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    Coo er! Maybe I should have held out for a Barber Quarter. £15 is probably way too much to pay now!
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    Ok found one. It's true that nothing online ever disappears. Worth remembering in case one is ever tempted to post anything embarrassing! This one I still have (and wear). The gold touchpiece I sold when I wanted money for a shilling! As for the evil eye, I think that's the point. It's meant to scare off bad juju! Though irl it's not so creepy as it's only two centimetres or so across. I bought it in Athens from a shop where they make them, so it's a cool souvenir too! Oops. Seem to have hijacked Patrick's thread. Sorry!
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    Only one of the Johnson Matthey ones produced in the 70s I'm afraid. I kinda fancy one of the silver Pretender (James III or IV) ones that were later made in Italy myself. As for the mercury dime .. I think the photo must be on my broken laptop I'm afraid! I need to do another photo session at some point. Unfortunately I'm feeling lazy!
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    Ah, touchpieces are still on the 'wants' list I'm afraid Debbie. Unless you count a Mercury dime, pierced as an amulet. My collection is more the odd things I've made, or picked up like religious medallions. This sort of thing:
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    And another:
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    Hi Simon and welcome. You'll certainly find plenty of the numismatic side here! Silver stacking .. less so. Mainly because, unlike the US, there's no silver in our circulating coinage to pick out sadly! Which isn't to say we're averse to the shiny stuff!
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    Ah, but I pay nothing, apart from a few pence if I overdraw which probably works out at less than 50p a year Dave. Presumably I am subsidised by people who pay larger fees and I know it's not actually free. Just it's not me that pays! I think this is where the UK banks justify then charging more for what they view as 'non-standard' services. But £25 for a £45 purchase makes no economic sense! If they charged a couple of quid I'd probably accept that (as, I imagine, would many others). In the long run I suspect they'd make more money charging less as you'd have to be pretty desperate to pay the current fees, but the occasional £2-£3 doesn't seem too bad. Hence PayPal have managed to expand beyond ebay. I did hear that we (UK) are pretty much alone in having 'free' personal banking and that it will have to change eventually. But I suspect there will be some resistance, even though it would be fairer to pay for what you use.
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    There are a few people who know a bit about ancients here, though the main interest seems to be machine made pre-decimal coinage (from the late 1700s to the 1970s ish).
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    I'm torn between replying "How would the taxi go with only one front wheel?" and "once you get the elephants out" Though the latter would have been better if you'd asked about a Mini!
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    Quite. I can transfer money to other UK banks for nothing. OK, maybe a small charge might be justified for European transactions. But I don't really see why it's so much. As for Scottish independence, well, it'll be Mel Gibson all over again if they try to charge £25 every time someone wants to transfer money from Greenwich to Glasgow!
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    Cool! Have you decided how you are going to store and show off your coins Dan?
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    Oh, yes. And welcome back Debbie! (Did you see I have started a little sideline collection?!) Not lurv tokens, but .. a bit of a change from Tower shillings!
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    Mmm .. not an area I'm familiar with I'm afraid. But a quick search suggests maybe 50% of the un-holed examples. So .. £10 maybe, depending on where you tried to sell it? If eBay then you'll want to include listing in the US (which I think now costs). Either a 99p start or a Buy It Now with a 'Make an Offer' seem to work reasonably well, the first being of course riskier. Or ... keep it as a souvenir? An interesting bit of history.
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    With goomolique's help I think I have solved my international finance problems. Now if only we could do the same for the UK generally!
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    No it was a purchase. Ex Alan Morris' collection. It had already been straightened a bit but was still rather creased so I didn't have to do all the work thankfully! There's probably a way to properly flatten them but it might involve using an old fashioned mangle or something and I'm not sure I'd want to take the risk!
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    Ah, only on the 'inside' Chris. The exposed areas get quite worn. And of course, it's not that simple to unroll the things without either having them just snap at some point or leaving a fairly obvious crease. Here's one I straightened a bit. Though it's close to flat again, you can still see the crease.
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    Anywhere near Białystok? But seriously, I have asked if I can just phone them and buy using a Visa card over the phone. It worked for a recent Spanish purchase, so why not? I did think someone in Europe could act as an intermediary, but it's an imposition, not to say there really ought to be a simpler and cheaper way to move money around from Britain to the EU these days.
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    The oft quoted reason is so they could be used as love tokens. But I have no idea if there is any contemporary evidence that this is true. Larger coins like sixpences and shillings are sometimes found doubly bent so that sideways on they take an 'S' shape. Certainly it would be easier to wear one on a cord like that. But then, piercing would work too ... so why roll them up?
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    Anyone else find it inconvenient that while bank transfers seem to be a common means of paying for goods au continent d'Europe they aren't in Blighty? £25 my banking society charges for IBAN payments. Which is jolly inconvenient when you want to pay for something in Poland that will cost £40 and they (perhaps very wisely!) don't accept PayPal. So .. anyone ever use something like globalwebpay.com? And is it safe?
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    I wonder if he bought them as gold? And ... this may be a stupid question but, isn't the weight (or thickness) of the gold ones different from the silver? Enough that a TPGS should be able to tell the difference at least ...?
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    The tags Patrick has added are "18th century", "Lancaster" and "penny token". Though I have to say when I searched what I found were halfpennies ... .
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    Cool piece Scott! I do like the sower Marianne. Rather better I think than her Walking Liberty cousin, which just has too much cloth floating around for my liking! Especially the "colorised" versions. Poor thing, out collecting broccoli, when there was that terrible accident at the circus tent ... As for porzellan ... reminds me of Rammstein I'm afraid.
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    I should listen to my Wife. She always says that I just spend money when I have it. Finally found an acceptable Barber coin to add to the Mariannes. No, not brilliant. But I didn't want to spend MS money. Thought it was Ok for £20 delivered. And a Portuguese 50 Centavos. I have a later (smaller) Cu-Ni one but fancied a 30mm chunk of silver: All pushes the average cost of the collection up a bit, but .. well, let's just say it's still cheaper than Stuart shillings!
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    Hi Britcoinz. I only just started to get into these myself. As you say, most interest is in the US. Civil War Tokens seem to be classified by the Fuld numbering system. I think yours is something like F 209/414a but we'd need to see a photo. The SPOOT reverse is slightly rarer but only a little. (R2, between 2001-5000 rather than the usual R1 (5000+)!) So it's likely the condition, rather than scarcity, will determine the price. Nice condition ones here: http://www.cwtoken.com/Civil_War_Token_Type_Set/Patriotics/Pages/F_-_Flags.html#0 http://www.cwtoken.com/Civil_War_Token_Type_Set/Patriotics/Pages/F_-_Flags.html#4 If you can get the Fuld number for it then you can search online for similar to give you an idea on prices. Advice on posting photos here: http://www.predecimal.com/forum/topic/7880-posting-pics/
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    Nice colour on yours Brandon. And thanks for confirming the Fuld number. A whole new area for me and although I did think the token looked nice, it's always good to know I haven't totally wasted my money buying in a fit of n00b enthusiasm!
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