copper of brass coins covered with a thin silver wash.

Yes, you're right. £200 was an awful lot of money 50 years ago (when a new large saloon Austin A55 was £685... in 1958).