blakeyboy

Oh that's really top quality. 10 points.

I have often remarked to certain friends how, in the mid-19th century, people from foreign climes must have come to Britain, and been amazed and astounded at the beautiful works of art that were used as normal everyday coinage. Talk about impressing on the world just how strong a position Britain was in in those days....

You'll have to type in 'Coin looks like Jesus'... I've given up- better things to do- I just keep getting '403 forbidden' all the time... Only One Penny Defaced Coin 1918 Faded Face On Front Of Coin Looks Like Jesus on ebay

Maybe he had the time to do this because it was it was Ferrous Beuller's day off.....

And so it begins.....:)

Domain?? Geddit?? My science puns are wasted here....... Or are they?.......( cue sound of punsters sharpening pencils...)

ooh I have a tub of 1966/67's- I must go through them...!

You said 'Value' -------- surely you mean 'Cost'....??

I think Danelaw's hammered river finds are something special.... I've had some finds when hammered....

I've just noticed that the bi-metal one pound coin is slightly magnetic, whereas the two pound coins I've got lying around aren't.... any idea on what in the alloy causes this? Any members here who have magnetic knowledge as their domain? 😉

Well well well- just this second stopped reading that piece and I I had the same thought about the fake 'Kews'.... Hmm...popularising this hobby is great, but it would be nice to get away from the 'Oldest is Best' style of thinking.... maybe posted coins should really be 'notable' so they have a story to tell?

Agreed- I'm miffed that I'm having to wait while two obese acquaintances who haven't ever exercised or eaten proper food go before me. If you look after yourself, you wait longer. If you save money for old age, a care home is £1k a week. If you live like an idiot and p**s it all up the wall, care is free. Immoral. I've also found out that the people in the Vaccine group above me are Danish left-handed Methodist trawler salesmen. You just can't win.

Agreed- the only one's I've seen are way too costly for me. I'd love one in F!

Oh extraordinary!! Pun of the Year so far, Dear Boy!!!!!

I'm reading this thread and thinking "Has someone drugged my tea?"....

I feel that the 1935 is an easy find in BU- it's odd they only toned a few. As for the 'one side only' conundrum- If you were a Mint employee, and had to apply hypo to a bin full of pennies, how would you go about it? You would have an astonishingly heavy bin of shiny pennies to deal with- maybe it was applied to a pile at a time? Two pennies could be closely face-to face and end up being a cross between Obi-Wan and Darth- one of them completely on the Dark Side. Mind you, if two coins were face to face, but one was to one side, there would be the gap between them for the hypo to penetrate the facing sides, whereas when perfectly lined up, the edges would create a seal.....and three in a stack would leave one with both sides shiny....

How about her?

How difficult would it be for any existing website to start an auction section? So long as a lot of people are seeing it, surely anyone could sell items, say, at the highest bids received by a certain time and day, and that would work?.....why do we all let the vultures get their way and take as much cash as possible, often almost fraudulently? Is it inevitable when the number of lots goes over a certain size, because of staffing levels etc? Having your own auction site that only ever sells say 100 items in a month would not be too difficult, so long as you have views...

If you hit the '0' with a blunt small chisel with an oblique blow, it would cut the circle and 'pile up' some of the bronze, giving that look of the bar of a 'G'....and lo and behold, through the gap in the 'G', there is a shallow groove, looking to be a depression below the level of the field. The thinning of the 'O' above the 'bar' of the 'G' looks like the effect of localised corrosion. Maybe...:)

Alfnail, I'm so impressed with at table of figures- that's how to actually find out what to look out for! That's a lot of work condensed down. Nice one.

Maybe he uses a metal detector on every envelope that fall onto his mat....

Yes, that F77 is hardly ever seen...underpriced as well. I think mine are both about VF ish - cheap, but unlikely finds over the years.

Sounds like the 1903 open 3......

Had Ionofanes years ago-bonkers . Must come tp Darkest Herefordshire with a bottle of something good when the balloon finally goes up, and talk old gear.

I your TA10 tube aluminised or not? - there is some confusion as regards yes or no, between Pye and Marconi models....